Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

The curriculum is already designed. The AI already handles content delivery. Your role is to help a child believe in capabilities they never knew they had.

At Alpha, students finish their academic coursework in only two hours per day through adaptive learning systems. This gives Guides the freedom to focus on transformational work: cultivating confidence, grit, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't find yourself presenting lessons from the front of a room. Instead, you'll be coaching students through obstacles, recognizing achievements, and demonstrating what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half of your time goes toward facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves coaching students both individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure each child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and leave your coaching sessions with expanded belief in their own potential.

This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver standard curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone who enjoys inspiring young learners, operates well with concrete metrics, and trusts that the right coach can fundamentally alter a child's path. If you've motivated children as an educator, coach, camp counselor, youth mentor, or entertainer, you'll discover a distinctly different educational environment here.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We conduct national recruitment, so job postings may appear in neighboring cities without a campus location.

Current positions are available in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area).

If you're drawn to a different Alpha campus, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other enduring skills through hands-on engagement rather than traditional instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child remains on course for challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass system, continuing to coach students until they show genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
• Tailor your coaching approach to meet the developmental requirements of your cohort, which might include songs, physical activity, and narratives for younger students or increased autonomy and responsibility for older ones.
• Establish relationships in which students feel sufficiently supported to push beyond their perceived limitations.
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Instructing academic content from a whiteboard. Students complete academic work using adaptive technology.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. You'll refine and customize established playbooks rather than designing lessons independently.
• Observing students as they work quietly on devices. Your function is hands-on coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing standards when students face difficulty. Progress results from supporting students to meet the objective, not adjusting the objective downward.
• Overseeing homework, evaluating assignments, or conducting standard parent outreach.
  
  

Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are enthusiastic about attending school, regularly meet challenging learning targets, and gain the life skills that equip them to flourish well beyond elementary education.

Basic Requirements

• Ready to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current positions are available in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation support is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline.
• A minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
• Demonstrated success motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your influence.
• Ease with AI-powered learning tools while directing your own efforts toward coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
• The capacity to combine warmth with consistently high expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics, children's performance arts, camp direction, Montessori education, progressive schooling, or highly interactive after-school initiatives.
• First-hand experience pursuing and accomplishing ambitious objectives in academics, sports, or professional settings.
• Exceptional narrative or presentation abilities that effortlessly engage young children's attention.
• Track record of transforming hesitant or reserved children into confident, active contributors.
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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 www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Davie-LearningCoach