Executive Director, AP Assessment Production Management

📋 Description

• • The Executive Director, AP Assessment Production Management is a senior leadership role responsible for leading the end-to-end process management of insourced AP exam development across 40+ courses, ensuring reliable, on-time delivery of high-quality assessment forms at scale. This role sits at the center of a complex, cross-functional ecosystem, serving as a key operational and strategic partner to senior leadership on AP Production & Delivery, AP Curriculum & Assessment, and other senior leaders to drive alignment, execution, and continuous improvement during a period of rapid growth and transformation in the AP Program.
• • Day to day, the Executive Director will lead end-to-end delivery of insourced AP Exam production across 40+ courses, ensuring 130+ forms are completed on time and within established windows aligned to annual administration dates; oversee large-scale production and process management across thousands of items, maintaining quality, timelines, and operational rigor; drive prioritization and resolution of ~6,000+ assessment items, proactively identifying risks and removing barriers to production; oversee execution across multiple production models (digital, print, hybrid, accommodated), ensuring continuous improvement and operational effectiveness; serve as a primary partner to senior leaders (e.g., Curriculum & Assessment Department Heads), ensuring alignment, visibility, and execution across the portfolio of AP courses; design and implement scalable processes, tools, and operating models to support a fully insourced assessment production function; build and manage an integrated process management ecosystem enabling visibility across 10,000+ workflow steps and deliverables; proactively assess and manage dependencies on cross-functional team capacity, driving alignment on priorities, surfacing constraints, and ensuring realistic, achievable production commitments; own and operationalize a clear role clarity and accountability framework across Director, Senior Director, and Executive Director levels, ensuring work is executed at the appropriate level and aligned to defined ownership expectations; lead a team of 20+ team members responsible for course-level end-to-end production and process management of insourced AP exam development; lead a manager-of-managers structure, providing strategic oversight to Senior Directors and empowering high-performing teams; set vision and priorities for the team, track and manage progress to goals, and provide coaching and support to ensure team members meet and exceed goals, remain engaged, and contribute meaningfully to the mission; cultivate an inclusive and high-achieving culture that enables all team members to live out College Board’s Operating Principles effectively; bring proven leadership experience and consistently embody College Board’s Manager Expectations in work.
• • The Assessment Production team is part of the College Board’s AP&I division, overseeing the end-to-end production and process management of insourced AP exam development. The AP program is a rigorous academic program built on the commitment, passion and hard work of students and educators from secondary schools and higher education, offering willing and academically prepared high school students the opportunity to study and learn at the college level across almost 40 courses in a wide variety of subject areas. The program is rapidly expanding its development of instructional and assessment products under the leadership of the growing Assessment Production team.
• • In this role, the person will build and sustain an integrated production management ecosystem that enables visibility, coordination, and control across a multitude of interdependent workflows and deliverables. They will design scalable systems, tools, and processes that support multiple production modalities and position the organization for full insourcing, increased volume, and future portfolio expansion, while balancing immediate delivery demands with long-term operational resilience. They will develop strategic and inclusive leadership skills, set clear priorities, build effective team structures, plan for future needs, and foster a culture of belonging. They will gain experience using innovative thinking and data to inform decisions and actions, demonstrate fluency with emerging technologies including AI-enabled tools, and apply them strategically to inform multi-year project planning while modeling effective and responsible use of AI to empower Assessment Production Management leaders and teams.