College Board
Executive Director, AP Product Strategy, Intelligence, and Analytics
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $152K - $220K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ April 25th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
College Board is hiring an Executive Director, AP Product Strategy, Intelligence, and Analytics. This role involves driving AP's strategic direction through project management and analytics, building and managing a research and analytics team, and collaborating with senior leaders to align on strategic priorities. The position requires strong problem-solving, data analysis, and communication skills and involves team building and strategic discussions to enhance the AP program's impact.
Highlights
- Main responsibilities include strategic team management, product and market intelligence, and diligent evaluation of new ideas.
- Requires expertise in strategy and analysis with 7-10 years of experience.
- Involves designing, building, and managing a small high-performing team.
- Salary range is $152,000-220,000 based on location and experience.
- Targets aligned goals and provides evidence-based recommendations.
- Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and tuition assistance.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to influence through data-driven insights required.
- Requires the ability to travel 6-8 times a year.
- Includes a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities for merit raises.
Executive Director, AP Product Strategy, Intelligence, and Analytics Full Description
Executive Director, AP Product Strategy, Intelligence, and Analytics
Remote - USA
Full time
Executive Director, AP Product Strategy, Intelligence, and Analytics
College Board – AP&I
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 College Board’s Advanced Placement and Instruction (AP&I) division develops and administers coursework and exams taken by almost 4 million students worldwide each school year and utilized by thousands of colleges and universities to award college credit and to propel students further in their studies.
The AP Product Strategy department in the AP&I division identifies and evaluates new program opportunities, including ways to expand upon AP’s value proposition and to secure AP’s value to students and families. We identify, evaluate, and incubate high-impact ideas in order to shape the future of AP — ideas that expand access, strengthen AP’s value proposition, and guide what we build next. Our goal is to broaden the number of students who succeed in rigorous courses and earn credit opportunities that accelerate them on their paths after high school.
We are a team of versatile, high-performing individuals who work closely with leaders across the College Board to drive strategic initiatives for the Program.
With over one third of high school graduates participating in AP and 80% of high school students enrolling in schools offering at least five distinct AP courses, this leadership role offers potential for meaningful impact at scale.
About the Opportunity
You will drive AP’s strategic direction through project work and analytic prowess, and will scale your influence by designing, building out and then managing a team with expertise in research and analytics—scoping and managing their work in order to match the team’s capacity to areas of greatest need or potential.
You appreciate the value of evidence in decision-making and especially appreciate that data is only powerful to the extent it’s accessible and can speak directly to the pressing strategic questions. You’ve earned a reputation as a source for reliable analytic leadership, with an ability to appreciate the complex without losing sight of the surrounding context or overall narrative. You enjoy operating at all altitudes of analysis—from breaking a problem down into core questions and related activities to tracing the inputs in a model to synthesizing and simplifying findings to ultimately offering newfound clarity that leads to a clear course of action.
You are comfortable questioning the status quo ways of looking at impact and have been successful at introducing new approaches to measuring or evaluating work while drawing upon the expertise of others.
You enjoy learning and applying new analytic tools and approaches on the job, and especially enjoy building the skills of the individuals you manage.
In this role, you’ll work directly with the VP, AP Product Strategy, the counterpart ED, AP Product Strategy, the SVP, AP&I, and colleagues across AP&I and across the College Board to help set AP’s priorities and to ensure alignment across the product portfolio.
Specifically, as Executive Director, AP Product Strategy, Intelligence, and Analytics, you will lead a team within the AP Product Strategy unit and report to the VP, AP Product Strategy, and will take responsibility for:
- Strategic team management and alignment (25%)
- Designing, building and managing a small team to annually achieve an ambitious agenda of strategic initiatives, set annually in partnership with AP&I leadership team
- Providing timely, evidence-based recommendations that enable smart, swift decision-making by leaders at a range of levels across the division and organization
- Building strong, trust-based relationships with senior leaders across AP&I and key internal partner teams
- Setting an agenda for staff development across the team to ensure staff gain skills necessary to their roles (e.g., employing AI tools, analyzing and visualizing data, modeling)
- Leading and fostering your team members’ ability to independently lead strategic discussions—bringing clarity to complex issues, surfacing insights, and driving alignment on priorities
- Product and market intelligence (40%): Maintain a data-driven understanding of the evolving market landscape and its intersection with the AP portfolio to diagnose risks, uncover emerging opportunities, and ensure strategic alignment with students' and schools' needs. This includes:
- Projecting K–12 demand for AP and identifying shifts in customer segment priorities to anticipate needs and potential risks to reach
- Monitoring AP credit and placement policies in higher education to validate its value proposition and identify opportunities to strengthen adoption
- Analyzing competing programs and alternatives to understand their competitive strengths, assess AP’s position, and recommend strategic responses
- Evaluating education policy trends that may influence AP growth and adoption
- Identifying ways to increase AP’s value to students, families, and educators, including workforce relevance and career-aligned positioning
- Collaborating with subject-matter experts across CB (e.g., Policy, Instructional Design, Delivery, Strategy, and Higher Ed) to surface key insights in executive-ready formats
- Goal-setting and target-setting (10%)
- Establishing targets for AP volumes used throughout the organization for the purposes of making resource decisions, setting strategies, and evaluating outcomes
- Diligence of new ideas (25%)
- Leading processes to proactively identify strategic opportunities and risks, including commissioning research to generate powerful new insights about AP
- Evaluating those and SVP-identified opportunities and risks for their potential for impact on AP’s priority metrics (volume, reach, margin) including development of business cases as well as feasibility/deliverability
- Harnessing AP’s data in order to inform decisions made by colleagues in and outside the division as well as to drive external stakeholders to action
About You
You (have):
- Expertise in strategy and analysis with 7-10 years of experience in a role devoted to strategic decision-making grounded in market intelligence and data analysis
- A strong sense of prioritization, with the ability to assess and re-assess opportunities based on potential impact
- Proven ability to set vision and direction, and to manage others toward aligned goals and measurable outcomes
- A track record of building and developing high-performing, collaborative teams
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, using data and evidence to guide decision-making
- Fluency in data interpretation and visualization, with a critical thinking mindset and an ability to distill complex information into clear, compelling narratives
- The ability to communicate effectively—both verbally and in writing—including leading meetings and presenting to senior stakeholders in-person and remotely
- Skill in building strong internal relationships to that empower colleagues and assure your and your team’s work serves highest priority needs
- The ability to influence others to action through clarity, credibility, and data-driven insight
- Hunger for expanding your and our colleagues’ knowledge of emerging trends in education and how they affect our reach
- The ability to travel 6–8 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
- Authorization to work in the United States
About Our Process
- Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled
- 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.
About Our Benefits and Compensation
College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.
The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $152,000-220,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.
Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.
Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:
- A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
- Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
- A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive
You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.
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