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College Board
Director, Workplace Experience
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New York, New York
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Full-Time
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$100K - $130K
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Operations
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November 7th, 2026
Operations
Edtech.com's Summary
College Board is hiring a Director, Workplace Experience. The role leads the Workplace Experience team that runs College Board's offices in New York City, Reston, Virginia, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a focus on service and hospitality as much as facilities. The director is based on-site in New York, the organization's hub, where they lead the assistant directors and their teams and set the standard for what employees and visitors experience.
Highlights
- Lead and coach the Workplace Experience team across all three offices, set goals tied to College Board's five-year plan, and build staffing and vendor models that flex with Tuesday and Wednesday attendance peaks.
- Own the New York in-person experience from arrival to departure, including being on the floor on peak days to greet people, solve problems, and help set up rooms.
- Ensure retreats, board meetings, and VIP visits run smoothly, serving as senior escalation point for building management, security, and executive stakeholders.
- Establish policies for physical security and access control, space management, meeting support, and building and equipment standards, and ensure health, safety, and emergency protocols are in place in every office.
- Steward the budget across all three offices, review variances, and manage vendors and building teams against documented service levels and quarterly performance reviews, working with Procurement on contracts.
- Build a cross-location dashboard covering attendance, spend per attendee, room usage, request resolution time, and satisfaction, and report monthly to the SVP and Talent on attendance, spending, survey results, and vendor performance.
- Own workplace platforms such as Robin, Jira, and Datawatch to produce executive-ready utilization reports that guide future decisions.
- Eight to ten years managing teams in a high-volume, service-driven environment such as hospitality, workplace experience, corporate services, or events, including leading supervisors or managers.
- Experience managing vendors, contracts, and building teams, with strong facilities knowledge of insurance requirements, building security, and emergency protocols, plus confidence advising senior leaders.
- Hiring range of $100,000 to $130,000, on-site in New York City five days a week, with the ability to lift up to 50 pounds and stand for up to four hours at a time.
Director, Workplace Experience Full Description
Director, Workplace Experience - New York City
College Board - Global Strategy & Talent
Location: This is an in-person role and requires the candidate to be on-site at in our New York City office 5 days a week. All CB employees are required to occasionally travel for business purposes.
Role Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Workplace Experience (WX) team creates environments where employees connect and collaborate to do their best work. We operate three offices (New York City, Reston, Virginia and San Juan, Puerto Rico) and ensure each is safe, welcoming and designed to support College Board's work and mission. WX is a culture-shaping function that supports how we attract, retain, and connect talent. The work includes facilities, but it is centered on service, hospitality, and operational excellence.
About the Opportunity
As Director, you lead WX across all three offices and set the standard for what a colleague or visitor experiences. New York is our hub: five days a week it hosts local employees, team retreats, board meetings and visitors from every location, with peaks on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. You are a visible, hands-on leader. You lead the Assistant Directors and their teams, hold vendors and building partners to clear standards, and make decisions with data. You are warm, dependable, and credible with senior leaders, and you are comfortable rolling up your sleeves to do what needs to get done. You are the person colleagues in New York know to find, and the leader senior stakeholders across all three offices trust.
In this role, you will:
Effectively manage the WX Team (50%)
- Lead and manage the five WX team across New York, Reston and San Juan
- Within the broader College Board five year plan, define aligned priorities and goals with input from senior leaders
- Set SMART goals across the entire team that reflect our priorities
- Track and manage progress to goals, course-correcting as needed in the face of feedback and inputs from colleagues
- Coach constantly to ensure that the experience for colleagues in every office reflects our standards
- Maintain clear role charters, with primary, backup and support lines, so every work stream has an owner and no one is a single point of failure
- Build staffing and vendor models that flex with the Tuesday and Wednesday peaks
- Collaborate as a member of the Talent Leadership team, protecting confidential information and ensuring we work as One College Board to advance our mission
- Travel to Reston and San Juan when a situation requires an on-site presence
New York Flagship Operations (25%)
- Own the outcome and set the standard of the New York in-person experience from arrival to departure for staff and visitors
- Be on the floor on Tuesdays and Wednesdays: greeting, solving problems, anticipating needs, and pitching in which includes moving furniture and setting up rooms to model the ethos you expect
- Ensure retreats, board meetings and VIP visits are seamless, working with the team and event planners
- Serve as the senior escalation point for building management, security and executive stakeholders
- Shape programming direction with purpose: the basics (lunch, snacks, rooms, the greeting) come first, and events come second
- Ensure health, safety and emergency protocols are in place in all three offices
- Establish policies for physical security and access control, space management, meeting support, and building and equipment standards
- Work with tech colleagues to ensure that roles and responsibilities are clear and tech equipment in every cubicle and office works
- Oversee special office programs and projects that run through the New York office, such as archive and records initiatives
Vendor Management & Budget Stewardship (10%)
- Steward the WX budget across all three offices, reviewing variances and deciding where to invest using attendance, usage and satisfaction data
- Manage vendors, building management and maintenance teams, holding them to clear service standards
- Work with Procurement on vendor contracts, and put documented SLAs and quarterly performance reviews in place for key vendors
- Partner with the Office of the CEO, Finance and IT on priorities that depend on the onsite experience
Data, Reporting & Decision-Making (10%)
- Lead with data
- Build and maintain the unified cross-location dashboard (attendance by day, spend per attendee, room usage, request volume and resolution time, satisfaction at minimum, etc.)
- Ensure regular, baseline-setting pulse surveys and check-ins drive reporting and insight-generation
- Benchmark best-in-class workplace and hospitality operations
- Report monthly to the SVP and Talent on, at minimum, attendance, spending, survey results, service levels, and vendor performance
- Generate usable insights and recommendations for action with every report '
- Own all workplace platforms (Robin, Jira, Datawatch, etc.) and leverage them to deliver executive-ready utilization reports that guide future decisions and ensure the safety of our colleagues
About You
- 8-10 years managing teams in a high-volume, service-driven environment (hospitality, workplace experience, corporate services, events or similar), including experience leading supervisors or managers
- A hospitality-forward, service-first mindset and a "nothing is beneath the role" attitude
- A proven ability to drive performance and growth: you set high expectations, deliver real-time, evidence-based feedback, and coach team members to take smart risks, stretch their skills, and achieve meaningful impact
- Track record of delivering a consistent, high-quality in-office experience in a hybrid setting where attendance swings sharply by day
- Experience managing vendors, contracts, property management and building teams, including holding partners to documented service standards and resolving escalations independently.
- Confidence engaging senior leaders and executives, advocating for operational needs and using good judgment under competing priorities.
- Budgeting skills and a data-driven orientation: you can pull, analyze and present attendance, spend and survey data and turn it into recommendations
- Comfort with workplace tools such as Robin or similar booking platforms, Slack and AV systems.
- Strong, proven expertise in facilities operations: such as contracts, insurance requirements, building security and emergency protocols. You can confidently advise senior leaders and guide your team on all of them.
- Sound judgment with confidential information
- The ability to travel 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
- This role requires the ability to lift up to 50 lbs, stand for extended periods (up to 4 hours at a time), and occasionally bend, reach, or kneel to complete job duties
All roles at College Board require:
- 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
About Our Process
- Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
- While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.
What We Offer
At College Board, we offer more than a paycheck: we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.
A Thoughtful Approach to Compensation
- The hiring range for this role is $100,000 -$130,000
- Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the College Board
- We aim to make our best offer upfront, rooted in fairness, transparency, and market data
- We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live
- You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process. Check out our careers page for more
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