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Senior Product Manager, Identity & Authentication
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description This is a fully remote role, aligned to working core EST hours. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid. All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes. The Digital Product team is driving the evolution of College Board’s digital assessment experience. As AI reshapes education, we are preparing students for the future by ensuring our digital assessments remain secure, meaningful, and reflective of the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in an AI-enabled world. As Senior Product Manager, Identity & Authentication, you'll own the direction of our identity and authentication product domain: - The consumer IdP - Federated sign-in (SSO) - The end-to-end account creation and sign-in experience This is a senior individual contributor role for a product leader who is fluent in platform technology. You'll set the vision and roadmap, ground it in user research and data, and work closely with an engineering team to make it real. What You’ll Own - Identity & Authentication end to end, including user-facing experiences and the engine behind them. - The account lifecycle: account creation for consumer and professional accounts, and the full sign-up, sign-in, and recovery experience. - The identity engine: the credentials, MFA, and authentication platform behind sign-in. - Federated sign-in and SSO: the SSO experience for institutional users. - Trusted identity context: the identity signal the rest of the platform depends on. - Outcomes and measurement: KPIs that tie this domain to real user outcomes. In this role, you will: - Own Strategy and Product Direction (40%): - Own the vision and roadmap for Identity & Authentication. - Define the KPIs that connect this domain to user outcomes. - Make tradeoffs across reliability, security, and usability. - Make the case for identity investments that depend on other teams. - Lead Product Delivery (40%): - Work closely with your engineering team to turn strategy into capability. - Go deep on SSO flows, account recovery, and identity context. - Run discovery and validation continuously. - Keep platform performance and reliability visible in prioritization. - Communicate Value and Build Alignment (20%): - Give clear, outcome-focused updates. - Translate technical tradeoffs for senior non-technical stakeholders. - Engage directly with users who depend on these systems. What Success Looks Like - More users who start authentication finish it. - Federated sign-in and SSO integrations stay reliable. - Account-related support volume drops. - Other teams trust and build on the identity context you provide. - Product decisions trace back to evidence. - Leadership and engineering rely on your judgment. Qualifications - 8+ years of product management or related experience. - A track record of owning product strategy and roadmap for a complex, technical product area. - Direct experience with backend, platform, or infrastructure products. - Interest in how identity and trust shape user experience. - Demonstrated use of continuous discovery. - Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. - Strong collaboration and influence across product, engineering, security, and leadership. - The ability to travel 5-7 times a year to College Board offices. Preferred Qualifications - Direct experience with identity and authentication protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML). - Experience in education or educational technology. - Familiarity with AI-enabled tools, automation, or data workflows. Requirements - A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities. - Authorization to work in the United States for any employer. - Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies. - Clear and concise communication skills. - A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth. - A drive for impact and excellence. - A collaborative and empathetic approach. About Our Process Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days. What We Offer At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck—we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - The hiring range for this role is $120,000 – $190,000. - Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and qualifications. - We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness and transparency.
Information Analyst
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description The Information Analyst is responsible for the effective operation and continuous improvement of enterprise platforms and application workflows, ensuring processes are clearly defined, data inputs meet established quality standards, and system behaviors align with business and technical expectations. This role focuses on analytical ownership of platform behavior, validation strategy, and workflow design. The Analyst partners with engineering, product, and business teams to evaluate system performance, define functional expectations, and inform decisions that ensure systems operate predictably and scale effectively. This is a hands-on analytical role that exercises independent judgment in analyzing system behavior, determining validation approaches, and driving improvements that enhance platform reliability, transparency, and operational efficiency. What You’ll Do - Operational Analysis & Platform Support (20%): - Own the analysis of system workflows, defining inputs, outputs, dependencies, and expected behaviors to ensure alignment with business and technical requirements. - Identify, define, and maintain system behaviors, constraints, and edge cases, establishing clarity on how platforms are expected to operate. - Evaluate platform changes and determine downstream impact, providing recommendations that inform cross-functional decisions and release readiness. - Approve or reject configuration changes prior to release, ensuring consistency with defined system logic and operational standards. - Leverage AI-assisted tools to enhance