Innovation Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD
Crossover•Lake Forest, CA
fulltime
Business Development, Education, and Training
3+ years
You've reached the top tier in a brutally competitive arena. Maybe elite-level sports, an exceptional academic record at a premier university, a position at a highly exclusive firm, or a company you launched and grew yourself. You understand what separates simply participating from genuinely competing. Now consider channeling that drive into a classroom of K-12 learners who've never encountered anyone with credentials like yours—someone ready to elevate them to benchmarks they never imagined reaching.
Alpha deploys AI-driven individualized instruction, enabling students to complete their core academic work in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is devoted to developing life skills, exploring personal interests, and fostering meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define what excellence looks like: someone capable of commanding attention, establishing expectations, and guiding them past obstacles like resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your responsibility isn't instruction; it's coaching, challenging, and maintaining the same rigorous standard you've applied to yourself. You'll dedicate 80% of your time to direct one-on-one and small-group coaching alongside life-skills programming. The remaining 20% involves anchoring each day: delivering purposeful kickoffs that build a culture where average performance is unacceptable.
This trajectory isn't designed for climbing into management roles. It's about deepening expertise. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't career advancement. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to a room of adults by May.
If you've been searching for a way to leverage your elite credentials toward something beyond your personal achievements, submit your application now. If you require scripted lesson plans, a traditional classroom structure, or a trajectory toward administrative titles, this isn't the right fit.
What You Will Be Doing
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Innovation Coach Key Responsibilities Deliver outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill proficiency at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
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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-5740-US-LakeFore-InnovationCoac.002