Overview
Student Success Coach, Alpha – $120,000/year USD Jobs in Santa Monica, CA at Crossover
Title: Student Success Coach, Alpha – $120,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Santa Monica, CA
- $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- On-campus role at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
This role is not about teaching. It is about driving motivation.
When a student reaches 99% of their goal, the most powerful support you can offer is refusing to accept it as complete. If that approach feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it resonates because maintaining high standards is your way of showing students what they are capable of, read on.
Alpha students complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications—no traditional lectures or textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive constructive feedback. Approximately 30% involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, using Coachbot analytics to monitor progress and guide each toward their weekly app targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to analyzing data and translating insights into actionable coaching strategies for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; workshops serve as a foundation that the most effective coaches refine and expand when they identify unmet needs.
Success is measured each semester by three criteria: at least 90% of your cohort achieving weekly app goals, demonstrable life-skill improvement on Test2Pass, and a satisfaction rating of 4 out of 5 or higher from students. Falling short on any one of these means the role has not been fulfilled. As you consistently uphold these standards, you become eligible for advancement to Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to manage your own cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee an entire school and manage parent engagement.
If you prefer traditional teaching methods, need a pre-built curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students through challenges, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full day on an Alpha campus working directly with students. If that prospect excites you, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other foundational skills, refining the existing framework and creating new content when you identify areas for growth
- Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching sessions aimed at driving every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's reward structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal rapport to overcome obstacles
- Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students through retakes until they achieve mastery
- Adjusting your coaching methods to suit a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring energetic, kinesthetic engagement to 8th graders needing direct, accountability-focused conversations
- Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on data-driven insights
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the apps, not delivered by you
- Designing an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and personalize it with your own style and narrative
- Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is hands-on, direct, and persistent
- Working through bureaucratic channels to secure resources for students in need; when a student requires additional coaching, you decide and implement immediately
- Grading assignments, preparing for standardized tests, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and traditional grading does not exist in this model
Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities
Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to meet their weekly learning objectives, achieve mastery in each life skill, and conclude the year with a positive view of their experience with you.
Basic Requirements
- Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in any discipline
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
- A concrete example you can articulate of pushing a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
- Comfort with AI-driven instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
- Demonstrated record of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that maintaining high standards is a consistent practice, not an adopted stance
- Strong narrative and presentation skills capable of engaging a group of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to escalate volume
- Proven ability to transform disengaged or reluctant students into motivated, active learners
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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5607-US-SantaMon-StudentSuccess.013