workflow analysis and impact assessment, applying independent judgment to validate outputs and ensure accuracy. - Data & Process Validation (20%): - Own validation of structured data inputs used by enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with defined quality standards and business requirements. - Evaluate datasets, configurations, and system outputs to determine accuracy, completeness, and consistency, applying independent judgment to identify risks and gaps. - Lead impact analysis when application logic or workflows change, assessing downstream effects and recommending appropriate actions. - Identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of data inconsistencies and defects in partnership with engineering and product teams. - Define and enforce standards for workflow design, validation, and documentation across supported platforms. - Leverage AI-enabled analytical tools to detect patterns, anomalies, and systemic issues, informing decisions that improve data reliability and process effectiveness. - Quality Assurance & Testing Support (25%): - Define test strategies, scenarios, and validation criteria to ensure platform changes meet functional and operational requirements. - Lead functional and regression validation efforts for platform updates, ensuring alignment between expected and actual system behavior. - Evaluate and document system outcomes against defined expectations, identifying gaps, risks, and areas requiring remediation. - Identify patterns in recurring issues, conduct root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions in partnership with technical teams to improve system reliability. - Own the development, quality, and lifecycle of user-facing documentation that defines system processes, workflows, and expected behaviors. - Establish and maintain standards for documentation structure, clarity, and accessibility across internal knowledge repositories. - Serve as a subject matter expert on platform functionality and workflow design, advising stakeholders and providing guidance on system capabilities and requirements. - Define and communicate integration and testing expectations, ensuring alignment across cross-functional teams. - Manage traceability across workflows, requirements, tickets, and releases to ensure transparency and alignment throughout the development lifecycle. - Own release readiness from a documentation and validation perspective, ensuring all required materials, evidence, and configurations meet defined standards prior to deployment. - Author and approve release communications, ensuring stakeholders are informed of relevant changes and impacts. - Oversee post-release issue identification and resolution, ensuring remediation efforts are prioritized and completed effectively. - Provide formal validation sign-off for platform releases, including identifying conditions under which releases should not proceed. - Continuous Improvement (5%): - Identify, prioritize, and drive initiatives that streamline processes, reduce operational friction, and improve platform effectiveness. - Evaluate workflows and documentation practices to determine improvement opportunities and implement solutions with measurable impact. - Assess and apply AI-enabled tools to enhance analytical efficiency, documentation quality, and validation approaches, exercising judgment to ensure responsible and effective use. Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in information systems, Data Analytics, Business, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience). - 2–5 years of experience in an analyst, operations, QA, or technical support role. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Experience working with structured and semi-structured datasets (relational tables, JSON/XML, log files) stored in systems such as Amazon S3 and DynamoDB, extracting insights to support reporting and analysis. - Skilled at reviewing system-generated outputs — messages, results, and data records — to check accuracy, catch inconsistencies, and confirm they meet defined quality standards. - Experience supporting application testing or QA efforts in complex environments, including distributed systems and integrated data pipelines. - Comfortable reading logs, schemas, configuration files, or structured/semi-structured formats (e.g., CSV, JSON). - Ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams. - Strong written communication skills and attention to detail. - Ability to manage multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment. - Curious and growth-oriented: Genuine curiosity about emerging technologies (especially AI-driven tools), comfortable learning new digital tools independently and proactively, and committed to continuous improvement through feedback and iterative learning. - Collaborative communicator and problem-solver: Clear, concise communicator who works effectively across differences, drives impact through data-informed decisions, and prioritizes what matters most while fostering a culture of shared success. - Comfortable leveraging AI-enabled tools to support analysis, documentation, and quality validation while exercising sound judgment and human review. - A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work. - Authorization to work in the United States for any employer. Nice to Have - Experience in AWS or cloud-based environments. - Familiarity with Agile/Scrum environments. - Exposure to automation tools or testing frameworks. - Experience supporting enterprise platforms or internal tooling. Benefits - At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck—we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - The hiring range for this role is $80,000–$130,000. - Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. - We aim to make our best offer upfront rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. - We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live. - You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Company Description This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes. This is a full-time position.
