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

Crossover; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits day one

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Crossover is seeking a Performance Coach to lead coaching for K-8 cohorts at one of several campus locations, with relocation assistance available. You will run workshops, analyze performance data, and drive 100% goal attainment across your cohort.

The role requires a Bachelor's in Education/ Psychology/ Business and 5+ years in education or related fields, plus experience leading teams and using data to guide weekly objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domains.
• Demonstrated history of leading teams of 5 or more professionals, including hiring and performance-based termination decisions.
• Hands-on experience with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts.
• Data-driven approach with weekly objectives and decision-making beyond simple reporting.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour workshops on essential competencies for K-8 cohorts using Alpha's playbook.
• Conducting motivation interventions using student data and Alpha's rewards system to hit goals.
• Developing Guides on program adherence and enforcing standards.
• Managing your own student cohort alongside Guide development responsibilities.
• Monitoring satisfaction, completion, and Guide effectiveness data weekly to identify gaps.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline

Job description

• Campus-based role at an Alpha location: Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• $150,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay. Health benefits begin on day one.
• Relocation assistance provided

The kindest thing you can do for a student who achieved 99% is to inform them they fell short. If that statement unsettles you, this isn't the role for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily via self-directed AI-powered applications. No teachers. No lectures. No classroom instruction on subject matter. This structure allows you to focus on what genuinely transforms outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback practices; driving students toward complete goal attainment using live analytics; and developing the Guides who support your work.

A typical morning may begin with coaching a Guide one-on-one, examining performance metrics and pinpointing where a cohort needs intervention. By midday, you're running a structured workshop with students, executing a playbook exercise on feedback exchange. Afternoons transition to motivational work: engaging with individual students, uncovering their internal drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a hesitant middle schooler. You manage your own cohort throughout, ensuring you maintain the same capabilities you're coaching others to build.

You've likely felt misaligned in traditional education: excessively metrics-oriented, overly outcome-focused, too comfortable questioning conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be the first environment where you truly belong. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results consistently, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold excellence. Transform outcomes.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour workshops on essential competencies (public speaking, focus, feedback exchange) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook with precision rather than creating original content
• Conducting motivation interventions using student data and Alpha's reward infrastructure (campus currency, performance rankings) to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort
• Developing Guides on program adherence and standard enforcement, ensuring each coaching interaction generates clear performance improvements
• Managing your own student cohort concurrently with Guide development responsibilities
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide effectiveness data weekly to identify performance gaps before they escalated

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or providing academic tutoring to students. Academic content is delivered through self-paced applications without adult instruction.
• Creating new curriculum or developing original lesson materials. Established playbooks guide the work; your measure of success is execution fidelity, not creative innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional pedagogy. Since Guides don't deliver instruction, you'll develop their capacity for energy management, student motivation, and accountability practices instead.
• Accepting 99% performance when the standard is 100%. Maintaining rigorous expectations demonstrates your confidence in student capability.
• Serving as the campus emotional support figure. Students receive genuine connection alongside direct feedback and meaningful accountability.

Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

Execute Alpha's three core commitments for every student in your cohort: fostering genuine enthusiasm for school, accelerating learning to twice the pace of conventional classrooms, and cultivating meaningful life competencies.

Basic Requirements

• Available for on-campus work at one of these locations: Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
• 5+ years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domains
• Demonstrated history of leading teams of 5 or more professionals, including experience with hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• Record of building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, school, or initiative
• Established practice of leveraging data and metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, beyond simple reporting
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related area
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education programs, managing camps, or directing youth ministry programs at scale with cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom instruction to program leadership roles in EdTech, tutoring organizations, youth-focused nonprofits, or school support systems
• History of exceptional individual achievement — academic, athletic, or professional — early in your career prior to leadership roles
• Conviction that traditional education systems require fundamental restructuring and personal commitment to that transformation

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 $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.