Fast Facts

Join College Board as a Portfolio Manager in Product Security, responsible for the security and integrity of critical digital platforms. This remote position focuses on aligning security initiatives with organizational priorities and facilitating effective communication across teams.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include aggregating security signals, managing budgets, ensuring alignment of security roadmaps with delivery milestones, and fostering a collaborative environment to address risks and improve processes.

Skills: Required skills include a strong understanding of information security principles, experience in managing security budgets and vendor relationships, and excellent stakeholder engagement and communication capabilities.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include at least 7 years of experience in coordinating security and technology teams, familiarity with modern software delivery environments, and a proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Location: This is a fully remote position, with candidates near CB offices having the option for hybrid work.

Compensation: $120000 - $170000 / Annually

Portfolio Manager,Product Security

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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 College Board Product Security teamis responsible forprotecting the integrity, security, and trustworthiness of College Board’s most critical digital products, including its core digital assessment platforms. These platforms underpin the secure delivery of millions of high-stakes exams each year and are central toCollegeBoard’sfuture ofassessment strategy.

We are a close-knit group of security technologists who work at the intersection of product, engineering, data science, and test security. Our work directly supports clean delivery, exam integrity, and the protection of student dataatnational and global scale. We collaborate daily with product and engineering teams toidentifyrisk early, design secure-by-default systems, and continuously improve how security enables reliable delivery.

The teamoperatesin a cloud-native, DevSecOps environment and activelyleveragesautomation and AI to improve speed, quality, and consistency of security outcomes. We value practical problem solving, clear communication, and thoughtful risk management, and we work to ensure that security decisionsstrengthen trust without slowing delivery of mission-critical programs.

Aboutthe Opportunity 

AsPortfolio Manager, Product Security,you’llplaya critical role in enabling the secure and reliable delivery ofCollegeBoard’s highest-priority digital initiatives. This role serves as the connective tissue between Product Security, engineering, program leadership, and key stakeholders across the organization.You willensurethat security initiatives are aligned to product roadmaps and organizational priorities, that risks and dependencies are visible early, and that product security capacity is applied where it delivers the greatest impact.

You’llownthe aggregation of portfolio- and product-level security signals into clear, actionable views that support informed decision-making. This includes communicating progress, surfacing emerging risks, and helping leaders make deliberate tradeoffs across delivery, improvement, and future-building work. The role emphasizes continuous improvement, disciplined prioritization, and practical risk management in support of clean delivery at scale.

Success in this role requires a collaborative, pragmatic leader who understands both security and delivery, can synthesize complex information across domains, and can communicate clearly with technical and executive stakeholders. The Portfolio Manager helps ensure that security enablesProductSecurity team’s long-term success rather than becoming a bottleneck to mission-critical work.

In this role,you will:

Design & Implementation (60%)

• Aggregate and synthesize portfolio- and product-level security signals, including progress, risks, issues, and key metrics, into clear, actionable views that support decision-making by technical and executive stakeholders.
• Identify, surface, and help drive resolution of cross-team impediments that affect security outcomes, delivery timelines, or exam integrity.
• Monitor portfolio performance to ensure security investments are delivering measurable risk reduction and supporting cleandelivery atscale.
• Partner with Product Security leadership to drive continuous improvement in work intake, prioritization, reporting, and planning practices to better support Bluebook and other mission-critical products.
• Manage security-related budgets and vendor engagements, ensuring spending is aligned to priority outcomes, delivery timelines, and risk reductionobjectives.

Strategy & Communication (20%)

• Own portfolio-level planning, intake, prioritization, and health management for Product Security org,ensuring roadmap commitments and organizational goals are visible,monitored, and driven to completion.
• Partner with Product Security, engineering, and program leadership to continuously align security roadmaps with delivery milestones, risk posture, and organizational priorities for mission-critical digital products.

Team Management (20%)

• Ensure constrained ProductSecurity capacity is applied to the highest-impact work by sequencing initiatives,identifyingtradeoffs, and making dependencies and risks visible early.
• Track progress against Product Security roadmap commitments and goals, proactivelyidentifyingexecution risks, misalignment, or slippage andfacilitatingcorrective action to keep initiatives moving through delivery.
• Foster a transparent, respectful working environment where risks, constraints, and challenges are surfaced early and addressed through collaborative problem solving.
• Facilitate portfolio-level planning and operating cadences, including intake, backlog refinement, planning, and retrospectives, with an emphasis on outcomes and continuous improvement rather than ceremony.

About You

You Have:

• 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience coordinating and prioritizing work across multiple security, engineering, or technology teams in complex environments.
• A strong understanding of information security principles, security compliance, cloud technologies, and modern enterprise architecture, sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams and leadershipis highly preferred.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, and external partners in support of security or technology initiatives, with a focus on aligningspendto risk reduction and delivery outcomes.
• Practical experience working within modern software delivery environments, including scrum- or kanban-based teams, with an emphasis on enabling flow and informed tradeoffs rather than enforcingprocess.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and present clear options to technical and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes across teams without direct authority, building alignment through trust, clarity, and disciplined prioritization.
• Excellent collaboration skills anda track recordof working effectively across security, engineering, product, and program functions.
• Willingness and ability to travel 3–5 times per year to College Board offices and other domestic or international locations, as needed.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

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

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 $120,000–$170,000.
• Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar rolesatthe 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 workatCollegeBoard throughout your hiring process. Check outourcareers pagefor more.

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