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College Board is hiring a Senior Product Owner, Test Content & Pool Management. The role involves partnering with the Exam Config team to oversee and execute a vision for test content and item pool management within the digital assessment platform. Key tasks include managing backlogs, prioritizing features based on stakeholder feedback, ensuring smooth development processes, and communicating product progress.

Highlights

Main responsibilities include driving execution of test content and item pool management, and managing product backlogs.
Requires experience with Agile product development and digital assessment delivery.
Compensation ranges from $108,000 to $165,000, influenced by location and experience.
Essential qualifications include 5+ years of relevant experience and strong communication skills.
Preferred skills include content engineering and UX design.
Benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance, generous PTO, and retirement benefits.
Opportunities for annual bonuses, merit raises, and professional growth.
Requires ability to travel 4-5 times a year.

Senior Product Owner, Test Content & Pool Management Full Description

Senior Product Owner, Test Content & Pool Management

Remote - USA

Full time

College Board – AP&I / Digital Transformation

100% Remote, working EST

About the Team

As part of the larger AP and Instruction Department, the Digital Transformation Team is a strong and collaborative group of product owners, product managers, content experts, and product development professionals. We are responsible for managing a portfolio of digital assessment and instructional products and leading the work to transition paper assessment programs to College Board’s digital assessment platform. We collaborate closely with colleagues in technology, user experience, operations, assessment design & development, psychometrics and program management to design and develop digital solutions that meet the needs of our users.

About the Opportunity

As the Senior Product Owner, Test Content & Pool Management, you are a motivated, proactive leader who operates with a sense of urgency in solving problems and getting things done. You bring a customer-focused mindset, organizational awareness, and a keen eye for detail. In this role, you will partner closely with the Exam Config team, overseeing their assets—including Neutrino, the test content and pool management application. The Exam Config team is key part of our broader Digital Assessment Platform (DAP) technology team, responsible for digital data exchange. You will drive the execution of the vision and roadmap for test content and item pool management within our internal content management ecosystem, which bridges our authoring platforms and our digital assessment platform.

The internal test content and item pool management system includes:

Item pool and content usage analytics - to monitor overall pool health, drive content development priorities, and trigger item status updates.
Workflow and control features - to ensure the integrity of content sent to downstream systems.

You are technically adept, comfortable participating in technical conversations, and capable of troubleshooting potential production issues. You will directly manage the backlogs for both Neutrino and the Exam Config team, proactively incorporating stakeholder feedback to deliver the highest priority features on the roadmap. You will build strong, productive relationships while guiding and leading a development team to produce tremendous value for our internal and external customers.

In this role, you will:

Deliver priority features on the product roadmap aligned to product vision and organizational priorities (50%)

Collaborate with product managers, product owners, engineering managers, and other stakeholders to plan and sequence work that enables successful feature delivery
Maintain clear, transparent, and prioritized product backlogs; facilitate backlog refinement sessions to ensure the development team has actionable work
Break down features into user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria, written collaboratively but ultimately owned by the Product Owner
Guide daily agile processes with the development team, including sprint planning, daily standups, demos, and retrospectives
Continuously gather data and integrate feedback from product managers, stakeholders, and internal users to evaluate product effectiveness and inform feature prioritization
Use effectiveness data and stakeholder feedback to prioritize new features and sunset outdated or low-value ones
Participate in sprint ceremonies and accept completed work during end-of-sprint reviews/demos, ensuring alignment with product goals
Work with other product owners to manage dependencies, align priorities, and coordinate delivery of complex features
Partner with engineering managers to understand technical constraints and drive product needs through a technical lens

Develop and communicate a product vision, roadmap, and goals (30%)

Collaborate with the product manager to shape and maintain a clear product roadmap aligned to vision and strategy
Develop communications for roadmap; in conjunction with the product manager, convey the product roadmap(s) to the development team
Define feature-level outcomes; given established product-level goals, define goals for each feature (e.g., KPIs, OKRs) aligned to the product vision
Shape resource investment across features; Prioritize use of resources (team time and money) across features and other workstreams
Establish deep understanding of both users and the market; support the product manager in interpreting stakeholder feedback and market data to inform product development

Communicate progress outside of the team (20%)

Provide release information and product updates to internal stakeholders including leading demos, and other tactical communication to increase understanding of the features of the system

About You

You have:

5+ years relevant product owner experience, including experience working on digital assessment delivery
Experience owning product features from inception through design to implementation and launch
Experience working in an Agile product development work environment
Demonstrated understanding of technology including data integration, etc.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to complete complex tasks on short deadlines and in a fast-past environment
Inquisitive mindset with tremendous learning agility
Excellent prioritization and conflict resolution skills
Experience distilling data to inform key decisions
The ability to travel 4-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
Authorization to work in the United States

Additional nice-to-haves:

Experience designing and communicating Objective and Key Results (OKRs), mentoring junior colleagues, creating business cases, and receiving buy-in from senior leadership
Experience in content engineering (strong plus)
Experience with UX design

About Our Process

Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled
While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise and/or panel interview, and reference checks. This is an approximately 8-week process.

About Our Benefits and Compensation

College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.

The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $108,000 to $165,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.

Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on these criteria.

Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:

A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive

You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.

About Our Culture

Our community matters, and we strive to practice and improve our culture daily. Here are some headlines:

We are motivated to positively impact the educational and career trajectories of millions of students a year
We prioritize building a diverse and inclusive team where every employee can thrive, and every voice is heard
We are a dynamic hybrid team, giving staff members the choice to either be fully remote or hybrid if they live close to a College Board office. Hybrid employees go into offices every Tuesday and Wednesday
We value learning and growth; we offer formal and informal ways to lead through your superpowers, sharpen your strengths, and meet your development goals
We know that our impact is strongest together. Our College Board Cares program offers all staff up to $1,000 annual match against partner non-profit organizations
We offer a transparent approach to promotions and merit raises, annual performance-based bonuses, and how to grow your career here over time

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