Description
The most accomplished leaders understand that true success lies not in personal achievements, but in the growth and accomplishments of those they develop.
If your background includes building exceptional teams, elevating individuals beyond their perceived limits, and performing at your best in cultures that demand excellence, this opportunity allows you to deploy those capabilities in service of the next generation.
Alpha students don't sit through traditional lectures. They achieve academic mastery through adaptive technology while Guides provide coaching, accountability, motivation, and essential life skills instruction. As a Lead Guide, your mission is to develop the team that executes this model—coaching Guides, cultivating emerging leaders, and establishing an environment where students routinely surpass expectations.
This position is neither instructional coaching nor classroom teaching. You won't review lesson plans or observe lectures—because they don't exist in our model. Your work centers on building a culture of excellence: coaching your Guide team, facilitating dynamic life skills workshops, and inspiring students toward ambitious achievement. Performance will be evaluated through the caliber of student experiences, team effectiveness, and your capacity to uphold rigorous standards while motivating others to reach them.
Alpha is constructing the world's premier K-12 educational experience. This requires leaders with proven track records of elevating others' performance, making data-informed decisions, and championing innovative approaches over preserving legacy systems. If this reflects your leadership philosophy, we want to connect.
This position is available at selected Alpha campuses: Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; and Santa Barbara, CA.
If you currently reside in one of these areas—or are prepared to relocate—we encourage your application. Outstanding candidates from other locations are also welcome to apply. Alpha's growth trajectory means we consistently place high-caliber leaders in roles across our expanding campus network.
What you will be doing
- Coaching Guides to reliably deliver outstanding student experiences while upholding Alpha's rigorous standards.
- Facilitating dynamic life skills workshops that build communication, leadership, focus, and other essential real-world competencies for K-12 students.
- Inspiring students to pursue ambitious learning objectives and optimize their progress within self-directed academic programs.
- Leveraging data, direct observation, and coaching dialogues to enhance Guide effectiveness and student results.
- Contributing to the launch and establishment of new Alpha campuses by cultivating a culture rooted in excellence, accountability, and ongoing improvement.
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering traditional academic instruction or subject-specific lectures.
- Creating lesson plans or developing curriculum materials.
- Reducing standards to create an illusion of student success rather than facilitating genuine mastery.
- Leading a team remotely from an office without direct, regular coaching engagement with both students and Guides.
- Maintaining outdated methodologies simply because they represent established practice.
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student consistently receives Alpha's three core promises by developing high-performing Guides, facilitating compelling life skills programming, and upholding rigorous expectations for student achievement.
Candidate requirements
- Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus (relocation support available): Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; Santa Barbara, CA
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience in education, coaching, learning and development, or a related leadership role.
- Experience leading and developing teams of five or more people, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions.
- Demonstrated success using data to drive performance improvements.
- Experience working with children ages 5-14 in an educational, coaching, or developmental setting.
- Experience building or launching a new team, program, business, school, or initiative, with willingness to help open a new campus from zero.
- Willingness to work in a school model that rejects traditional lecture-based pedagogy.
- Legal authorization to work in the United States.
Nice to have
- Experience coaching youth through athletics, debate, camps, or extracurricular programs.
- Exceptional public speaking and storytelling skills.
- A track record of achieving high levels of academic, professional, or athletic performance.
- Experience motivating teams through ambitious goals while maintaining high accountability.
- A passion for challenging conventional education and helping shape a new model for K-12 learning.
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.