Senior Analyst, Financial Operations
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description The Senior Analyst, Financial Operations provides direct support to the Senior Director, Finance, in efforts to achieve organization-wide financial and business performance objectives. Chief responsibilities include: - Providing support for the monthly close process by way of journal entries, account reconciliations, accruals, deferrals, chargebacks, payment tracking, supporting budgetary analyses, and forecasting. - Supporting multiple divisions including Learning and Assessment, BigFuture, the Office of the CEO, Operations, and Corporate & Finance. In this role, you will: - Month-End Close Support (35%): - Provide support to the Senior Director by assisting with all phases of the close process which includes accruals, reconciliations, monthly reporting, actual/budget variance analysis, and resolution. - Extract and analyze data from multiple sources, identifying inconsistencies and following up on resolutions along with supporting documentation for journal entries. - Prepare monthly journal entries in accordance with College Board guidelines, ensuring all entries contain accurate descriptions and appropriate supporting documentation. - Monitor activity reports across supported programs and products to identify variances and help ensure an accurate monthly close process. - Review and approve requisitions, Non-PO supplier invoices, and check requests. - Year-End Close Support (35%): - Research program and vendor invoices, review purchase order reports, and establish processes for identifying unrecorded liabilities. - Conduct meetings with program counterparts to resolve inquiries and prepare appropriate revenue and expense accruals. - Back up to the Capitalized Software calculations and stay up to date with items capitalized, any changes in methodology, and data issues as they arise. - Responsible for monthly revenue and expense accruals and deferrals including researching invoices from programs and vendors. - Support External and Internal Audit Processes. - Accounting Operations Efficiency Promotion (30%): - Collaborate with the Operational Excellence and Strategic Sourcing teams to refine and improve the open purchase order closure process. - Serve as point for the College Board Cares benefit, working with the Talent and OCEO teams to set up the charities and derive contributions. - Perform special projects and assignments for the finance department as assigned. Qualifications - Five to seven years of directly related, progressively responsible work experience in a financial operations management environment. - Thorough knowledge of financial and general accounting principles. - Strong organization and prioritization skills. - Strong interpersonal skills with experience providing leadership and direction in financial analysis and planning. - Adept problem-solving skills, including using data to inform decisions and actions. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to action. - Excellent Excel and Word skills. - Experience with strategic planning, financial systems, product financial analysis, budgets, and general accounting functions required. - Workday ERP skills are preferred. - CPA, Masters in Accounting, or MBA is preferred. - The ability to travel 1-2 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business. Requirements - A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work. - Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions. - Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal. - A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth. - A drive for impact and excellence. - A collaborative and empathetic approach. - Authorization to work in the United States. Benefits - A meaningful career and a supportive team. - A comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - Fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - The hiring range for this role is $64,000-$100,000/year. - Salary adjustments by location to ensure fairness. - Open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and work culture throughout the hiring process.
Security Risk Analyst
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Role Description As a Security Risk Analyst, you will have the critical role of being responsible for evaluating and managing exceptions to IT security policies, for managing the Organization’s Risk and Control Issues Register (Risk Register), and for developing reports and metrics. Your strong technical communication and negotiation skills will help you build relationships and collaborate with diverse stakeholders and reduce risk to the organization and ensure compliance. Under the direction of management, you will manage the Risk Register and perform security policy exceptions to help the College Board understand its critical risks. - Manage the Risk Register (20%): - Leads the management of the issues and risks and quickly escalates any untimely completion of audit actions. - Works independently to communicate risks and works with others to problem-solve risks to tolerance levels based on data and evidence. - Maintains data quality of Risk Register and executes any required data clean-up exercises. - Understands College Board work to be able to drive Risk or Control Owners to ensure consistent application of policies and standards. - Raises awareness about Risk & Control Issues, Policy exceptions, and available risk reduction options. - Fosters a culture of risk awareness and compliance within the technology department and across the organization. - Manage Policy Exceptions (65%): - Independently analyzes policy exception submissions and provides risk assessment reports for critical