Portfolio Manager, Product Security

The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to excellence in education. As a Portfolio Manager for Product Security, you will play a critical role in ensuring the secure and reliable delivery of the College Board’s highest-priority digital initiatives, collaborating across teams to manage security initiatives and align them with organizational goals.

Responsibilities:

• Aggregate and synthesize portfolio- and product-level security signals, including progress, risks, issues, and key metrics, into clear, actionable views that support decision-making by technical and executive stakeholders
• Identify, surface, and help drive resolution of cross-team impediments that affect security outcomes, delivery timelines, or exam integrity
• Monitor portfolio performance to ensure security investments are delivering measurable risk reduction and supporting clean delivery at scale
• Partner with Product Security leadership to drive continuous improvement in work intake, prioritization, reporting, and planning practices to better support Bluebook and other mission-critical products
• Manage security-related budgets and vendor engagements, ensuring spending is aligned to priority outcomes, delivery timelines, and risk reduction objectives
• Own portfolio-level planning, intake, prioritization, and health management for Product Security org, ensuring roadmap commitments and organizational goals are visible, monitored, and driven to completion
• Partner with Product Security, engineering, and program leadership to continuously align security roadmaps with delivery milestones, risk posture, and organizational priorities for mission-critical digital products
• Ensure constrained Product Security capacity is applied to the highest-impact work by sequencing initiatives, identifying tradeoffs, and making dependencies and risks visible early
• Track progress against Product Security roadmap commitments and goals, proactively identifying execution risks, misalignment, or slippage and facilitating corrective action to keep initiatives moving through delivery
• Foster a transparent, respectful working environment where risks, constraints, and challenges are surfaced early and addressed through collaborative problem solving
• Facilitate portfolio-level planning and operating cadences, including intake, backlog refinement, planning, and retrospectives, with an emphasis on outcomes and continuous improvement rather than ceremony

Requirements:

• 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience coordinating and prioritizing work across multiple security, engineering, or technology teams in complex environments
• A strong understanding of information security principles, security compliance, cloud technologies, and modern enterprise architecture, sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams and leadership is highly preferred
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, and external partners in support of security or technology initiatives, with a focus on aligning spend to risk reduction and delivery outcomes
• Practical experience working within modern software delivery environments, including scrum- or kanban-based teams, with an emphasis on enabling flow and informed tradeoffs rather than enforcing process
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and present clear options to technical and executive audiences
• Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes across teams without direct authority, building alignment through trust, clarity, and disciplined prioritization
• Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of working effectively across security, engineering, product, and program functions
• Willingness and ability to travel 3–5 times per year to College Board offices and other domestic or international locations, as needed
• Authorization to work in the United States