Senior Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights

College Board

Job Overview

Location

Remote - USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As Senior Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights at College Board, you will lead the enterprise performance insight function that powers strategic execution, ensuring progress is measurable, interpretable, and actionable for senior leaders across the organization.
• You will build and steward the enterprise performance framework, defining standardized metrics, baselines, leading indicators, and early-warning signals for priority initiatives, while translating complex data and qualitative signals into clear, synthesized insights that inform leadership decisions.
• You will partner with Technology to evolve dashboards and reporting by integrating AI-enabled capabilities such as automated insight generation, anomaly detection, and natural language interaction to improve usability, speed, and depth of insight.
• You will identify execution risks early through data and qualitative signals, elevate them to the Executive Director with sufficient lead time for intervention, and track recurring patterns to inform system-level improvements.
• You will work closely with initiative owners, Technology, and enterprise partners to improve data quality and insight relevance, building strong relationships with leaders to ensure performance insight is trusted and used in decision-making.
• You will operate in a high-leverage enterprise team within the Office of the CEO, working directly with the CEO, President, and senior leaders to strengthen and accelerate mission impact by connecting strategy to action.
• You will contribute to College Board’s mission of expanding educational and career opportunities by ensuring leaders focus on what matters most for students through disciplined, aligned execution.
• You will develop expertise in applying AI and emerging technologies to performance insight, translating technical capabilities into practical, enterprise-ready solutions that support agile, data-informed decision-making.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in performance analytics, strategy, execution insight, or related roles in complex organizations
• Proven track record of translating data into clear, decision-relevant insight for senior leaders
• Experience designing dashboards and recurring reports that leaders actually use
• Strong synthesis skills with the ability to integrate quantitative and qualitative signals
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and surfacing risk before outcomes are certain
• Experience partnering with technical teams (data, engineering, analytics) to deliver data products or dashboards from concept through implementation, including influencing without formal authority
• Understanding of how AI is transforming analytics, dashboards, and decision support, with ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical applications

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, and retirement benefits
• Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time via 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 in a mission-driven organization focused on expanding educational opportunities

Skills & Technologies

Senior

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College Board is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1900 that develops and administers standardized tests, curricula, and programs to expand access to higher education. It owns and operates the SAT, PSAT, AP, and CLEP examinations, supports college planning tools, and partners with schools and universities to promote college readiness. The organization also offers scholarship search services and data-driven research reports on educational trends and equity.

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