Careers at Alpha

Build the future of education at America's fastest growing school.

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How <span>far can students go</span> when school stops holding them back?
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How far can students go when school stops holding them back?

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. It’s a bold new model built for families who want more from education, and for talented people who want their work to matter.

  • Roles with real student impact: Currently hiring teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.
  • Serious pay for meaningful work: Alpha offers high-value, six-figure salaries for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.
  • A culture built for builders: These schools are fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. They're for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

If you’re excited by the idea of helping students learn faster, think bigger, and love school, Alpha is where you will do the most meaningful work of your career.

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Alpha gives me what I need to make students successful. I feel like Alpha would run through walls for me.
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Locations

Alpha's growing campus network

Alpha’s AI-powered school model is scaling fast, with 20+ campuses already open and dozens more on the verge of opening, including new locations in Chicago, Nashville, Denver, Miami Beach, and Oklahoma City.


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Holly Haygood
Holly  |  LL Guide and Reading Specialist
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Holly spent years helping students build skills that don’t always show up on a report card - confidence, planning, independence, and the belief that they can do hard things. But in public school, that kind of whole-child support was limited by paperwork & syst...

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MISSION

A school focused on student growth

Alpha is creating a school day with more room for students to grow. Students move through academics faster, but the real mission is much bigger than speed - giving them more time for confidence, life skills, curiosity, connection, and growth beyond the classroom.

  • Academics with momentum: Students master core learning in focused, personalized blocks.
  • More room for life skills: Freed-up time goes into workshops, projects, passions, and practical growth.
  • An authentic version of student success: Alpha cares about academic progress, human development, and students who love learning.

Alpha’s model is built for people who believe school can ask more of students while giving them more in return.

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CULTURE

Work with people who raise the bar

Alpha doesn't believe in 'good enough.' The work attracts inspiring educators, operators, leaders, and visionaries who want to be excellent at what they do, and be surrounded by colleagues who know education can be better for everyone. 

  • High standards: Alpha looks for people who want to keep improving and reaching for more.
  • Growth mindset: The best team members are curious, coachable, and ready to learn fast.
  • Shared responsibility: Students benefit when every adult around them brings energy, judgment, and care.

For the right person, this kind of culture is deeply motivating. It's a place to do some of the most industry-changing work in education, with people who really care about the outcome.

Bring your talent to a team that raises the bar.

Use technology to <span>unlock human connection</span>
IMPACT

Use technology to unlock human connection

Alpha uses AI technology to create more space for what students need from people - guidance, encouragement, mentorship, motivation, and meaningful connection. The goal isn't to make education less human, or replace teachers with AI. It's to give talented people more room to do the work students remember.

  • More meaningful student connection: Adults spend less time delivering one-size-fits-all instruction and more time coaching growth.
  • More visible progress: Students get one-on-one support that helps them academically, socially, and personally.
  • More room to make a difference: Every role contributes to a school experience designed around student potential.

For educators, Alpha is where impact achieves its highest potential. For non-educators, it's a way to bring serious talent into work that changes real student lives.

Help students go further than school has ever let them.

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Guides joining Alpha in 2026
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Alpha campuses nationwide
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Hour academic days
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Hours of life skills daily
Alpha's exclusive <span>hiring partner</span>
CROSSOVER

Alpha's exclusive hiring partner

Alpha partners with Crossover to recruit high-performing people who can help bring their 2 hour learning model to life. Crossover’s hiring process looks beyond resumes, using structured screening, cognitive assessments, practical work samples, and interviews to identify candidates with the talent and judgment to make a real impact in education.

For applicants, that means a clearer path to show what you can do. For Alpha, that means finding people ready to do the innovative work modern education demands.

Lead the future of learning when you’re hired on Crossover.

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 Edtech teams.

Chat-style
screening interview.
STEP 1

Chat-style
screening interview.

Cognitive 
aptitude test.
STEP 2

Cognitive 
aptitude test.

Prove real-world 
job skills.
STEP 3

Prove real-world 
job skills.

Remote hiring manager interview.
STEP 4

Remote hiring manager interview.

Pass
proctored test.
STEP 5

Pass
proctored test.

Final on-campus interview & offer.
STEP 6

Final on-campus interview & offer.

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