Overview
Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha – $100,000/year USD Jobs in Austin, TX at Crossover
Title: Early Childhood Specialist, Alpha – $100,000/year USD
Company: Crossover
Location: Austin, TX
- $100,000 annual W2 compensation, disbursed weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
- On-site role at an Alpha school in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
You are not here to teach. You are here to motivate.
The most encouraging thing you can offer a six-year-old who reached 99% of their target is to insist it's not finished. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.
At Alpha, students in grades K-2 complete their academic learning through AI-driven applications in two hours daily. No classroom lectures. No paper worksheets. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and feedback literacy. These workshops serve as frameworks, not rigid scripts—the most effective specialists customize them for their cohort and create new ones when gaps appear. The remaining half of your day is dedicated to 1:1 sessions or small-group coaching, analyzing Coachbot data, and guiding each student toward 100% completion of their weekly app objectives. With children aged five and six, energy and play are not supplementary; they are the foundation for sustained attention and learning. Warmth builds trust and earns you permission to challenge. Challenge communicates your confidence in their capacity.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app targets, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and over 90% report they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role expectations are not being met. In your first year, you internalize the system; once you demonstrate consistent standards, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct work with students.
If you prefer conventional teaching, need a pre-built curriculum delivered to you, or view warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this position is not the right fit. If you have been an early-elementary educator who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a coach in youth sports, a performer in children's theater, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through presence, play, and energy, the final step before receiving an offer is a shadow day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What You Will Be Doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for groups of 10-15 students in grades K-2, covering public speaking, concentration, feedback, and other essential skills
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to keep students on track for weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual rapport you develop with each child
- Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery assessment) for each life skill, then coaching students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
- Engaging kindergarteners authentically with songs, stories, movement, and play, while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders
- Serving as the caring adult children are excited to see at arrival AND the adult who will not accept complacency
What You Won’t Be Doing
- Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you animate it
- Passively monitoring kids on devices; motivation here is hands-on, individualized, and persistent
- Adjusting a weekly target downward so a student can succeed; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not changing the goal
- Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Early Childhood Specialist Key Responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can share of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your approach, and the result
- Able to participate in a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Comfortable allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Background in youth sports coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early childhood education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward defined objectives
- Personal track record of high performance (academic, athletic, or professional), reflecting a consistent commitment to holding others to rigorous standards
- Natural performer's energy with young children—the capacity to captivate a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and physicality
- Proven ability to transform shy or hesitant young children into confident, engaged participants
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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-5149-US-Austin-EarlyChildhood.045