service lines, applications, and infrastructure hosted on-prem and in the cloud. - Evaluates and manage exceptions to IT security policies. - Manages materials for the Exception Review Board and presents exception information to executive leadership and senior team members. - Maintains an up-to-date knowledge and understanding of IT security policies and principles. - Maintains a customer-focused attitude in all interactions with customers and colleagues. - Support Vendor Risk Management (10%): - Support the Vendor Risk Management program by understanding policies and procedures. - Perform New Vendor Risk Assessments and Reassessments. - Serve as backup to the Sr. Risk Analyst. - Manage Metrics and Reporting (5%): - Provides weekly and monthly reporting for the Risk Register and policy exceptions. - Produces trending metrics and escalate exceptions. - Performs other duties as assigned. Qualifications - 5-7 years of experience managing or supporting IT Security Risk and Control Risk Register and processing policy exceptions. - Strong understanding of risk management techniques such as risk identification, risk scoring, risk mitigation, and risk tracking. - Proven ability to lead conversations balancing risk and multiple business needs that result in positive outcomes with multiple stakeholders. - The capacity to assess risk information and make risk recommendations independently. - Strong organization and prioritization skills and the proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, both independently and as a member of the team. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills. - Experience with governance, risk, and compliance tools (e.g., OneTrust) preferred. - Experience with information security and privacy frameworks such as ISO 27001, COBIT, NIST-CSF, NIST 800-53, GDPR etc. - Current Information Security Certification (e.g., CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, or related security certification) preferred or the ability to attain one within 6 months of hire. - Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, IT management or four years equivalent IT and security industry experience. - Vendor Risk Management policies and procedures. - Bachelor’s degree required. - The ability to travel 2-4 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business. Benefits - At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - The hiring range for this role is $72,000–$120,000. - Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. - We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. - We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live. - You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
Senior Director, State Policy & Strategy
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description The Global Policy & External Relations Policy and Advocacy team shapes the policy, partnership, and external conditions that allow College Board programs to reach more students and retain public trust. The State Policy and Strategy function is a new state growth strategy vertical designed to move College Board from reactive state work to a disciplined, proactive model. In this role, you will: - Build and Own Regional State Strategy: - Develop and maintain a current fact base for every state in your regional portfolio. - Translate that intelligence into concise state plans. - Recommend priority states and plays to the Executive Director. - Connect regional strategy to College Board priorities. - Align regional planning to College Board planning cycles. - Translate Policy Priorities into State Strategy and Rapid Response: - Translate policy priorities into regional state strategies. - Identify where state conditions create the strongest opportunities. - Triage bills, regulations, and policy signals during legislative sessions. - Adapt arguments and policy options to state context. - Drive Cross-Functional Alignment and Execution: - Serve as the regional strategy lead for state plays requiring coordination. - Create clean handoffs to execution partners. - Maintain trackers, dashboards, and executive updates. - Engage externally with legislators and partners. Qualifications - 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in education policy, state strategy, public affairs, government, advocacy, management consulting, or a related field. - Working fluency across K-12, higher education, workforce, assessment, CTE, credentialing, and state legislative environments. - Strong record leading complex, multi-state policy work. - Exceptional strategic judgment. - Excellent writing and synthesis skills. - Experience with legislative session rapid response and external advocacy. - Proven ability to drive alignment across organizations. - Established presence and familiarity with the political landscape of one of the four regions (Northeast, West, Midwest, or South/Southwest) preferred. - Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred. - Ability to travel approximately 6–10 times per year. - Authorization to work in the United States. Requirements - A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities. - Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies. - Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal. - A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth. - A drive for impact and excellence. - A collaborative and empathetic approach. Benefits - Meaningful career and supportive team. - Comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - Fair and competitive compensation based on qualifications and experience. - Transparent conversations about compensation and benefits. Company Description At College Board, we are a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.
