Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management

🇺🇸 Remote - US 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $56K - $90K 💻 Project Management 🗓️ September 20th, 2026

Edtech.com's Summary

College Board is hiring an Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management to bring structure to a fast-moving portfolio of AP prototype and pilot initiatives, in a fully remote or hybrid role.

Highlights

Owns project management across the full lifecycle of the team's prototype and pilot initiatives, including timelines, milestones, and decision gates.
Coordinates cross-functional work, convening contributors and keeping workstreams aligned to charters and deadlines.
Owns the team's document and knowledge management system, including the artifact library, templates, and version control.
Facilitates agile-style planning, including sprint or cycle planning, standups, and retrospectives.
Offers a hiring range of $56,000-$90,000; requires 4+ years of project or program management experience.

Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management Full Description

College Board's AP Prototype Development and Evaluation team helps AP learn fast and decide well on major innovations, producing decision-ready recommendations grounded in market requirements, feasibility, and evidence from staged pilots.

The Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Management brings structure and continuity to a fast-moving portfolio of prototype and pilot initiatives, in a fully remote or hybrid role that moves between cross-functional execution and managing the team's decision-ready documents.

Responsibilities

Owns project management across the full lifecycle of the team's prototype and pilot initiatives, including timelines, milestones, and decision gates.
Coordinates cross-functional work, convening contributors and keeping workstreams aligned to charters and deadlines.
Tracks risks, blockers, dependencies, and decisions across active initiatives, escalating items that threaten timelines or go/no-go gates.
Owns the team's document and knowledge management system, including the artifact library, templates, and version control.
Builds and maintains trackers and status reporting that give the team and leadership a clear view of portfolio health.
Facilitates agile-style planning, including sprint or cycle planning, standups, and retrospectives.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in project or program management, managing complex, multi-stakeholder portfolios across their full lifecycle.
Experience owning knowledge and document management systems, including templates, version control, and reusable artifact libraries.
Strong writing, editing, and document production skills under tight timelines.
Preferred: experience with Agile methodology.
Hiring range of $56,000-$90,000, with the ability to travel up to 10% of the time.