Youth Development Coach $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Youth Development Coach $120,000 USD/year
Description
The curriculum is ready. The AI knows the content. What you bring is the ability to help a child believe in possibilities they couldn't see before.
Alpha students complete academic work in two hours daily using adaptive technology. That leaves Guides free to concentrate on what transforms lives: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't stand at the front delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, acknowledge their progress, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.
You'll oversee a single K-3 cohort band—Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time goes to facilitating dynamic, hour-long workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remainder is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to guide every child toward challenging weekly objectives. Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops with enhanced capabilities and leave coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they imagined.
This position isn't designed for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's for someone who enjoys motivating young learners, values measurable progress, and believes the right coach can alter a child's path. If you've energized children as a teacher, coach, camp counselor, youth mentor, or performer, a fundamentally different classroom experience awaits you here.
This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities without a campus.
Current openings exist in La Jolla (San Diego), Orange County (Lake Forest), Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu), San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont), Greenwich, CT, Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Kirkland (Seattle area).
If another Alpha campus interests you, apply regardless and share your preferred location—we'll consider you for the matching opening.
What you will be doing
- Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students in developing communication, focus, feedback, and other lasting competencies through active involvement rather than passive instruction.
- Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly learning targets.
- Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they show genuine mastery—not merely attendance.
- Adjust your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, incorporating songs, movement, and narratives for younger children or fostering greater independence and responsibility for older students.
- Cultivate relationships where students feel sufficiently supported to reach beyond their perceived limits.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic instruction at a whiteboard. Students complete academics through adaptive software.
- Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons independently.
- Observing students work quietly on computers. Your function is active coaching, motivation, and engagement.
- Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success means helping students meet the standard, not adjusting the standard downward.
- Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or handling standard parent communication.
Key responsibilities
Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are excited to attend school, reliably reach ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them to succeed well beyond elementary school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings exist in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation assistance is available.
- Bachelor's degree in any field.
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4-9 in teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or comparable settings.
- Demonstrated success motivating young children to reach demanding goals, with concrete examples of your influence.
- Comfort leveraging AI-powered learning while concentrating your efforts on coaching, motivation, and life-skill cultivation.
- The capacity to combine warmth with consistent high expectations.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
- Personal history of reaching ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your professional life.
- Exceptional storytelling or performance abilities that naturally engage young children.
- Proof of transforming hesitant or reserved children into confident, active participants.
You will be working for
Applying for a role? Here’s what to expect.
Crossover's skill assessment process combines innovative AI power with decades of human research, to take the guesswork, human bias, and pointless filters out of recruiting high-performing teams.
Chat-style
screening interview.
Cognitive 
aptitude test.
Prove real-world 
job skills.
Interview with the hiring manager.
Pass
proctored test.
Accept job offer.
Frequently asked questions
Reviews
Meet some people who've landed similar jobs
Recruitment sucks. So we’re fixing it.
The Olympics of work
It’s super hard to qualify—extreme quality standards ensure every single team member is at the top of their game.
Premium pay for premium talent
Over 50% of new hires double or triple their previous pay. Why? Because that’s what the best person in the world is worth.
Shortlist by skills, not bias
We don’t care where you went to school, what color your hair is, or whether we can pronounce your name. Just prove you’ve got the skills.
Join the world's largest community of 
AI-first remote workers.