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College Readiness Assessments
100% Remote (anticipated travel 6-12 times/year)
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 college, career, and life
after high school.The SAT Suite connects students to a wide range of
post-high school opportunities, including scholarships, careers, and
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 Digital Product Management Team is responsible for all educator and
student-facing products that power the delivery of the SAT Suite,
including the products that facilitate the ordering, registration and
reporting of the SAT Suite of Assessments and bookend the digital
assessment platforms known as Test Day Toolkit and Bluebook. The College
Readiness Assessments team\'s product portfolio spans K-12 school,
district and state customers as well as direct to consumer models. We
have a talented team of product managers and product owners with a deep
knowledge of the assessment space, students and educators, and the K-12
market landscape.
With the SAT Suite now fully digital, our states, and the districts and
schools within them, engage with an ecosystem of digital products to
prepare for, administer, and receive results for our assessments. These
products serve tens of thousands of schools, hundreds of thousands of
educators, and millions of students each year.
About the Opportunity
As the Executive Director, SAT Digital Product Management, you will
serve as the overall product lead and portfolio manager for the SAT
Suite of Assessments. You will also oversee our SAT Student Readiness
Products (SRP) and Ancillary Services including change fees, late
registration, score reports, international fees, etc. You will be
responsible for the strategic management of CRA\'s portfolio of products
including: product roadmap, implementation of product enhancements,
day-to-day management of the product; issue resolution; financial
management; and collaboration with the various groups that use and
support the SAT programs. You will lead a team of experienced product
managers and product owners. You will mentor and coach your product team
to ensure each individual contributor is learning and growing as they
contribute to the overall success of our products. Our product leads
bring an end user-focused and organizationally aware mindset; they are
inquisitive and possess tremendous learning agility; they constantly
seek useful information that can shape their products for the good of
those our products serve; and they build strong, productive
relationships while guiding/leading/nurturing their teams and
stakeholders to produce tremendous value for our customers and
stakeholders.
Leveraging your background and experience, you\'ll drive best practices
and methods to help our product organization thrive. You will focus on
strategy across adjacent product teams, including our mission driven
BigFuture vertical. You will identify unique opportunities across
multiple areas of our enterprise product portfolio in ways that
concretely affect product outcomes and exercise your influence to get
things done across the organization.
You will report directly to the VP, SAT Suite Program Delivery &
Innovation as a member of our division\'s senior leadership team. You
will manage two Product Managers each with a team of Product Owners.
In this role, you will:
Product Management (60%)
Lead a team f product managers and product owners to execute on overall
vision/roadmaps, ensuring quality, user experience and delivery goals
are met
Define and manage the product portfolio roadmap to identify short,
medium, and long-term product changes and enhancements that will improve
the user experience, grow participation in the SAT programs and enhance
operational and financial sustainability
Formulate product plans that are driven and informed by regular user and
market research, committee feedback, outreach and interaction with
educators, competitive and metrics analysis and cost/benefit analyses
Direct and supervise all analyses required to develop detailed and
actionable product plans including competitive positioning, product
branding, packaging scenarios, psychometric research support and
delivery models
Be accountable for the successful delivery/launch of any program changes
or enhancements implemented
Demonstrate confidence in making complex tradeoffs and educating all
stakeholders on those tradeoffs through the process
Actively work to resolve blockers and risks for the portfolio and leads
teams to validate assumptions and analyze and communicate trade-offs to
guide portfolio decisions
Understand technical concepts and be able to communicate them to
non-technical audiences