Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

You understand that refusing to lower the bar is the most generous thing you can do for a student. Your background includes competition, achievement, or building at a level few experience firsthand: elite-level athletics, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, employment at a highly selective firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that same rigor into a setting where K-12 students gain access to someone with your credentials—someone prepared to push them toward standards they never imagined reaching. If the idea of holding students to elite expectations feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 learning, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remaining time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define the benchmark: someone capable of reading context, establishing tone, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and doubt. Your role is not instructional. AI manages the teaching content. You are responsible for motivating, coaching, and maintaining the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious objectives. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity has no place. The trajectory here emphasizes depth over management. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond perceived limits. The reward is not upward mobility. It's continuity: the same students, year after year, maturing with your guidance. It's observing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May. This position remains focused on students. They are the mission, not a platform for career advancement. What You Will Be Doing Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that leverage Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious objectives, and ensure accountability for execution Facilitating structured life-skills workshops focused on mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own elite achievements, and evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning via focused kickoffs that reinforce expectations for high performance Monitoring student progress continuously and modifying coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families through consistency, high standards, and documented motivation strategies What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or grading work — Alpha's AI-powered academic system manages instruction; your focus is motivation Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work is intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group teaching) Overseeing other staff or pursuing an administrative career path (this role centers on direct student impact, not organizational advancement) Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your time remains concentrated on students) Compromising standards to meet metrics (if a student achieved 99%, your task is to determine what prevented 100%) Student Excellence Coach Key Responsibilities Lead exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses. Basic Requirements Bachelor's degree At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture) At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided) Legal right to work in the United States Nice-to-have Requirements Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps) Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition 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. 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-5740-US-PaloAlto-StudentExcelle #J-18808-Ljbffr