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

Crossover; Clearwater (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits starting day one

Job summary

Crossover, in partnership with Alpha, is seeking a Learning Guide to motivate students across K-8. This on-site role requires energizing coaching, with AI-powered tools to monitor progress and tailor sessions.

You will run life-skills workshops, conduct daily motivation sessions, and help students reach weekly app goals. A Bachelor’s degree and 3 years of direct K-8 experience are required; US work authorization is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in any field.
• Minimum of 3 years direct experience with K-8 students.
• Concrete example of motivating a student toward a challenging goal.
• Comfort with AI-managed instruction and analytics.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts.
• Conduct daily motivation sessions to drive weekly app goals.
• Administer mastery assessments and coach until mastery.
• Adjust coaching across a broad age range from K to 8th grade.
• Analyze weekly cohort data to refine coaching tactics.

Skills

K-8 experience

Motivation coaching

AI-assisted instruction

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Coachbot analytics

AI coaching framework

Job description

• $120,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one


• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (with relocation support available)

You are not here to teach. Your role is to motivate.

The most powerful way to support a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not the right fit. If it energizes you - because maintaining high standards is how you signal your belief in a student's capacity - then continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. There are no lectures or textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that informs your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not be following a fixed script; workshops provide a framework, and top performers in this role customize them and create new sessions as needed.

A successful semester means at least 90% of your cohort achieves their weekly app goals, demonstrates measurable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and rates their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. As you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, opportunities open to advance to Lead Guide - where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort and eventually to Campus Lead, where you manage an entire school and oversee parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect a pre-built curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position is not for you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students who needed persistent encouragement, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full day on campus working directly with Alpha students.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other essential skills, customizing the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need


• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions to drive every student toward their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your rapport with each student to overcome resistance


• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery


• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability


• Analyzing weekly cohort performance data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the next week based on the data insights

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you


• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own voice and examples


• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is active, direct, and persistent


• Working through bureaucratic processes to secure resources for students in need; when a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately


• Grading assignments, running standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Learning Guide Key Responsibilities

Ensure that every student in your K-8 cohort meets their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved working with you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (with relocation support available)


• Bachelor’s degree in any field


• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership roles)


• A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result


• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development


• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes


• Demonstrated personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) that shows holding others to rigorous standards is a consistent practice, not just a performance


• Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice


• Proven success in converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged, active learners

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.

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 $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.