College Board
Senior Director, SAT Weekend Program Strategy
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $104K - $165K
💻 Project Management
🗓️ August 10th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
College Board is hiring a Senior Director, SAT Weekend Program Strategy to lead the development and alignment of the SAT Weekend program roadmap. This role drives program strategy, product prioritization, and coordinates cross-functional efforts to enhance the student testing experience and support the program's global growth and digital innovation.
Highlights
- Lead SAT Weekend program strategy and prioritize product and policy enhancements based on data and user feedback.
- Develop business cases for new features and improvements, managing cross-functional planning and rollout.
- Collaborate with multiple departments including product, marketing, operations, legal, and technology to align priorities and drive program success.
- Monitor technical initiatives, identify blockers, and serve as liaison in product and technology forums.
- Translate market trends and competitive analyses into strategic program growth initiatives.
- Requires 7+ years in product management, program strategy, or digital platform delivery with experience in EdTech or related sectors.
- Strong skills in roadmap development, business case construction, agile product development, and influencing without authority.
- Must be available to work some Saturdays and be reachable on Sundays for eight designated weekends annually.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
- Salary range: $104,000 - $165,000 per year, with compensation adjusted for location and experience.
Senior Director, SAT Weekend Program Strategy Full Description
Senior Director, SAT Weekend Program Strategy
Remote - USA
Full time
Senior Director, SAT Weekend Program Strategy
College Board - College Readiness Assessments
Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (recommend Tuesday and Wednesday in office).
Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The College Readiness Assessments (CRA) division is a team of mission-driven people who deliver the SAT Suite of Assessments (SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT10, and PSAT 8/9) to millions of students across the world each year to help open their paths to life after high school. The SAT Suite connects students to a wide range of post-high school opportunities, including scholarships, careers, colleges, and universities. In 2023, we retired the use of paper/pencil testing and are now a fully digital SAT Suite offering an assessment that is easier to give, easier to take, more secure, and more relevant.
The SAT Weekend team oversees College Board’s testing model where students register to take the SAT on weekends at a test center near them, both domestically and internationally. The team is responsible for successfully administering the SAT to millions of students every year in over 170 countries, with the goal of driving the SAT Weekend’s continued growth and development as we seek to deliver on our mission for as many students as possible. The team oversees the product roadmap and collaborates closely with various internal and external stakeholders to understand what innovations or enhancements are needed to better serve students and educators.
We focus on continuously improving this program - from registration and readiness to test day delivery - while ensuring high-quality execution, sustainable growth, and student opportunity. With the SAT Suite now fully digital, we are leading efforts to modernize infrastructure, scale globally, and adapt to a rapidly evolving competitive landscape. This role plays a central part in shaping the strategy and technical coordination that will sustain and evolve SAT Weekend into the future.
About the Opportunity
As Senior Director, SAT Weekend Program Strategy, you will lead the development and alignment of our SAT Weekend program roadmap, helping guide the future of one of the most visible and trusted standardized tests in the world. Reporting to the General Manager of SAT Weekend, you will operate at the intersection of product planning, operational strategy, and program policy—driving cross-functional clarity, surfacing the highest-priority feature and policy needs, and ensuring strategic initiatives deliver measurable impact.
In this role, you’ll navigate a highly cross-functional environment, partnering with product, marketing, operations, legal, and tech teams to ensure that SAT Weekend priorities are clearly defined and well-coordinated. You'll translate market signals, program data, and user feedback into clear business cases - whether shaping new registration features, surfacing policy improvements, or scaling mission-driven solutions like free testing and device lending for low-income students.
This is a unique opportunity to lead strategy at a global scale - driving opportunity, access, and digital innovation in a high-impact program that serves millions of students in over 170 countries, while helping to redefine what digital assessment can and should look like.
In this role, you will:
Drive SAT Weekend Program Strategy and Product Prioritization (40%)
- Deeply understand the end-to-end student and test center experience for SAT Weekend as well as our technical capabilities, constraints, and functionality and use data and feedback to identify program-critical enhancements and support informed planning.
- Own and evolve the SAT Weekend program roadmap, tracking feature and policy needs, evaluating their business impact, and advocating for aligned prioritization.
- Develop and apply a consistent methodology to assess the value and implications of proposed changes, enabling consistent, data-driven decision-making across the team.
- Build data-backed business cases for functionality or policy enhancements leveraging research, user feedback, and insights from students, test centers, and internal partners.
- Identify cross-cutting feature sets (e.g., Waitlist, NotifyMe, Home Reserve) and project manage planning and rollout across technical and operational teams to ensure seamless user experience integration.
Deliver Strategic Program Growth and Insight-Driven Planning (30%)
- Collaborate with the General Manager, SAT Weekend to define and drive SAT Weekend strategy, aligned with College Board’s mission, competitive positioning, and evolving student needs.
- Conduct competitive analyses and synthesize student and institutional trends to inform program direction and growth initiatives.
- Represent SAT Weekend priorities in broader College Board strategy conversations and influence decision-making across functions such as Finance, Operations, Comms, Marketing, Legal, and Partnerships.
Coordinate Execution Across Technical and Operational Teams (30%)
- Serve as a strategic liaison in key product and technology forums (e.g., with Bluebook, TDTK, Information Security teams), advocating for SAT Weekend priorities and surfacing program-level impacts and considerations.
- Monitor the status of SAT Weekend-related tech initiatives, identify blockers, and help align delivery teams around shared milestones.
- Partner with internal teams to prepare for product changes, including rollout communications, readiness materials, and documentation updates.
- Establish feedback loops across the organization to capture input from implementation teams and ensure SAT Weekend perspectives inform ongoing product planning.
About You
You bring a strategic mindset, a collaborative spirit, and a deep curiosity about how technology, policy, and test design come together to serve students at scale. You are not a product owner or delivery lead - but you are fluent in how roadmaps are shaped, how priorities are justified, and how to lead through influence in complex systems.
To qualify for this role you must have:
- 7+ years of experience in product management, program strategy, or digital platform delivery (preferably in EdTech, assessments, or adjacent sectors).
- Demonstrated success managing a product or program from vision through launch, with strong stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to develop and maintain roadmaps, build business cases, understand user journeys, and guide requirements gathering efforts in complex environments.
- Strong systems orientation and comfort navigating agile product development, sprint planning, and release cycles.
- A track record of cross-functional leadership—you influence without authority and bring clarity to ambiguity.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills that leverage your comfort with data that resonate with executive, technical, and external audiences.
- The role requires ability to work on Saturdays and be reachable on Sundays for eight specific weekends each year when we deliver the Weekend SAT.
- This position involves some domestic travel (up to 15%, usually 1-3 days at a time) for internal workshops, observing test administrations, and/or giving presentations
- A Bachelor’s degree and MBA or similar advanced degree preferred
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, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership, and reference checks.
What We Offer
At College Board, we offer more than just 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 $104,000 - $165,000 per year.
- 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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