Executive Director, EaR Strategy & Alignment, Public Affairs
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description As the Executive Director, EaR Strategy and Alignment, Public Affairs, you are a policy communications strategist who knows how to build a campaign around an idea, not just a product. You bring deep experience marshaling media, evidence, and stakeholders to advance a specific policy or legislative agenda, and you're comfortable doing that work in complex, high-visibility, and often politically charged environments. You serve as the primary EaR integrator for policy, research, and stakeholder initiatives, embedded across Global Policy and External Relations (GPER), Learning and Assessment (L&A), Higher Education, Membership, and Access (HMA), and other College Board teams with policy or external affairs priorities. In this role, you will: - Serve as the Single-Threaded EaR Leader for Public Affairs - Own coordinated strategy and measurable outcomes across Public Affairs disciplines, while discipline leaders retain execution ownership within their respective domains - Act as the primary day-to-day EaR contact for GPER, L&A, HMA, and other policy-adjacent teams - Operate as a senior embedded partner within divisional leadership teams - Provide strategic counsel on communications approach, sequencing, and risk - Escalate conflicts or alignment gaps as needed and ensure timely resolution Lead Integrated Policy and Research Communications Strategy: - Translate legislative agendas, regulatory developments, research roadmaps, and stakeholder priorities into coordinated communications campaigns - Develop structured campaign plans that align messaging, media strategy, executive positioning, stakeholder sequencing, and risk mitigation - Identify opportunities to proactively shape policy and research narratives in priority markets and moments - Align communications strategy in support of priority partnerships, endorsements, and sponsorships that advance policy, research, or stakeholder objectives - Ensure communications strategies evolve as policy, regulatory, research, or partnership dynamics shift - Lead special initiatives ranging from program launches to enterprise pilots Orchestrate the EaR Studio Model: - Define business needs and align them to a flexible bench of EaR domain experts functioning as a Studio, including media relations, messaging and editorial, insights and intelligence, digital amplification, creative, and copyediting resources - Ensure the right expertise is engaged at the right time based on program priorities - Ensure efficient internal communications and knowledge sharing within and across Studios - Maintain momentum as policy, research, or stakeholder priorities evolve and ensure changes are reflected across EaR workstreams Leverage Intelligence and Foresight to Strengthen Impact: - Integrate policy landscape analysis, media intelligence, stakeholder insights, and narrative tracking into campaign planning - Anticipate emerging risks or moments of heightened scrutiny and coordinate proactive or rapid-response strategies - Provide divisional leaders with clear insight into external dynamics and communications implications Drive Execution, Measurement, and Reporting: - Provide high-level project management across initiatives to keep work on pace - Establish clear goals, metrics, and reporting tied to business and EaR outcomes - Own impact reporting; Monitor performance and recommend adjustments to improve results - Develop and implement effective processes, tools, and systems to support efficient, consistent, and high-impact execution for all priority initiatives and projects. - Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to divisional and EaR leadership What Success Looks Like: - Established themselves as a trusted, credible embedded partner to GPER, L&A, HMA, and other policy-adjacent teams, with a consistent presence at leadership tables and strong executive-level relationships. - Led the development and execution of an integrated annual EaR plan aligned to policy agendas, research release calendars, stakeholder priorities, and defined business outcomes. - Implemented a clear Public Affairs operating rhythm within EaR, including structured campaign planning, intelligence sharing, and sequencing discipline, ensuring the right expertise is engaged at the right time despite evolving policy or research dynamics. - Demonstrated fluency in the full capabilities of the EaR division, enabling them to efficiently assemble and organize Studio teams to support priority policy, research, and stakeholder initiatives. - Reduced time-to-impact for priority initiatives by clarifying ownership, sequencing work, and proactively surfacing risks and dependencies. - Delivered measurable progress toward priority policy, research, or stakeholder milestones supported by coordinated communications strategy, while meeting agreed EaR performance standards for narrative alignment and execution quality. - Established clear goals, baselines, and reporting frameworks for Public Affairs communications performance, with regular communication of results, insights, and recommended optimizations to divisional and EaR leadership. Qualifications - 10+ years of experience in public affairs, policy communications, or strategic communications, including significant experience within complex, high-visibility, politically sensitive environments - Experience supporting state or federal legislative or regulatory initiatives through communications strategy - Strong communications strategy background, including experience designing and executing integrated campaigns that marshal media, messaging, and stakeholder sequencing across policy and research initiatives - Proven ability to lead cross-program or cross-organizational strategy in complex, matrixed settings, building trust and influence without direct authority and working through ambiguity - Exceptional writing skills, with demonstrated ability to translate complex policy or research content into clear, compelling narratives - Experience collaborating with research or subject matter experts to align publication releases with strategic messaging and media engagement - Proven ability to assess external landscapes, anticipate risks and opportunities, and recommend effective engagement strategies - Strong rapid response and crisis communications experience in politically or publicly sensitive environments - A goal- and metric-oriented mindset with experience using data and insights to guide strategy and measure impact - Executive presence, including the ability to represent EaR credibly with senior program leaders, navigate complex conversations, influence decision-making, and communicate clearly and confidently - Ability to manage multiple initiatives, priorities, and stakeholders simultaneously - Ability to travel 4 to 7 times per year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business Requirements - Authorization to work in the United States for any employer - A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work - Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a comfort learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively. - Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal - A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input. - A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking. - A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success. Benefits - At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck—we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - The hiring range for this role is $152,000 – $230,000. - Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. - We aim to make our best offer upfront—rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. - We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live. - You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
