Fast Facts
The College Board is seeking a remote Director of Content Engineering to lead a multidisciplinary team in developing structured content systems and workflows. This role involves hands-on expertise in DITA and collaboration across various digital platforms to enhance user experiences.
Responsibilities: Lead and manage a team of content engineers, oversee the development of content structures and processes, improve DITA ecosystems, and collaborate across teams to ensure alignment with product needs.
Skills: Strong leadership in content engineering, expertise in DITA and structured content, experience with Drupal and CMS architectures, excellent communication skills, and ability to mentor teams.
Qualifications: Experience designing structured content models, leading content engineering teams, and supporting active content author communities, along with excellent problem-solving and collaborative skills.
Location: Remote - Virginia, United States of America
Compensation: $80000 - $140000 / Annually
Internal:Director,Content Engineering
College Board -Technology
Location:This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have theoptionof being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employeesare required tooccasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.
Role Type: This is a full-time position
About the Team
The Content Engineering team sits within a multidisciplinary team in the technology group that integrates design, content, and engineering to deliver consistent, scalable user experiences. We support structured content models, authoring ecosystems, metadata standards, and content workflows that power College Board’s digital products and websites.
Our team partners with platform product leadership and serves a broad community of content creators working in DITA, Drupal, HTML-based structured content, and assessment and item-authoring systems. We aim to unify practices, strengthenthe discipline, and support content systems that are robust, maintainable, and flexible for the future.
About the Opportunity
We are seeking a Director of Content Engineering who combines strong people leadership with hands-onexpertisein DITA-based structured authoring. This is a player/coach role;you will guide and grow a multidisciplinary team of content engineers while contributing directly to the evolution of content models, authoring workflows, metadata structures, and publishing systems.
Your leadership will focus on modernizing and strengthening our DITA ecosystem, engaging with an establishedXDocsuser community, and broadening adoption where it provides clear value. At the same time, you will steward a diverse set of content systems, including Drupal-based CMS workflows, headless content APIs, and item authoring platforms.
This is a practical, operational leadership role focused on team excellence, system stewardship, and close collaboration with partners across the organization.
In this role, you will:
Lead and Manage the Content EngineeringTeam (50%)
- Lead a team of six content engineers working across Drupal, DITA/XDocs, headless/decoupled content APIs, and item-authoring systems to develop content structures and processes supporting product teams and goals.
- Provide guidance that respects the diversity of tools and models the team supports, ensuring each engineer develops expertiseappropriate totheir domain.
- Grow the team’s skills in structured content modeling, metadata design, content workflows, and content-system integrations, without assuming all workflows are DITA-based.
- Support team members in navigating different authoring environments and content pipelines, helping them build transferable skills across systems.
- Create clarity around ownership, workflows, and best practices for each content system the team supports.
- Foster a collaborative culture where engineers learn from one another and contribute to shared patterns, tooling, and documentation.
- Ensure you:
- Set vision and priorities for the team, track andmanageprogress 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 CollegeBoard’sOperating Principleseffectively.
- Bring proven leadership experience and consistently embody CollegeBoard’sManager Expectationsin your work.
DITA & Structured Content Leadership (Player/Coach)(30%)
- Serve as the organization’s hands-on expert in DITA and modular structured authoring.
- Work directly withinCollegeBoard’s DITA/XDocsenvironment to improve topic structures, reuse patterns, constraints, specializations, and publishing workflows.
- Expand usage of the current system to includenew contentand to publish for a wider set of platforms and audiences.
- Evaluate current content structures and propose thoughtful, safe evolutions that support greater reuse and flexibility.
- Partner with the product team to prototypenew contentstructures and authoring approaches before driving broader rollout.
- Expand usage of DITA andXDocs, aligning changes with product needs and broader content engineering practices.
Cross-Functional Collaboration(20%)
- Partner with design systems, frontend engineering, product designers, and content creators to ensure structured content aligns with component-driven UI systems and product needs.
- Collaborate with engineering teams on the transformations, APIs, and integrations that connect authoring systems to downstream consumers.
- Provide clear, actionable guidance and documentation that helps teams adopt structured content practices.
About You
- Knowledge of Drupal, decoupled CMS architectures, or content-delivery APIs.
- Deep, hands-onexpertisewith DITA and DITA-based authoring systems (e.g.,XDocsor similar).
- Experience designing,maintaining, and evolving structured content models.
- Experience supporting active author communities on diverse digital platforms.
- Proven ability to lead, transformand mentor teams of content engineers or similar technical/content-focused roles.
- Strong ability to translate ambiguous workflow and content challenges into structured, scalable solutions.
- Demonstrated success collaborating across design, engineering, and content disciplines.
- Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with metadata standards, taxonomies, or content lifecycle governance.
- 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.
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 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
- Residence in the USA &Authorization to work in the United Statesfor any employer
About Our Process
- Application review will beginimmediatelyand will continue until the position is filled.This role is 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, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.
What We Offer
AtCollegeBoard, we offer more than 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$80,000–$140,000.
- 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’llhave open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and whatit’slike to work atCollegeBoard throughout your hiring process. Check outourcareers pageformore.
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