Senior Product Manager, Test Security & Platform Defense

The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence in education. As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the product strategy for test security and platform defense, ensuring the integrity of high-stakes digital assessments while navigating complex challenges and emerging threats.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for test security and platform defense across the digital assessment platform
• Define priorities based on assessment risk, threat intelligence, program needs, and platform constraints, ensuring a unified approach across current and future programs
• Synthesize inputs from Test Security, Platform Threat Intelligence, field observations, and engineering into clear problem statements, prioritization options, and actionable roadmap proposals
• Proactively identify new problem spaces and solution opportunities, challenging assumptions and advancing innovative approaches to assessment protection
• Maintain a forward-looking roadmap that evolves as threats, business needs, and technology change
• Establish a shared strategic narrative that aligns security, platform, and program leaders around goals, sequencing, and outcomes
• Translate product strategy into actionable initiatives implemented across multiple product domains and engineering teams
• Partner with product management leaders to integrate test security and platform defense solutions into domain roadmaps, align sequencing and dependencies across initiatives, and establish consistent security patterns, standards, and platform capabilities. Engage program VPs as business owners to ensure solutions protect assessment integrity while supporting program-specific requirements and operational realities
• Surface prioritization conflicts and decision points, presenting structured options, risks, and delivery implications to Test Security and Technology, Program, and Product leadership
• Define shared success metrics so progress is measured holistically across teams, not in isolation
• When appropriate, directly own delivery for specific test security or platform defense capabilities, acting as a hands-on PM/PO for deeply technical engineering teams (e.g., secure client or related components)
• Translate complex technical and security requirements into clear backlog priorities, delivery plans, and acceptance criteria
• Stay close to delivery to ensure strategy is grounded in execution realities and technical constraints
• Communicate clearly and responsibly with senior leadership on security posture, emerging risks, progress against strategy, and key tradeoffs
• Translate highly technical, sensitive, or confidential information into appropriate-level messaging tailored to the audience, maintaining discretion at all times
• Build shared understanding and confidence across product, security, and program leadership through clear narratives, recommendations, and decision framing
• Serve as a trusted voice on test security and platform defense, particularly in moments of ambiguity, risk, or emerging threat response

Requirements:

• 8+ years of product management or related experience, including senior ownership of complex technical platforms
• Experience operating in security-sensitive, adversarial, or high-trust environments (e.g., assessments, identity, fraud, fintech, regulated platforms)
• Demonstrated ability to exercise strong judgment and discretion when working with confidential or sensitive information
• Experience defining platform-scale product strategy and setting clear prioritization across complex systems
• Ability to coordinate and influence cross-team work without direct authority
• Proven experience owning and prioritizing backlogs for deeply technical engineering teams
• Strong technical fluency across platform architecture, data, APIs, and system design
• Clear, precise communication skills, especially in complex, high-stakes, or sensitive contexts
• A learner's mindset and comfort operating in evolving threat landscapes
• The ability to travel 5-7 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
• Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
• Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and 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