Leadership Coach

The most constructive thing you can do for a student who achieved 99% is to say they haven't met the standard. If that thought makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, read on.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work in two hours daily using self-directed AI-powered applications. There are no teachers. No lectures. No classroom subject-matter instruction. This structure allows you to focus on what genuinely shifts outcomes: delivering high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback; using live analytics to motivate students toward complete goal attainment; and developing the Guides working with you.

A typical morning begins with a coaching session alongside a Guide, analyzing performance data to pinpoint where a cohort is underperforming. By midday you're facilitating a student workshop, executing a structured activity on feedback exchange. Afternoons are dedicated to motivational work: meeting with individual students, identifying their intrinsic drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You manage your own cohort directly, ensuring you maintain fluency in the competencies you're coaching others to build.

You've likely been the outlier in education: overly analytical, excessively outcome-focused, too ready to question conventional approaches to student development. Alpha may be the first environment where that fits. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable outcomes at scale, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour workshops on life competencies (public speaking, focus, feedback exchange) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook rather than creating content
• Conducting motivational sessions that use student data and Alpha's reward structure (campus currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% goal attainment across students
• Developing Guides through coaching focused on playbook adherence and standards maintenance, with each session yielding concrete next steps
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously coaching other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance data weekly to identify declining performance before it escalates

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or providing academic tutoring to students. Students complete academic work independently through self-guided applications without adult instruction.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson plans. The playbook is established; success is defined by execution fidelity, not creative deviation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methodology. Guides don't instruct, so your coaching centers on energy management, motivational techniques, and accountability practices.
• Accepting 99% when the standard is 100%. Maintaining the bar demonstrates your belief in their capacity to reach it.
• Serving as the campus emotional support figure. Students receive connection and support here, alongside candid feedback and meaningful accountability.

Leadership Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your cohort experiences Alpha's three core outcomes: they enjoy school, progress academically at twice the traditional pace, and acquire meaningful life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes
• Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career track record of high personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — before moving into leadership
• Belief that the current education system is broken and personal investment in rebuilding it

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4844-US-SugarLan-LeadershipCoac.061