Fast Facts

The Senior Product Manager for the Digital Assessment Platform at College Board will lead strategic initiatives to evolve and enhance digital assessments, ensuring they meet emerging educational needs in an AI-driven landscape.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include defining product strategy, guiding iterative product development, and communicating progress to leadership while ensuring measurable outcomes that improve user experiences.

Skills: Candidates must demonstrate extensive experience in product management within SaaS platforms, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to lead cross-functional teams, particularly in complex system environments.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include 10+ years in product management, a strong background in educational technology, and familiarity with AI-enabled tools.

Location: This position is fully remote but aligned to Eastern Standard Time (EST) working hours. Occasional travel to College Board offices is required 5-7 times a year.

Compensation: $120000 - $190000 / Annually

College Board – Digital Product

100% Remote, aligned to working core EST hours

About the Team

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.

At the heart of this strategic work, we are a collaborative group of product leaders, strategists, and innovators reimagining how digital assessments are delivered and experienced. Our work spans the full product lifecycle, from discovery and design to delivery and continuous improvement. We partner across the organization to ensure every solution we build improves outcomes for students, educators, and institutions.

Every year, our platform delivers assessments to millions of students worldwide, providing opportunities that shape futures and open doors. Together, we are transforming College Board’s trusted assessment platform into a next-generation digital assessment experience that is secure, user-centered, and built to evolve with the future of learning and assessment.

About the Opportunity

As a Senior Product Manager, Digital Assessment Platforms, you are a strategic and outcome-driven product leader who thrives in complexity, embraces iteration, and grounds every decision in evidence. You’re energized by building new products and experiences from the ground up, and by reimagining how digital assessments can meet emerging educational needs in an AI-enabled world. In this role, you will define strategy, guide iterative development across multiple product teams, and deliver secure, scalable solutions that advance College Board’s digital assessment experience and improve outcomes for students, educators, and institutions.

In this role, you will:

Define and Drive Product Strategy and Vision (50%)

• Establish a clear strategy for your part of the digital assessment platform that delivers measurable improvements for students and educators while aligning with College Board’s strategy.
• Create and maintain a product roadmap that translates vision into a sequence of priorities so that short-term improvements and long-term investments are balanced effectively.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities from research and market insights to ensure the roadmap delivers the highest-value outcomes aligned to user needs and market opportunities.
• Look for opportunities to leverage AI in our product designs to streamline workflows, improve efficiency, and enhance the user experience so that interactions with the platform are more intuitive and seamless.
• Align cross-functional teams and stakeholders around the roadmap so that priorities are executed cohesively and with maximum impact.

Lead Iterative Product Development (30%)

• Collaborate with designers and product managers to develop early prototypes and user flows so that solutions can be tested and refined before significant investment.
• Lead discovery experiments and rapid learning cycles with end users so that insights from early prototypes and pilots are validated with users before scaling ensuring that every product decision is grounded in evidence.
• Translate validated insights into clear hypotheses and iterative experiments so that product teams consistently build capabilities that address the highest priority user and market needs.
• Drive roadmap execution through continuous learning, prioritization by impact, and cross-team alignment to ensure timely delivery of the highest-impact features and outcomes.
• Ensure each release advances usability, scalability, and security with measurable gains in performance and satisfaction through data-driven iteration.
• Maintain a continuous improvement cycle using analytics and feedback so that roadmap updates are evidence-based, not assumption-driven.

Communicate Value and Progress to Leadership (20%)

• Provide clear, outcome-focused updates to internal and external audiences that communicate measurable impact, share insights, and demonstrate how roadmap delivery advances College Board’s strategic goals.
• Engage directly with external users, partners, and institutions to communicate product vision, gather feedback, and build alignment on future priorities.
• Build confidence with leaders, partners, end users and stakeholders by connecting product decisions to measurable results and long-term impact.
• Serve as a thought partner on the opportunities and challenges of AI in education so that College Board continues to innovate in ways that improve efficiency and user experience.

What Success Looks Like

• Clear, measurable outcomes are defined and achieved across multiple product components, improving key metrics such as adoption, usability, and reliability.
• Product decisions are consistently grounded in evidence from user insights, data analysis, and experimentation including prototypes and pilots.
• Delivered solutions drive measurable improvements in educator efficiency, student usability, reliability, and security.
• Leadership views you as a trusted thought partner who influences both product direction and organizational strategy.
• The digital assessment experience continues to demonstrate measurable gains in user trust, engagement, and institutional value, strengthening College Board’s reputation as the leader in secure, AI-aware innovation.

About You

To qualify for this role, you must have:

• 10+ years of product management or related experience, with a proven track record leading products within SaaS enterprise platforms
• Deep understanding of secure, large-scale, and complex systems; experience in assessments or educational technology is a strong plus.
• Experience leading greenfield or high-complexity initiatives from discovery to launch.
• A proven ability to define product vision and strategy, deliver complex products, and drive measurable user outcomes.
• Skill in translating research and data into prioritized roadmaps and clear success metrics.
• Experience with iterative product development and in guiding product managers and cross-functional teams through execution.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce clear, concise communications that build shared understanding and alignment.
• Strong collaboration and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and align diverse stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools, automation, or UX-focused applications of AI (preferred).
• The ability to travel 5–7 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business.

All roles at College Board require:

• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
• Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
• 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.

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.
• While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.  

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. We’re a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation, grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation

• The hiring range for this role is $120,000 – $190,000.
• 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. Check out our careers page for more.

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