Youth Entrepreneurship Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD
Crossover•Austin, TX
fulltime
Consulting, Education, and Training
2+ years
The greatest support you can offer a teenager launching a venture is the refusal to accept mediocrity. You understand that holding high standards isn't about pressure—it's about believing the student is capable of reaching them. If this resonates with you, continue reading.
You'll work with high school students who are building legitimate companies with $1M upside potential. These aren't classroom exercises or hypothetical scenarios. You'll dedicate 60-65% of your time to 1:1 coaching: pinpointing where each founder is blocked, surfacing the most impactful next step, and ensuring accountability to a concrete action plan. The remaining 35-40% is divided between academic monitoring and delivering workshops that result in practical, usable skills—not just lecture notes.
This is not traditional teaching. You are accountable for student outcomes across three dimensions: venture trajectory, academic performance, and personal development. You'll rely on dashboards, venture updates, and academic metrics to coach with data-driven clarity, not gut feeling. If a student's grades begin to decline, you step in before it escalates. If a business loses momentum, you surface the underlying issue, not the superficial one.
You begin by understanding each student's business, their capabilities, and their obstacles. Within a few months, you become the voice they trust when challenged—because you've operated under real pressure yourself. The payoff is witnessing a 16-year-old arrive with an idea and leave with a live business, the rigor to sustain it, and academic results that preserve every future opportunity.
If you've been searching for a position where your operational experience directly influences the next wave of entrepreneurs, submit your application now. If you prefer scripted lesson plans, predictable classroom routines, or roles where effort alone is rewarded, this isn't the right fit.
What You Will Be Doing
What You Won’t Be Doing
Youth Entrepreneurship Coach Key Responsibilities Propel student founders toward ventures with $1M potential while maintaining their academic standing.
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Nice-to-have Requirements
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 www.crossover.com/help\-and\-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5757-US-Austin-YouthEntrepren