Executive Director, AP Assessment Production Management

The College Board is a nonprofit organization that oversees the AP program, providing high school students with opportunities to study at the college level. They are seeking an Executive Director for AP Assessment Production Management, responsible for leading the production management of AP exam development and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality assessments. This role involves overseeing a team, designing scalable processes, and collaborating with senior leadership to drive operational effectiveness during a period of growth and transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of insourced AP Exam production across 40+ courses, ensuring 130+ forms are completed on time and within established windows aligned to the annual administration dates
• Oversee large-scale production and process management across thousands of items, maintaining quality, timelines, and operational rigor
• Drive prioritization and resolution of ~6,000+ assessment items, proactively identifying risks and removing barriers to production
• Oversee execution across multiple production models (digital, print, hybrid, accommodated), ensuring continuous improvement and operational effectiveness
• Serve as a primary partner to senior leaders (e.g., Curriculum & Assessment Department Heads), ensuring alignment, visibility, and execution across the portfolio of AP courses
• Design and implement scalable processes, tools, and operating models to support a fully insourced assessment production function
• Build and manage an integrated process management ecosystem enabling visibility across 10,000+ workflow steps and deliverables
• Proactively assess and manage dependencies on cross-functional team capacity, driving alignment on priorities, surfacing constraints, and ensuring realistic, achievable production commitments
• Own and operationalize a clear role clarity and accountability framework across Director, Senior Director, and Executive Director levels, ensuring work is executed at the appropriate level and aligned to defined ownership expectations
• Lead a team of 20+ team members that is responsible for course-level end-to-end production and process management of insourced AP exam development
• Lead a manager-of-managers structure, providing strategic oversight to Senior Directors and empowering high-performing teams
• Set vision and priorities for the team, track and manage progress to goals, and provide coaching and support to ensure team members meet and exceed goals, remain engaged, and contribute meaningfully to our mission
• Cultivate an inclusive and high-achieving culture that enables all team members to live out College Board’s Operating Principles effectively
• Bring proven leadership experience and consistently embody College Board’s Manager Expectations in your work

Requirements:

• Demonstrated success leading high-stakes, multi-year operational transformations at scale
• Experience using innovative thinking and data to inform decisions and actions
• Demonstrated fluency with emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, applying them strategically to inform multiyear project planning, while modeling effective and responsible use of AI to empower Assessment Production Management leaders and teams
• Strong people leader with experience managing senior managers and cross-functional teams
• Exceptional communication, influence, and systems-thinking skills
• The ability to travel 6-8 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
• Bachelor's degree required
• 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 with 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
• Authorization to work in the United States
• Experience working with digital assessment platforms, content production pipelines, or regulated delivery environments strongly preferred
• 7-10 years of experience in assessment development, product development and/or program management in the EdTech space
• A strategic and inclusive leadership style: you set clear priorities, build effective team structures, plan for future needs, and foster a culture of belonging
• Master's degree preferred