Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care. Closing that gap is your responsibility. At Alpha, students in grades K–2 complete academic learning through AI-powered applications in two hours per day. No lectures. No worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops that cover public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but the most effective coaches in this role tailor it to their specific cohort and build new activities when the playbook does not cover what is needed. The remaining half of your day is spent in 1:1 sessions or small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each student toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth creates the trust required to push. Pushing communicates that you believe they are capable. A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Fall short on any one of these three metrics and you have not met the standard. In your first year, you will master the playbook; once you demonstrate that you can maintain the bar, the pathway opens to Lead Guide, where you will coach newer team members while continuing to lead your own cohort. If you are drawn to traditional teaching, prefer a curriculum that requires no interpretation, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not a fit. If your background includes early-elementary teaching with a focus on circle time, camp counseling for young children, youth sports coaching, or performing in children's theater, the final step before an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. What You Will Be Doing Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, tailoring the playbook to your cohort rather than delivering it verbatim. Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you have established with each child. Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until mastery is achieved. Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level through songs, stories, movement, and play, while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders. Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off and the adult who will not allow them to settle for less than their potential. What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering lectures at the whiteboard. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you. Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and your role is to animate it. Passively monitoring students at computers. Motivation in this environment is active, individualized, and sustained. Reducing a weekly target so a student can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is to coach the student, not adjust the goal. Grading homework, preparing students for standardized tests, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model. Learning Coach Key Responsibilities Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you. Basic Requirements Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided). Bachelor's degree in any subject. At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership). A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome. Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching. Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back. Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship. Nice-to-have Requirements Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals. Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture. Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement. Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants. 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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. 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