Job Information
TheCollegeBoard Executive Director, SAT Digital Product Management - REQ001600_2-3175 in Phoenix, Arizona
This job was posted by https://www.azjobconnection.gov : For more information, please see: https://www.azjobconnection.gov/jobs/6511956 College Board - College Readiness Assessments
100% Remote (anticipated travel 6-12 times/year)
About the Team
The College Readiness Assessments (\"CRA\") division is a team of mission-driven people who deliver the SAT Suite of Assessments (SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT10, and PSAT 8/9) to millions of students across the world each year to help open their paths to college, career, and life after high school.The SAT Suite connects students to a wide range of post-high school opportunities, including scholarships, careers, and colleges and universities. In 2023, we retired the use of paper/pencil testing and are now a fully digital SAT Suite offering an assessment that is easier to give, easier to take, more secure, and more relevant.
The Digital Product Management Team is responsible for all educator and student-facing products that power the delivery of the SAT Suite, including the products that facilitate the ordering, registration and reporting of the SAT Suite of Assessments and bookend the digital assessment platforms known as Test Day Toolkit and Bluebook. The College Readiness Assessments team\'s product portfolio spans K-12 school, district and state customers as well as direct to consumer models. We have a talented team of product managers and product owners with a deep knowledge of the assessment space, students and educators, and the K-12 market landscape.
With the SAT Suite now fully digital, our states, and the districts and schools within them, engage with an ecosystem of digital products to prepare for, administer, and receive results for our assessments. These products serve tens of thousands of schools, hundreds of thousands of educators, and millions of students each year.
About the Opportunity
As the Executive Director, SAT Digital Product Management, you will serve as the overall product lead and portfolio manager for the SAT Suite of Assessments. You will also oversee our SAT Student Readiness Products (SRP) and Ancillary Services including change fees, late registration, score reports, international fees, etc. You will be responsible for the strategic management of CRA\'s portfolio of products including: product roadmap, implementation of product enhancements, day-to-day management of the product; issue resolution; financial management; and collaboration with the various groups that use and support the SAT programs. You will lead a team of experienced product managers and product owners. You will mentor and coach your product team to ensure each individual contributor is learning and growing as they contribute to the overall success of our products. Our product leads bring an end user-focused and organizationally aware mindset; they are inquisitive and possess tremendous learning agility; they constantly seek useful information that can shape their products for the good of those our products serve; and they build strong, productive relationships while guiding/leading/nurturing their teams and stakeholders to produce tremendous value for our customers and stakeholders.
Leveraging your background and experience, you\'ll drive best practices and methods to help our product organization thrive. You will focus on strategy across adjacent product teams, including our mission driven BigFuture vertical. You will identify unique opportunities across multiple areas of our enterprise product portfolio in ways that concretely affect product outcomes and exercise your influence to get things done across the organization.
You will report directly to the VP, SAT Suite Program Delivery & Innovation as a member of our division\'s senior leadership team. You will manage two Product Managers each with a team of Product Owners.
In this role, you will:
Product Management (60%)
Lead a team of product m nagers and product owners to execute on overall vision/roadmaps, ensuring quality, user experience and delivery goals are met
Define and manage the product portfolio roadmap to identify short, medium, and long-term product changes and enhancements that will improve the user experience, grow participation in the SAT programs and enhance operational and financial sustainability
Formulate product plans that are driven and informed by regular user and market research, committee feedback, outreach and interaction with educators, competitive and metrics analysis and cost/benefit analyses
Direct and supervise all analyses required to develop detailed and actionable product plans including competitive positioning, product branding, packaging scenarios, psychometric research support and delivery models
Be accountable for the successful delivery/launch of any program changes or enhancements implemented
Demonstrate confidence in making complex tradeoffs and educating all stakeholders on those tradeoffs through the process
Actively work to resolve blockers and risks for the portfolio and leads teams to validate assumptions and analyze and communicate trade-offs to guide portfolio decisions
Understand technical concepts and be able to communicate them to non-technical audiences