Senior Director, AP Assessment Design and Insights

Senior Director, AP Assessment Design and Insights College Board – AP&I Location: This is a 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. Role Type: This is a full-time position About the Team The College Board’s Advanced Placement and Instruction division (300+ staff) develops and administers coursework taken by more than 3 million students worldwide each school year, and the related subject-matter exams utilized by more than 4,000 colleges and universities for course placement and awarding of college credit. These include credit and placement examination programs like CLEP and ACCUplacer; Advanced Placement (AP) and Pre-AP courses in 40+ disciplines; and associated teacher professional learning programs. To support the continued growth and evolution of the program, the AP Program Enablement team is designed to oversee the end-to-end management of the AP Course Roadmap, as well as the assessment design and systems requirements, processes and production functions that underpin all new and existing AP courses and exams. This team plays a central role in ensuring alignment, quality, and efficiency across the full lifecycle of course and assessment production. Within AP Program Enablement, the AP Assessment Design & Systems team functions as the cross-cutting backbone accountable for the assessment design, systems, and requirements making “build to score and report” possible across all AP courses and exams. Assessment Design & Systems governs the end-to-end integration across the full platform ecosystem, assessment design and requirements, the integrity and certification layer, and the knowledge and data governance, serving as the connective tissue other Program Enablement functions rely on to operate as one coherent system. This scope spans all 40+ existing AP courses and new courses in active development and underpins the program’s digital transformation and strategic priorities. About the Opportunity As Senior Director, AP Assessment Design and Insights, you will serve as a senior strategic leader and analytical engine within the AP Assessment Design & Systems team within AP Program Enablement, driving the assessment design infrastructure, systems strategy, and knowledge architecture that underpin AP’s assessment work across existing courses and a growing portfolio of new course development. This role sits at the intersection of assessment design, data-informed strategy, and cross-functional leadership, and is essential to ensuring that AP’s assessment design, systems, and resources are coherent, current, and positioned for the program’s long-term evolution. You will lead and advance AP's assessment design infrastructure, from intake frameworks for new and revised courses to the team's assessment resources, knowledge base, and systems roadmap, working in close partnership with the Executive Director, who sets the strategic direction for the team. You will serve as an authoritative voice on assessment design standards and requirements across the AP ecosystem, a trusted partner to technology and product teams, and the primary driver of the divisional AP Assessment Community of Practice. This is an ideal role for a senior assessment leader who combines deep expertise in educational assessment with the strategic and analytical capabilities to advance a complex, high-stakes program at scale. In this Role, You Will: Lead Assessment Systems Strategy and Resources (40%)