Job Description

• $120,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision benefits start on day one
• On-site role at an Alpha campus in 13 US locations across CA, CT, FL, IL, and MA (complete list provided below; relocation assistance available)

AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make that child care. Closing that gap is where you come in.

At Alpha, students in grades K-2 complete their academic work through AI-powered applications over two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. You spend half your time facilitating one-hour workshops focused on life skills—public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback. A playbook is provided, but those who excel in this role tailor it to their group and create new activities when needed. The remaining half of your day is spent working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each child toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. Warmth creates the trust that gives you permission to push. Pushing communicates your belief in their ability to succeed.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for each life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Fall short on any of those three metrics and the job was not done. During your first year, you will master the playbook; after proving you can maintain the standard, the opportunity opens to become a Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum with no adaptation required, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this role is not the right fit. If you have experience as an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day coaching actual Alpha students. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-2 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring competencies, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than delivering it verbatim.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions that ensure every student remains on track to meet weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's motivational systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the personal connection you have established with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and providing coaching to students who do not pass until mastery is achieved.
• Engaging kindergarteners with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness 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.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching from the front of the room. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and you animate it.
• Passively monitoring students at computers. Motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.
• Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model.

Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure that every student in your K-2 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in 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, or Miami Beach, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation assistance provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any field.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 7 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result.
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Commitment to maintaining high expectations with students even when met with resistance.
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined goals.
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to a rigorous standard is a consistent behavior, not an adopted stance.
• Natural performer's energy with young children: the capacity to command a room of kindergarteners through voice, humor, and physical engagement.
• History of transforming shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants.

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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5634-US-Elgin-StudentSuccess.019

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