Venture Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD
Crossover•Austin, TX
fulltime
Business Development, Education, and Training
2+ years
The most impactful way to support a teenager launching a company is to refuse to accept mediocrity. You understand that maintaining high standards isn't about applying pressure—it's about demonstrating your belief in what the student is capable of achieving. If this resonates with you, continue reading.
You'll be working with high school students who are building legitimate companies with $1M potential. These aren't classroom exercises or mock ventures. Expect to dedicate 60-65% of your time to individual coaching sessions: pinpointing where each founder is hitting obstacles, surfacing the highest-impact next step, and ensuring accountability to a concrete action plan. The remaining 35-40% will be divided between monitoring academic performance and facilitating workshops designed to build tangible skills, not just theoretical understanding.
This role is not about traditional teaching. You are accountable for student outcomes across three dimensions: venture traction, academic performance, and personal development. You'll rely on dashboards, business performance data, and academic metrics to coach with clarity and precision rather than gut feeling. When a student's grades begin to decline, you step in proactively. When a venture loses momentum, you surface the actual issue, not the easier conversation.
Your starting point is understanding each student's business, identifying their core strengths, and recognizing their friction points. Over time, you become the coach whose challenge they respect—because you've operated in the real world yourself. The payoff is seeing a 16-year-old arrive with an unformed concept and leave with a working business, the operational discipline to sustain it, and an academic record that preserves future opportunities.
If you've been searching for a position where your operational background directly influences emerging founders, submit your application now. If you require a scripted syllabus, a conventional classroom setting, or a role where effort alone is sufficient, this isn't the right fit.
What You Will Be Doing
What You Won’t Be Doing
Venture Coach Key Responsibilities Guide student founders toward ventures with $1M potential while ensuring they maintain strong academic performance.
Basic Requirements
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-VentureCoach