Product Design Manager

The College Board • Full-time • Remote (Remote from New York, New York, United States) • $113,000 - $155,000 / year • 1m ago

Fast Facts

The College Board is seeking a Product Design Manager to lead and inspire a team of designers in creating impactful scoring and reporting tools for educational assessments. This remote role involves strategic leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and a strong focus on user-centered design.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include team leadership, overseeing design strategy and execution, ensuring high-quality design solutions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align product goals with user needs.

Skills: Required skills include mastery in user-centered design, strategic planning, research capabilities, and proficiency in design tools like Figma and Miro.

Qualifications: Candidates must have 10+ years of product design experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership role, and a commitment to inclusive and accessible design.

Location: This is a fully remote position based in New York, USA, with occasional travel to College Board offices 4-6 times a year.

Compensation: $113000 - $155000 / Annually

Product Design Manager

College Board -Technology

Location:This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have theoptionof being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).

Type:This is a full-time position

About the Team

The Scoring & Reporting domain delivers the core scoring and score-reporting services that power all College Board assessments, including the SAT Suite, AP, and CLEP. In addition to supporting these mission-critical pipelines, the team develops tools that help educators score free-response work at scale and gain deeper, more actionable insight into student learning. A major focus ahead is building and evolving our own large-scale free-responsescoring, andincorporating AI-assistancein the process. The work spans a mix of long-established products and emerging platforms, with opportunities to modernize, streamline, and elevate the end-to-end experience for students, educators, and institutional partners.

Design is a new and foundational capability in this domain. The Product Design Manager will lead a team of 4–6 designers andestablisha design practice that shapes experiences across operational scoring tools, educator-facing insights, student-facing insights, and formal score reporting to higher education and other audiences. Designers will be embedded in cross-functional teams that work closely with engineering, data science, psychometrics, and product owners, while the manager partners with other design leaders to ensure the domain’s experiences fit cohesively into College Board’s broader platform ecosystem. This is a chance tobuild a team anddefine a design vision in a domain that touches millions of learners and to guide the evolution of products that sit at the heart ofCollegeBoard’s mission.

About the Opportunity 

As the Product Design Manager, you will lead and inspire a team ofservice andproduct designers at various levels (Product Designer, Senior Product Designer, and Lead Product Designer). You willbe responsible foroverseeing the design strategy, ensuring the delivery of high-quality design solutions, and fostering a collaborative and innovative design culture. Your role will involve strategic thinking, team leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and hands-ondesign work.

In this role, you will: 

Team Leadership and Management (40%)

Leadership:Provide direction, mentorship, and support to the product design team, fostering growth and development.
Set vision and priorities for the team,trackand mange progress to goals, and provide coaching and support to ensure team members meet and exceed goals, remain engaged, and contribute meaningfully to our mission
Cultivate an inclusive and high achieving culture that enables all team members to live out College Board’sOperating Principles.
Bring proven leadership experience and consistently embody CollegeBoard’sManager Expectationsin your work.
Team Building:Participatein hiring and onboarding activities to grow a diverse and collaborative design team.
Performance Management:Conduct regular performance reviews, set goals, and provide feedback to team members.
Design Culture:Champion design excellence and contribute to the evolution of design standards and practices.Establish norms of embedded and iterative design work within teams, favoringcross-functional engagement over delivering artifacts.

Design Strategy and Execution (30%)

Strategic Planning:Lead the development and execution of design strategies that align with business goals and user needs.
Systems Thinking:Ensure consistency and scalability across the design team through the thoughtful application and contribution to design systems.
Research Leadership:Oversee generative, formative, and evaluative research efforts to shape product vision and direction.
Design Quality:Elevate the quality of design across teams and products, ensuring adherence to accessibility standards and inclusive design practices.
Artifact Governance:Ensure that design and research artifacts (such as personas, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes) are created and stored in a consistentand discoverablemanner and reflect high quality standards that you help steward.

Cross-Functional Collaboration (20%)

Collaboration:Serve as the designpoint personfor ourcross-functional teams, aligning product, engineering, and research efforts.
Influence:Influence roadmap decisions by connecting user needs with business goals and organizational mission.
Communication:Present research, concepts, and design work clearly and persuasively to peers and stakeholders.

Growth and Development (10%)

Thought Leadership:Contribute to the evolution of design standards, practices, and design system components.
Continuous Learning:Stay current with tools, trends, and design practices, and share knowledge with the team.
Community Engagement:Support design culture through critiques, lunch & learns, and internal community-building.

About You

You bring a user-focused and organizationally aware mindset; you are inquisitive and possess tremendous learning agility; you constantly seek useful information that can shape products for the good of the user; and you build strong, productive relationships while leading your product design team and stakeholders to produce value for our users. The greater the complexity you face, the greater initiative and leadership you assume. You are adept at exercising your influence to get things done across the organization.

To qualify for this role, you must have:

Experience:10+ years of experience in product design, with 3+ years in a leadership or management role.
A strategic and inclusive leadership style:you set clear priorities, build effective team structures, plan for future needs, and foster a culture of belonging.
A proven ability to drive performance and growth:you sethigh expectations, deliver real-time, evidence-based feedback, and coach team members to take smart risks, stretch their skills, and achieve meaningful impact.
Skills:Mastery of user-centered design, systems thinking, design strategy, and problem framing.
Research:Strong skills in research planning, synthesis, and facilitation, with the ability to turn insights into strategic direction.
Design:Excellent visual and interaction design skills, with fluency in tools like Figma, Miro, and Dovetail.
Collaboration:Ability to navigate technical conversations and collaborate effectively with engineers and other stakeholders.
Clear and ConciseCommunication:Excellent storytelling and communication skills, with the ability to influence across disciplines and levels.Both verbal and written.
Passion:A commitment to inclusive, ethical, and accessible design, and a passion for educational equity.
Growth Mindset:Self-motivated, curious, and always looking to improve your craft and impact.
The ability to travel4-6times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business

All roles at College Board require:

A passion forexpandingeducationaland careeropportunitiesand mission-driven work
Authorization to work in the United Statesfor any employer
Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions anda comfortlearning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth:welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receivingtimely, 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 beginimmediatelyand will continue until the position is filled. Thisroleis expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
Whilethehiring processmay vary, it generallyincludes:resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview,interview exercise, a panel interview, apotentialconversation with leadership and reference checks.

What We Offer

AtCollegeBoard, 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’rea 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 $113,000–$155,000.
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 offerupfront—rootedinfairness, transparency, and market data.
We adjust salaries by location to ensure fairness, no matter where you live.

You’llhave open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and whatit’slike to work atCollegeBoard throughout your hiring process. Check out ourcareerspage for more.

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