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College Board is hiring a Portfolio Manager, Product Security. The role involves coordinating and prioritizing security initiatives aligned with product roadmaps, aggregating security metrics, resolving cross-team impediments, and managing budgets to ensure secure and reliable delivery of critical digital assessment platforms. The position requires collaboration with engineering, program leadership, and stakeholders to manage risks, capacity, and progress in a cloud-native, DevSecOps environment.

Highlights

Aggregate and synthesize portfolio- and product-level security progress, risks, and metrics for technical and executive decision-making.
Identify and resolve cross-team impediments affecting security, delivery timelines, or exam integrity.
Monitor portfolio performance to ensure security investments achieve risk reduction and support clean delivery at scale.
Drive continuous improvement in intake, prioritization, reporting, and planning practices.
Manage security budgets and vendor relationships aligned to priority outcomes and risk mitigation.
Own portfolio-level planning, prioritization, and health management to ensure roadmap commitments and goals are met.
Ensure Product Security capacity focuses on highest-impact work by sequencing initiatives and making risks visible early.
7+ years of experience coordinating security, engineering, or technology work in complex environments.
Strong understanding of information security principles, compliance, cloud technologies, and enterprise architecture preferred.
Experience with scrum/kanban software delivery, budget and vendor management, and strong stakeholder communication skills.
Willingness to travel 3-5 times per year and authorization to work in the U.S.
Compensation range: $120,000–$170,000, adjusted by location and experience.
Work supports College Board's mission of securing core digital assessment platforms protecting millions of high-stakes exams annually.

Portfolio Manager, Product Security Full Description

Portfolio Manager, Product Security

College Board - Technology

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 Product Security team is responsible for protecting the integrity, security, and trustworthiness of College Board's most critical digital products, including its core digital assessment platforms. These platforms underpin the secure delivery of millions of high-stakes exams each year and are central to College Board's future of assessment strategy.

We are a close-knit group of security technologists who work at the intersection of product, engineering, data science, and test security. Our work directly supports clean delivery, exam integrity, and the protection of student data at national and global scale. We collaborate daily with product and engineering teams to identify risk early, design secure-by-default systems, and continuously improve how security enables reliable delivery.

The team operates in a cloud-native, DevSecOps environment and actively leverages automation and AI to improve speed, quality, and consistency of security outcomes. We value practical problem solving, clear communication, and thoughtful risk management, and we work to ensure that security decisions strengthen trust without slowing delivery of mission-critical programs.

About the Opportunity

As Portfolio Manager, Product Security, you'll play a critical role in enabling the secure and reliable delivery of College Board's highest-priority digital initiatives. This role serves as the connective tissue between Product Security, engineering, program leadership, and key stakeholders across the organization. You will ensure that security initiatives are aligned to product roadmaps and organizational priorities, that risks and dependencies are visible early, and that product security capacity is applied where it delivers the greatest impact.

You'll own the aggregation of portfolio- and product-level security signals into clear, actionable views that support informed decision-making. This includes communicating progress, surfacing emerging risks, and helping leaders make deliberate tradeoffs across delivery, improvement, and future-building work. The role emphasizes continuous improvement, disciplined prioritization, and practical risk management in support of clean delivery at scale.

Success in this role requires a collaborative, pragmatic leader who understands both security and delivery, can synthesize complex information across domains, and can communicate clearly with technical and executive stakeholders. The Portfolio Manager helps ensure that security enables Product Security team's long-term success rather than becoming a bottleneck to mission-critical work.

In this role, you will:

Design & Implementation (60%)

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.

Strategy & Communication (20%)

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.

Team Management (20%)

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.

About You

You Have:

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.

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

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 $120,000-$170,000.
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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