Overview
Leadership and Growth Coach, Alpha – $150,000/year USD Jobs in Santa Monica, CA at Crossover
Title: Leadership and Growth Coach, Alpha – $150,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Santa Monica, CA
You understand that refusing to lower expectations is the most compassionate act. You've succeeded, competed, or performed at a level that separates you from the majority: professional-level sports, graduation with honors from an elite institution, acceptance into a highly competitive organization, or a company you launched and grew. Now imagine channeling that drive into a space where K-12 students gain access to someone with your credentials—someone willing to demand standards they've never experienced before. If raising the bar to elite levels feels unkind, this isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to help students complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining hours are dedicated to life skills, self-directed projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record defines excellence: someone capable of setting expectations, reading the environment, and guiding them through obstacles, distractions, and internal doubt.
You won't be teaching. The AI manages academic delivery. Your role is to inspire, mentor, and enforce the same rigorous standards you've lived by. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group sessions that identify obstacles and establish challenging targets. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills modules designed for genuine mastery, not engagement metrics. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning rituals that set a high-performance culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory is about deepening impact, not advancing into management. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person students allow to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title. It's continuity with the same cohort, year over year, as they mature with your guidance. It's witnessing a student progress from avoiding eye contact in September to confidently addressing a room of adults by May.
This position remains focused on students. They are the mission, not a career stepping stone. If you're leaving your current role for the work itself, not the résumé line, apply now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group mentoring sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability
- Facilitating structured life-skills modules designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own high-achievement background, and measuring mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing cultural expectations each morning through intentional kickoffs that reinforce high-performance norms across campus
- Monitoring student development in real time and refining coaching tactics based on evidence, not assumptions
- Cultivating trusted relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented growth plans
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curricula, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered system manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to large classrooms of 30 students (your work centers on intensive, small-group mentorship, not mass instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or advancing through an administrative career path (this role prioritizes direct student outcomes, not organizational promotion)
- Attending staff meetings or managing institutional red tape (your schedule stays centered on student interaction)
- Compromising standards to satisfy performance indicators (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to uncover what prevented 100%)
Leadership And Growth Coach Key Responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, personal development, and life-skill achievement at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At 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 roles where you measurably raised others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; or New York City, NY (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the United States
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying 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-SantaMon-LeadershipandG.001
