Product Design Manager

Product Design Manager

Location : 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). Type : This is a full-time position

About the Team : The Scoring & Reporting domain delivers the core scoring and score-reporting services that power all College Board assessments, including the SAT Suite, AP, and CLEP. In addition to supporting these mission-critical pipelines, the team develops tools that help educators score free-response work at scale and gain deeper, more actionable insight into student learning. A major focus ahead is building and evolving our own large-scale free-response scoring, and incorporating AI-assistance in the process. The work spans a mix of long-established products and emerging platforms, with opportunities to modernize, streamline, and elevate the end-to-end experience for students, educators, and institutional partners. Design is a new and foundational capability in this domain. The Product Design Manager will lead a team of 4-6 designers and establish a design practice that shapes experiences across operational scoring tools, educator-facing insights, student-facing insights, and formal score reporting to higher education and other audiences. Designers will be embedded in cross-functional teams that work closely with engineering, data science, psychometrics, and product owners, while the manager partners with other design leaders to ensure the domain's experiences fit cohesively into College Board's broader platform ecosystem. This is a chance to build a team and define a design vision in a domain that touches millions of learners and to guide the evolution of products that sit at the heart of College Board's mission.

About the Opportunity

As the Product Design Manager, you will lead and inspire a team of service and product designers at various levels. You will be responsible for overseeing the design strategy, ensuring the delivery of high-quality design solutions, and fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture. Your role will involve strategic thinking, team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-on design work. In this role, you will :

• Team Leadership and Management (40%)

Leadership : Provide direction, mentorship, and support to the product design team, fostering growth and development.

Strategic Planning : Lead the development and execution of design strategies that align with business goals and user needs.

Collaboration : Serve as the design point person for our cross-functional teams, aligning product, engineering, and research efforts.

Thought Leadership : Contribute to the evolution of design standards, practices, and design system components.

About You

You bring a user-focused and organizationally aware mindset; you are inquisitive and possess tremendous learning agility; you constantly seek useful information that can shape products for the good of the user; and you build strong, productive relationships while leading your product design team and stakeholders to produce value for our users. The greater the complexity you face, the greater initiative and leadership you assume. You are adept at exercising your influence to get things done across the organization. To qualify for this role, you must have :

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; 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, interview exercise, a panel interview, a potential 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 $113,000-$155,000. 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.