Vice President, Assessment Design & Development

Vice President, Assessment Design & Development College Board – Learning & Assessment Division Location:  This is a remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes. Role Type : This is a full-time position About the Team   Learning & Assessment is College Board's center for researching, designing, delivering, and strengthening high-quality assessments that serve more than 7+ million students annually and advance opportunity around the world. The division brings together 150+ experts in research, psychometrics, and assessment design and development to ensure our assessments are rigorous, accessible, and grounded in evidence. In close partnership with teams across College Board, Learning & Assessment leads innovation in assessment design, ensures valid, reliable, and error-free scores, and provides the evidence and insights that guide program strategy and shape understanding of important educational issues. Assessment Design & Development (AD&D) is L&A's content engine — the team responsible for the item and assessment development that powers the SAT Suite and ACCUPLACER. AD&D is expanding its mandate: beyond sustaining operational excellence for existing programs, the department is building the shared infrastructure to scale assessment item development across programs and designing the new item types and assessments the future of assessments demands.   About the Opportunity    K-12 large-scale assessments are at an inflection point. What we need to measure is shifting — from academic knowledge and skills alone toward the durable and career-relevant skills students will need in an AI-rich world. How we measure it is shifting too, as AI reshapes what's possible in item design, content development, and scoring. And the pace of change itself has become a competitive variable: the organizations that move fastest from idea to validated, operational assessment will set the field’s standard for quality.  AD&D sits at the center of all three shifts — steering it is as much about setting a point of view on where assessment is headed as it is about running the department that gets us there. As Vice President, you will lead AD&D through this expansion — setting the vision and resourcing the Department's expanded mandate, building a newly structured leadership team, and shaping College Board's internal and external point of view on what rigorous, AI-era assessments look like. In this role, you will:  Strategic Vision & Leadership (50%)  Fulfill AD&D's expanded mandate — sustaining operational excellence, scaling assessment content development , and developing new assessments — by setting and resourcing the vision and holding the department accountable to results. Sustain operational excellence across current College Board assessment products — SAT Suite of…