VP, National Campus Expansion

Crossover; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha is building a national network of schools designed to compress a full day of learning into two focused hours using AI. You will own the full lifecycle of new school locations—from raw site to fully operational campus—while building the systems that make each subsequent opening faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

This is not a traditional development role. You will eliminate friction from expansion by making site viability calls, handling permitting and construction issues, negotiating

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading at least one real estate development or construction project from site selection through opening with full ownership.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent builds with timelines, coordination, and issue resolution.
• Strong fluency in zoning, permitting, construction, and vendor coordination, with the ability to engage directly with GCs, architects, and regulators.
• Demonstrated ability to make tradeoff decisions across cost, timeline, and feasibility with clear, measurable outcomes.
• Experience improving or structuring complex operational workflows (e.g., permitting, design coordination, construction execution).
• Demonstrated ability to break complex workflows into structured, repeatable systems and improve them over time.
• Evidence of using tools (AI or otherwise) to reduce manual work, accelerate decision-making, or improve execution speed.
• High ownership mindset with the ability to operate in ambiguity and drive real-world outcomes.
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 60% to active school sites across the US and be on-site during critical phases of development and opening.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end expansion of new school locations by delivering fully operational campuses on predictable timelines while continuously reducing time, cost, and risk through AI-driven systems.
• Make high-stakes site decisions by validating zoning, permitting, cost, and timeline feasibility using structured and AI-assisted analysis
• Own multiple school builds simultaneously, guiding construction managers, resolving blockers, and ensuring on-time, on-budget openings
• Develop clear, decision-ready capital project proposals that align stakeholders on scope, cost, and execution strategy
• Lead vendor selection, RFPs, and contract negotiations with a focus on speed, quality, and cost control
• Decompose expansion workflows into defined work units and build AI-driven systems that compress timelines and improve predictability

Skills

Real estate development

Project leadership

Vendor coordination

Regulatory permitting

Decision making

Operational workflows

Ownership mindset

Travel up to 60%

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Alpha is building a national network of schools designed to compress a full day of learning into two focused hours using AI. You will own the full lifecycle of new school locations—from raw site to fully operational campus—while building the systems that make each subsequent opening faster, cleaner, and more predictable.

This is not a traditional development role. You will eliminate friction from expansion by making site viability calls, handling permitting and construction issues, negotiating