Leadership Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

The most powerful support you can offer a child who earned 99% is to tell them they fell short of the standard.

Not because perfection is the goal. Because holding someone to a higher standard is one of the most respectful things you can do.

Traditional schools shield students from setbacks. Alpha equips them for achievement. We understand that confidence doesn't emerge from reduced expectations. It develops when students accomplish what they previously believed impossible. This principle informs everything we do.

Our approach is intentionally distinct. Students progress through academics autonomously using AI-driven learning platforms, which allows adults to concentrate on what truly transforms outcomes: coaching character development, cultivating resilience, nurturing leadership capacity, and establishing the patterns that produce exceptional results. We don't require adults to transmit information. We need leaders capable of drawing out excellence in others.

This position anchors that mission. You'll develop the Guides who engage directly with students, transforming them into outstanding coaches instead of traditional instructors. You'll facilitate life skills workshops that resonate with students long after completion. You'll analyze performance metrics to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and guide them toward excellence. You'll also maintain your own student cohort, embodying the standards you establish for others.

The multiplier effect is substantial. Each Guide you develop impacts dozens of students. Every enhancement you introduce to campus culture amplifies across hundreds of young lives. Success isn't defined by meeting attendance or documentation volume. It's determined by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and capable through the culture you've cultivated.

This isn't a position for someone committed to maintaining conventional education structures. It's designed for someone who believes young people merit more than compliance, attendance requirements, and modest expectations. If you're motivated by guiding people through challenging growth, leveraging data to inform decisions, and upholding rigorous standards because you truly believe in others' potential, this environment will suit you.

Apply if you're prepared to establish a culture where excellence is the baseline, coaching transforms trajectories, and students realize capabilities they never imagined possible.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and coach Guides to implement Alpha's coaching framework with precision, enthusiasm, and unwavering standards.
• Facilitate dynamic life skills workshops addressing communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students following established playbooks.
• Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to surface coaching needs, eliminate obstacles, and produce quantifiable progress weekly.
• Conduct motivation sessions that empower every student to commit to ambitious objectives and reliably accomplish them.
• Lead your own student cohort while demonstrating the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction. Students advance through core academics autonomously via AI-powered learning platforms.
• Developing lesson plans or educational curriculum. Your focus is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional content.
• Controlling classrooms using lectures, worksheets, or behavioral systems. Students drive their own learning, and you coach the practices that enable success.
• Reducing standards to sidestep challenging discussions. Elevated expectations and authentic belief in each student's capacity are inseparable.
• Evaluating success through activity volume rather than impact. Outcomes outweigh effort alone.

Leadership Coach Key Responsibilities

Establish a coaching culture in which outstanding Guides reliably cultivate students who thrive at school, advance through academics at an accelerated rate, and develop the resilience, leadership, and life skills necessary to excel well beyond the classroom.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on campus in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; or The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience leading adults in education, learning and development, youth leadership, coaching, or a comparable performance-driven environment.
• Demonstrated success managing a team of five or more people, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and difficult accountability conversations.
• Experience working directly with children ages 5-14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership setting.
• Track record of building, launching, scaling, or significantly improving a program, team, school, business, or initiative.
• Proven ability to use performance metrics and data to diagnose problems, prioritize actions, and deliver measurable results.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education, directing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based organizations.
• Experience building or leading innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs outside traditional classroom teaching.
• Personal history of exceptional achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
• Strong conviction that education should develop capable, resilient, independent young people rather than simply deliver academic content.

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-Norman-LeadershipCoac.001