Director, Project Management, AP Curriculum and Assessment
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Role Description The AP Curriculum and Assessment, Director, Project Management leads end-to-end project management for course and exam revisions and updates, ensuring rigorous execution, clear alignment, and on-time delivery of all milestones and deliverables. This role operates with primary accountability for execution, integration, and operational excellence across a complex and large portfolio of work. You will own and continuously improve the roadmaps, timelines, and process infrastructure that support course and exam changes, including the course and exam changes roadmap and the standard setting roadmap. You will develop and maintain clear, scalable project plans (in Smartsheet), monitor progress at every stage, and provide transparent reporting on project health, risks, and dependencies. This role will work cross-functionally with other departments across the organization, ensuring strong coordination, communication, and delivery across teams. In addition, you will build and manage process documentation specifically tied to course and exam changes, and lead project management for special projects across C&A. You will also partner on contracts and budgeting for the projects you manage, and contribute to the oversight of operational resources. This role plays a critical part in strengthening how work gets done across the department by driving clarity, consistency, and efficiency. In this role, you will: - Drive Project Delivery and Execution (70%) - Lead end-to-end delivery of course and exam revisions and updates across the full lifecycle - Build and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones - Track progress, monitor dependencies, and proactively manage risks, issues, and changes - Ensure all deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and at a high quality bar - Report on project health, key risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and leadership - Drive accountability across cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and commitments - Identify and recommend tradeoffs across scope, timeline, and resources to ensure successful delivery - Explore and integrate approved Generative AI tools into project management workflows to improve efficiency, scalability, and consistency across C&A operational processes. - Lead Roadmaps, Process, and Operational Excellence (20%) - Own and continuously improve the course and exam changes roadmap and standard setting roadmap - Develop, refine, and maintain process documentation and templates specific to course and exam changes - Standardize workflows to increase clarity, consistency, and efficiency across C&A workstreams - Design and improve tracking systems, dashboards, and documentation to support execution and visibility - Ensure alignment between timelines, processes, and operational milestones across initiatives - Coordinate Cross-Functional Integration and Special Projects (10%) - Serve as the primary C&A project liaison for cross-department initiatives within AP, ensuring clear communication and coordination - Synthesize cross-functional input and translate it into actionable project plans and timelines - Ensure alignment between cross-functional inputs and final project decisions, escalating gaps as needed - Manage project execution for special projects involving C&A staff, ensuring alignment with existing priorities and capacity - Support standard setting planning and coordination in partnership with Psychometrics, including roadmap alignment and data inputs - Ensure cross-functional work is integrated into core project plans, timelines, and documentation - Maintain visibility into interdependencies across teams and elevate risks or misalignments as needed Qualifications - Expertise in managing complex projects with at least five (5) years of project management experience required, preferably in the higher education industry. - Superior technical skills/expertise in Smartsheet and full suite of Microsoft office applications (especially Excel and PowerPoint). - Strong analytical thinking skills and a data-driven approach to decision-making and prioritization, with the ability to forecast and measure using appropriate metrics. - Ability to oversee multiple workstreams with dependencies while keeping projects and budgets on track. - Experience partnering on contracts and budget management for complex projects. - Ability to identify risks early with a creative approach to problem-solving. - Proven ability to build relationships and influence others to action. - Ability to lead meetings effectively with a broad range of internal and external constituents. - Superior presentation and written communications skills. - Ability to manage the entire process/product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities. - Strong customer service orientation. - A Bachelor's degree. - The ability to travel 3-6 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business. Benefits - At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck - we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - The hiring range for this role is $80,000–$130,000. - Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. - We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. - We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live. - You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
Junior Policy and Security Awareness Analyst
