Program Director, Alpha – $150,000/year USD

Crossover; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 128,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Alpha hires Guides to implement a transformative coaching model for K-8 learners. You will mentor Guides, run life-skills workshops, and analyze metrics to target improvements across cohorts. This role centers on coaching excellence, not direct instruction of academics.

Join a mission-driven team on campus locations in Dallas, Oklahoma City, Austin, or Fort Worth, with relocation support and a six-figure, W2 salary plus weekly pay.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or related field.
• Experience leading an ongoing team of five or more adults, with authority to select and terminate.
• Sustained responsibility for learning, behavior, motivation, or growth of children aged 5–14 in a relevant setting.
• Track record of building, launching, or growing a program or initiative from the ground up.
• Proven ability to use performance metrics and data to diagnose problems and deliver results.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coach Guides to implement Alpha’s coaching model with reliability, enthusiasm, and rigorous standards.
• Facilitate life skills workshops addressing communication, concentration, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students.
• Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to pinpoint coaching needs and drive weekly improvements.
• Oversee your own student cohort while modeling coaching quality and accountability.
• Establish a coaching culture where students excel academically and develop resilience and leadership.

Job description

• On-site at an Alpha campus: Dallas, TX
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Austin, TX
• Fort Worth, TX
• $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available

The most supportive action you can take for a student who scored 99% is to tell them they fell short.

Not because perfection is the goal. Because believing in someone’s capacity to improve is among the highest forms of respect.

Most institutions shield students from failure. Alpha equips them for success. We understand that confidence doesn’t emerge from lowered standards. It’s forged when students accomplish what they initially believed impossible. This conviction informs everything we do.

Our approach is intentionally distinct. Students advance through academics independently via AI-powered platforms, which allows adults to concentrate on transformational work: coaching character, cultivating resilience, nurturing leadership, and instilling habits that produce exceptional results. We don’t require adults to transmit content. We require leaders who understand how to unlock human potential.

This position stands at the core of that objective. You’ll develop the Guides who interact directly with students, transforming them into outstanding coaches instead of traditional instructors. You’ll facilitate life skills workshops that resonate with students for years. You’ll analyze performance data to pinpoint where students or Guides need support and guide them toward excellence. You’ll also maintain your own student cohort, embodying the standards you uphold for others.

The impact multiplies rapidly. Each Guide you develop influences dozens of students. Every enhancement you bring to campus culture reverberates across hundreds of young lives. Success isn’t defined by meeting attendance or report generation. It’s defined by whether students grow more confident, disciplined, resilient, and capable because of the environment you cultivated.

This position isn’t for someone seeking to maintain the existing education system. It’s for someone convinced that young people merit more than compliance, seat time, and mediocre expectations. If you’re motivated by coaching individuals through demanding challenges, leveraging data for superior decisions, and maintaining rigorous standards because you truly believe in others’ capabilities, this role will suit you.

What You Will Be Doing

• Develop and coach Guides to implement Alpha’s coaching model with reliability, enthusiasm, and rigorous standards.
• Facilitate compelling life skills workshops addressing communication, concentration, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using established playbooks.
• Analyze student and Guide performance metrics to pinpoint coaching needs, eliminate obstacles, and generate quantifiable improvements weekly.
• Facilitate motivation sessions that empower every student to embrace challenging goals and reliably attain them.
• Oversee your own student cohort while exemplifying the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Instructing academic content. Students progress through core academics autonomously via AI-powered learning platforms.
• Developing lesson plans or designing curriculum materials. Your focus is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional content.
• Controlling classrooms through lectures, worksheets, or behavior management systems. Students drive their own learning, and you coach the practices that enable success.
• Reducing standards to sidestep challenging discussions. Rigorous expectations and authentic belief in each student’s capabilities are inseparable.
• Defining success by activity volume rather than outcomes. Impact takes precedence over effort alone.

Program Director Key Responsibilities

Establish a coaching culture where outstanding Guides reliably produce students who are passionate about school, advance through academics at an accelerated rate, and develop the resilience, leadership, and life skills necessary to thrive well beyond the classroom.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on campus in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a related field.
• Experience leading an ongoing team of five or more adults, with final or primary authority to select team members and make performance-based termination decisions.
• Sustained, recurring responsibility for the learning, behavior, motivation, or growth of children ages 5-14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership setting.
• Track record of building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, business, or initiative from the ground up, rather than simply maintaining or inheriting one.
• Proven ability to use performance metrics and data to diagnose problems, prioritize actions, and deliver measurable results.
• Willingness to work in a school that deliberately rejects traditional pedagogy.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education, directing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based organizations.
• Experience building or leading innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs outside traditional classroom teaching.
• Personal history of exceptional achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
• Strong conviction that education should develop capable, resilient, independent young people rather than simply deliver academic content.

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.

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.