Performance Coach

If you believe that the most compassionate act is to maintain high expectations rather than reduce them, this role may be for you. You have a history of achievement that few can claim—perhaps through elite-level athletic competition, graduation with distinction from a top-ranked university, employment at a highly selective organization, or launching your own successful venture. Now imagine channeling that same rigor into working with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your caliber of experience, someone willing to push them toward standards they didn't believe they were capable of meeting. If you find the idea of holding young people to elite expectations uncomfortable, this opportunity is not a fit.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to enable students to complete core academic work in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is devoted to life skills, self-directed pursuits, and meaningful personal development. On Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight—they need a credible mentor whose accomplishments speak for themselves, someone capable of setting the tone, reading dynamics, and coaching through moments of resistance, distraction, and doubt.

Your role is not instructional. The AI platform delivers academic content. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and uphold the same exacting standards you have applied to yourself. Approximately forty percent of your time will be spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching, identifying obstacles and establishing ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for true mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity is simply not accepted.

The trajectory here emphasizes depth over management. You begin by mastering Alpha's systems and earning the trust of your students. Within months, you become the person they rely on to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The reward is not upward mobility—it is continuity with the same students, year over year, as they mature with you guiding them. It is witnessing a student who struggled with basic eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to a room of adults by May.

This position remains student-focused throughout. Students are the purpose, not a stepping stone to something else. If you are leaving your current role because of mission alignment rather than career optics, submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions, leveraging Coachbot analytics and student data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops focused on mastery, drawing on your own elite-level experiences for credible storytelling, and evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass assessment framework
• Establishing daily cultural expectations through focused morning kickoffs that reinforce high-performance norms across the campus
• Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on real-time data rather than intuition
• Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families by maintaining high standards, demonstrating consistency, and documenting individualized motivation strategies

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lessons, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments—Alpha's AI-powered academic system manages instruction; your focus is motivation
• Presenting to large classroom groups of 30 students (your work centers on high-touch coaching with individuals and small cohorts, not large-scale instruction)
• Overseeing other staff members or pursuing advancement into administrative positions (this role prioritizes direct student impact over organizational leadership)
• Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains concentrated on student engagement)
• Compromising standards to satisfy performance metrics (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to understand what prevented 100%)

Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

Drive outstanding student motivation, personal growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly competitive, globally recognized field (examples include: medals from national or international competitions, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, employment at a highly selective firm or fellowship, training at an elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of professional experience in student coaching, youth mentorship, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably improved the performance of others
• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• History in elite competitive athletics (varsity Division I, national team representation, or professional competition) combined with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
• Professional background in high-accountability sectors such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Demonstrated youth development impact through mentoring in non-academic contexts (community initiatives, after-school programming, sports camps)
• Ability to present effectively to and build rapport with high-expectation families investing in premium private education

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-5740-US-Hialeah-PerformanceCoa