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description As the Jr. Policy and Security Awareness Analyst, support College Board’s Security Policy Management and Security Awareness programs. You will work at the direction of the Senior Director, Governance and Risk to coordinate policy reviews using the ISGRC tool, One Trust and security awareness activities using the ISGRC tool, KnowBe4. This role is designed as an entry point into Information Security Governance, Risk, and Compliance with a possible opportunity to develop into more advanced security, audit, or risk roles within the organization. In this role, you will: - Security Policy (40%) - Assist in planning, executing, and managing security policy reviews and approval activities to ensure alignment with industry standards and business objectives. - Maintain and organize the enterprise policy library within One Trust and other designated repositories. - Research, interpret, and map policy requirements to compliance controls for audit readiness. - Conduct routine policy reviews to identify gaps or outdated content and recommend updates. - Support policy enforcement efforts and work with leadership to ensure consistent organization-wide compliance. - Maintain a Generative AI–powered chatbot built on Microsoft Copilot to answer common InfoSec policy questions. - Develop dashboards and reports that highlight training gaps, policy risks, and awareness trends. - Security Awareness (40%) - Support and continuously improve organization-wide security awareness training using KnowBe4. - Plan, execute, analyze, and report monthly phishing simulations. - Collaboration & Delivery (20%) - Support broader ISGRC initiatives designed to strengthen governance and risk management. - Develop dashboards, reports, and metrics to inform leadership about progress and effectiveness of policy and security awareness initiatives. - Perform other duties assigned to support ISGRC and enterprise security objectives. - Contribute to automation or AI-enabled improvements in policy or security awareness workflows. Qualifications - Preferred backgrounds include Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Data Analytics, Public Policy (with quantitative or technology focus), or related disciplines. - Excellent communication (written and verbal) and effective interpersonal skills. - Strong planning, prioritization, and execution skills, capable of managing multiple projects in fast-paced, evolving environments. - Experience working with structured data (e.g., Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, or Python) to organize, analyze, or report on information is preferred. - Experience using AI tools to analyze, summarize, or extract insights from documents. Familiarity with prompt structuring, workflow automation, or API-based usage is strongly preferred. - A critical thinker, a solid drive to excellence, a strong attention to detail, an insatiable appetite for continuous improvement, and a constant need to learn, practice, and improve. - Enthusiasm to learn through a combination of structured, on-the-job, and self-directed training. - Desire to explore a career in Information Security or Information Security, Governance, Risk and Compliance. - Interest in pursuing foundational security certifications such as ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC), CompTIA Security+, or ISO 27001, with longer-term development toward certifications like CISA or CISSP. - Ability to work efficiently and effectively in a remote team environment. - Ability to communicate the value of compliance work in clear business terms, helping stakeholders understand how audit readiness, effective controls, and timely remediation reduce risk, protect trust, and support College Board’s mission. Requirements - Preferred - Working in a security environment with experience in security awareness or policy management. - Bachelor’s degree preferred. - The ability to travel 3-4 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business. Benefits - At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - The hiring range for this role is $48,000 – $75,000. Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board. - We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data. - We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live. - You’ll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
Director, Session Lead
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description The AP Program Planning team is responsible for the successful execution of the annual AP Reading event where millions of student exam responses are scored. The team supports strategic planning, workforce coordination, logistics, vendor alignment, and data-driven decision making to ensure accurate and timely scoring across 40+ AP subjects. Leads planning and execution of AP Reading operations for an assigned portfolio of subjects, ensuring that all Readers—both onsite and at-home—are effectively deployed, scheduled, and supported to deliver accurate, timely scoring while contributing to a high-quality and consistent Reader experience. - Own execution of AP Reading operations for an assigned portfolio of AP subjects. - Ensure scoring delivery aligns to throughput, quality, completion targets, and prompt-level coverage needs. - Monitor subject- and prompt-level scoring performance, including Reader productivity, coverage, completion pacing, and emerging operational risk. - Manage real-time assignment of Readers to exam prompts. - Maintain continuous engagement with Chief Readers and subject leadership. - Plan and prepare for AP Reading execution across assigned subjects. - Execute workforce deployment plans at the session and subject level. - Validate readiness of all assigned Readers across environments. - Support attendance tracking, no-show handling, and exception management. - Lead subject-level planning for onsite execution. - Engage vendors directly to resolve real-time operational issues. - Ensure clear, consistent coordination across onsite and at-home Readers. - Direct the work of 1–2 Value Chain Analysts supporting assigned subjects. - Serve as the primary escalation point for subject-level issue resolution. - Provide structured reporting on scoring progress, staffing status, Reader issues, vendor concerns, and other operational risks. Qualifications - Strong real-time operator with experience managing complex, high-volume workflows in dynamic environments. - Comfortable leading in ambiguity and making adjustments under pressure. - Able to connect scoring needs, staffing realities, logistics constraints, and Reader experience. - Analytical with the ability to spot patterns and use data effectively. - Strong people and stakeholder leader. - Minimum of 4 years of experience leading operations. - Experience working with complex data sets and advanced MS Excel user. - Bachelor's Degree preferred. Requirements - Ability to travel 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business. - Role may entail standing and/or walking for extended periods of time. - Authorization to work in the United States for any employer. - Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal. - A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth. - A drive for impact and excellence. - A collaborative and empathetic approach. Benefits - Meaningful career and a supportive team. - Comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - Fair and competitive compensation based on qualifications, experience, and market data. - Open, transparent conversations about compensation and benefits throughout the hiring process. Company Description At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck—we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Lead Engineer, Secure Client Engineering
College BoardAt College Board, we offer more than a paycheck- we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive.
