College Board
Executive Director, Product Manager: Teamship
Edtech.com's Summary
College Board is hiring an Executive Director, Product Manager for the Teamship program. The role involves leading product development and management efforts to scale the Teamship work-based learning model, connecting classrooms with real-world employer projects and promoting skill-building for students. The Executive Director will drive strategic product priorities, manage a cross-functional team, and ensure the program's equitable and impactful expansion nationwide.
Highlights
- Lead product development and strategy for College Board's work-based learning initiative, Teamship.
- Collaborate with program leadership and stakeholders to set product priorities aligned with economic and mission goals.
- Conduct market research, user interviews, and usability testing to inform product design and features.
- Manage a multi-disciplinary team including service designers and engineers to execute product goals.
- Build tools that help educators guide students through employer-driven projects and support student skill development.
- Require 10+ years of digital product management experience with a demonstrated track record of bringing new products to market.
- Strong project management, communication, and team leadership skills are essential.
- Commitment to educational equity, innovation, and mission-driven work within the education and workforce sectors.
- Compensation range from $184,000 to $250,000 based on experience and location.
- Requires ability to travel 3-5 times per year and authorization to work in the United States.
Executive Director, Product Manager: Teamship Full Description
Executive Director, Product Manager: Teamship
Remote - USA
Full time
Executive Director, Product Manager: Teamship
College Board- Strategy Team
Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The College Board is a mission-driven, not-for-profit organization that aims to clear a path for all students to own their futures. We focus on expanding access to higher education and helping students develop the skills they need for college and career readiness, serving more than 7 million students annually — a reach unparalleled in a fragmented sector.
As part of this mission, College Board is expanding its work at the intersection of education and the workforce through the acquisition of District C, a nonprofit organization and scaling its flagship work-based learning program, Teamship. This acquisition strengthens College Board’s ability to deliver real-world, career-relevant learning experiences that help students build the durable skills employers value most — including collaboration, problem-solving, and communication. Learn more about the acquisition here. This is our first acquisition in over a decade.
Teamship is a work-based learning model in which small teams of students work on real business challenges for real employers, gaining hands-on experience while building confidence, social capital, and transferable skills. Learn more about Teamship here.
Our team is entering an exciting build and scale phase — bringing together College Board’s reach, technology, and operational expertise with the strength of the Teamship model.
We’re assembling a cross-functional group of designers, engineers, product managers, and researchers who thrive on solving meaningful problems to join the Teamship Team to ensure more students have access to meaningful work-based learning and can build the durable skills employers value most.
About the Opportunity
As the founding Product Manager on this team, you will play a key role in shaping the future of College Board’s work-based learning offering and expansion of Teamship.
You will help define and build products that connect classrooms to the real world and build tools that:
- Help educators guide students through authentic, employer-driven projects
- Enable students to practice and strengthen durable skills while building professional connections
- Make it easier for employers to engage with future talent and invest in their communities
This role sits at the intersection of product, education, and workforce innovation. You’ll help scale a model to reach more students and communities nationwide, beginning with a coordinated expansion effort launching in fall 2026. You’ll also help ensure that the experience remains authentic, equitable, and impactful as it grows — balancing the needs of students, educators, and employer partners.
You’ll be part of a team creating something both new and established: building on a successful Teamship program while reimagining how it can operate at national scale to help all students develop skills that last a lifetime.
In this role you will
Lead Product Development (50%)
- Collaborate with the leadership of the program and other key stakeholders to set product priorities that meet economic and mission KPI for the program
- Conduct comprehensive market research and analysis to understand user needs to create a detailed product roadmap
- Spearhead the ideation, design, and development of the program to scale, ensuring alignment with College Board’s mission
- Develop and prioritize product features and requirements based on customer feedback and market needs
- Maintain high standards of quality, usability, and customer satisfaction throughout the product development lifecycle
- Collaborate with team members on user interviews, focus groups, usability tests, etc. to help shape the design and development of products and services
Management (50%)
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team including a service designer and an engineering team to learn, iterate, and execute against priorities
- Establish processes and timelines to evaluate ideas, determine viability, and iteratively test and scale new programs and services
About You
You have:
- 10+ years of digital Product Manager experience
- A track record of evidence as a visionary and strategic thinker with a passion for innovation
- An entrepreneurial spirit and excitement about the opportunity to develop new solutions in an ever-shifting education landscape
- A proven track record of successfully bringing new products to market
- The desire and ability to thrive in ambiguous and fast-paced environments
- A track record of leading and cultivating successful, thriving teams
- Strong project management skills
- Highly effective communication skills and an ability to build relationships across lines of difference
- Evidence of being a distinctive problem-solver, you have a strong ability to apply these skills to a diverse set of problems
- A deep commitment to educational equity and access
- A deep excitement about the challenge of defining and developing a new product and business line from scratch
- Ability to travel on behalf of College Board 3-5 times per year
All roles at College Board require:
- A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and a 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.
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 such as live coding, 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 $184,000-$250,000.
- 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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