Innovation Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

Crossover; Spokane (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This is a full-time coaching role focused on inspiring, guiding, and holding students to elite standards while AI manages instructional delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• At least one exceptional achievement in a highly selective field.
• Minimum 3 years in coaching/mentoring or related leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Conduct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging analytics and performance data to set ambitious targets and ensure accountability.
• Facilitate structured life-skills workshops for mastery, drawing on elite background and evaluating mastery through Alpha's framework.
• Establish the cultural standard each morning via focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance expectations campus-wide.
• Monitor student advancement in real time and adapt coaching approaches based on evidence.
• Develop trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards and providing motivation strategies.

Skills

Coaching excellence

Youth mentoring

Elite background

Education

Bachelor's degree

Exceptional achievement in select field

Job description

You understand that the greatest kindness you can offer a student is to refuse to compromise standards. You've succeeded, competed, or achieved at a level that most people only observe from a distance: elite-level competition, a distinguished degree from a top-tier institution, a role in a highly selective organization, or a company you launched and grew. Now imagine channeling that intensity into a classroom of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your caliber of experience in their corner, elevating them to benchmarks they didn't believe they could meet. If maintaining elite expectations for students strikes you as unreasonable, this role isn't for you.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion-based projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define the standard: someone capable of assessing the environment, establishing the culture, and guiding them through resistance, lack of focus, and uncertainty.

Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and hold students to the same rigorous standard you've maintained for yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes ambitious targets. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to launching each day with focused morning sessions that cultivate a culture where mediocrity is unacceptable.

The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning trust with students. Within a few months, you become the person they rely on to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The outcome isn't upward mobility. It's the opportunity to work with the same students year after year, remaining present as they mature. It's observing a student who struggled to make eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.

This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a means to another opportunity. If your motivation to leave your current role is the mission itself, not resume enhancement.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on authentic stories from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing the cultural standard each morning via focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance expectations campus-wide
• Monitoring student advancement in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
• Developing trusted mentor relationships with students and their families by maintaining high standards, demonstrating consistency, and creating documented motivation strategies

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching content, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; you manage motivation
• Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your focus is intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
• Supervising other personnel or advancing through an administrative track (this position prioritizes direct student impact over organizational progression)
• Attending faculty meetings or managing school bureaucracy (your time remains dedicated to students)
• Compromising standards to achieve targets (if a student achieves 99%, your responsibility is to uncover what prevented 100%)

Innovation Coach Key Responsibilities

Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized field (examples: national or international competition honors, distinguished degree from a top-tier university, role at a highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts training, or founding and growing a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation assistance available)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in elite competitive athletics (Division 1 varsity, national team, or professional level) with coaching or mentoring experience with younger athletes
• Experience in high-accountability settings such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Proven track record of youth development through mentoring outside traditional academic environments (community organizations, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
• Confidence presenting to and establishing trust with high-expectation families investing in premium private school education

About Alpha

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

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Roles with real student impact:

Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

Education work that pays like it matters:

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

A culture built for builders:

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.

Working with us

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.