Role Description As a Lead Engineer on the Secure Client Engineering team, you will play a hands-on role in protecting the integrity of Bluebook, the application students rely on for digital assessments across Windows, macOS, iPad, and ChromeOS. You’ll provide technical leadership by guiding architecture and design decisions, setting a high bar for engineering quality, and mentoring teammates, while remaining deeply involved in implementation. You’ll work close to the operating system, leveraging native platform capabilities to tackle complex, low-level challenges at the intersection of software engineering and security. This role is built for engineers who thrive on hard problems without clear answers, combining deep technical expertise with sound judgment to design resilient client-side protections in an ever-evolving landscape. In this role, you will: - Design & Implementation (70%): - Collaborate daily with other engineers on the team using mob programming to solve complex technical problems through software engineering while guiding approaches and unblocking the team. - Maintain the highest engineering standards in collaboration across teams with product owners, architects, and stakeholders, in support of our systems and services. - Use your deep understanding of the applications within the Digital Assessment Platform to drive the design and implementation of novel solutions to security challenges in desktop and mobile applications, across Windows, MacOS, iOS, and ChromeOS. - Lead by example in writing code for both native and web environments, building component-based, performant, stable, and secure solutions with a focus on lower-level code that interfaces with the native operating system. - Understand new product requirements and lead the decomposition of the work into well-defined functional changes for verification. - Team Operations & Success (30%): - Drive continuous improvement of the team’s engineering practices, efficiency, speed, and quality. - Lead and influence discussions on architecture, testing strategies, developer experience, security, performance, and resilience. - Lead and contribute to code and design reviews, setting quality standards and providing actionable feedback to elevate the team. - Lead the investigation and resolution of complex production issues, ensuring root causes are understood and addressed. - Champion and evolve development standards and security policies, ensuring consistent adoption across the team. - Drive the adoption of AI-augmented and agentic engineering practices, establishing effective patterns for rapidly implementing, testing, and delivering high-quality code based within the team’s collaborative engineering model. - Continuously develop and share skills needed to thrive in a poly-skilled, increasingly AI-native engineering environment. - Evaluate and introduce new methods and tools, guiding adoption to improve team effectiveness in a post-agile environment. Qualifications - 8+ years of production level software development experience, with a significant portion spent on native desktop or platform-level applications. - Deep, hands-on experience with native Windows development, including working directly with lower level operating system APIs, memory, processes, and/or kernel-level interfaces. - Strong proficiency in C++ for production systems, including experience with lower-level Windows development such as Win32 APIs, kernel-mode components, or driver development. - Proficiency in reviewing and improving code structure and architecture for testability, maintainability, and scalability. - Familiarity with cloud-based development workflows, including version control in GitHub and basic exposure to AWS or similar cloud platforms. - A love of learning and a growth mindset. - An openness and genuine enthusiasm to mob programming as a primary working mode. - Strong problem-solving skills, leading efforts to tackle complex technical challenges. - Strong technical research skills as it pertains to quickly building a working understanding of large open source repositories. - Experience defining engineering standards and leading code and design reviews. - Proven ability to introduce and drive adoption of new ideas. - Effective communicator and technical leader. - Ability to travel 3-5 times a year to our NYC or Reston, VA office. Requirements - Experience developing anti-cheat controls in video game or similar software. - Experience building resilient client-side systems in adversarial or security-sensitive environments. - Comfort with low-level debugging, reviewing assembly, understanding of the low-level components of native development. Benefits - A meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. - Fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market. - Open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it’s like to work at College Board.
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