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

On-site at Alpha School locations: New York City, NY Orange County (Lake Forest), CA San Francisco, CA Santa Barbara, CA$150,000/year compensation, distributed weekly. Full health benefits from day one.Relocation assistance provided

You've reached the top of a brutally competitive arena. Perhaps elite-level sports, a distinguished degree from a top-tier university, a position at a highly selective institution, or a business you launched and grew. You understand what separates simply participating from genuinely competing. Now consider channeling that drive into a setting with K-12 students who've never encountered someone of your caliber—someone ready to push them toward standards they didn't believe they could meet.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1:1 instruction, allowing students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define excellence: someone capable of reading dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.

Your role isn't to instruct; it's to coach, challenge, and uphold the same exacting standard you've maintained for yourself. You'll invest 80% of your time conducting direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching, plus life-skills workshops. The remaining 20% is dedicated to establishing daily tone: purposeful morning sessions that create a culture where mediocrity has no place.

The trajectory here isn't about ascending into management. It's about going deeper. You begin by mastering Alpha's methods and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's witnessing a student who struggled with eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.

If you've been seeking a way to leverage your elite background for impact beyond your own credentials, apply now. If you require a scripted curriculum, a conventional classroom structure, or advancement into administrative roles, this isn't the right fit.

What You Will Be Doing

Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies individual obstacles, establishes ambitious targets, and ensures students follow through with accountabilityLeading structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than entertainment, drawing on authentic stories from your own elite backgroundEvaluating student mastery using platforms like Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches dynamicallyEstablishing cultural expectations each morning with focused kickoffs that uphold high-performance standards campus-wideCultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies

What You Won’t Be Doing

Creating lesson plans, building curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic structure manages that independently.Presenting lectures to 30-student classrooms. Your focus is intensive coaching in small groups, not whole-class instruction.Overseeing other personnel or pursuing an administrative career path. This position centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational management.Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy. Your time remains concentrated on students.Compromising standards to meet quotas. If a student achieves 99%, your task is determining what prevented them from reaching 100%.

Elite Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

Bachelor's degreeAt least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized field (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performanceWillingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Orange County (Lake Forest), CA; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CALegal right to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletesExperience in high-accountability environments such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadershipDemonstrated youth development through mentoring in non-academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)Confidence presenting to and establishing trust with high-expectation families investing in premium private school tuition

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5740-US-Pembroke-ElitePerforman.002