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This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12903008 College Board - College Readiness Assessments / Digital Product Management

100% Remote

(anticipated travel of 1-2 times/month)

About the Team

The College Readiness Assessments (CRA) division, comprised of approximately 40 mission-driven individuals, annually delivers the SAT Suite of Assessments (SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT10, and PSAT 8/9) to millions of students worldwide, with the aim of shaping their paths to college, career, and life after high school.

Within CRA, the Digital Product Management team is responsible for all educator and student-facing products that power the delivery of the SAT Suite. This includes products that facilitate ordering, registration and reporting of the assessments, and bookend the digital assessment platforms known as Test Day Toolkit and Bluebook. We are a talented team of eight product managers and product owners with deep knowledge of the assessment space, students, educators, and the K12 market. Our product portfolio spans K12 schools, districts, states customers, and direct-to -consumer business models.

A significant channel through which our assessments reach students is via multi-year contracts with states committed to providing SAT Suite opportunities to all their students. Many of these states also use the SAT Suite to meet federal accountability requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Now that the SAT Suite is fully digital, our states, districts and schools engage with an ecosystem of digital products to prepare for, administer, and receive assessment results. These products serve tens of thousands of schools, hundreds of thousands of educators, and millions of students each year.

About the Opportunity

As the Senior Product Manager, K12 State Data Management and Reporting, you are a customer-focused and organizationally aware leader with a keen eye for detail. You will utilize your inquisitive mindset and learning agility to gain a thorough understanding of our current state contracts and RFP commitments. You will build relationships directly with our senior state contract leads across the country. You will collaborate with the College Board state implementation teams, to ensure that access to college readiness assessments does not represent a barrier to accessing higher education and other post-high school opportunities. You will serve as product manager, implementation consultant, School and District Partnership team liaison, and partner to our state data management and state data exchange development teams, working closely with their engineering manager.

Your responsibilities extend to internalizing the current list of product features that are externally committed or contractually required to meet the bespoke needs of our valuable state partners. By leveraging customer metrics and insights, you\'ll identify desired improvements and enhancements. Collaborating directly with architects and engineering managers, you\'ll craft a vision and prioritized feature roadmap that satisfies the greatest number of core user problems and needs. You will be a critical partner to CRA\'s program and product leadership, backed by unwavering senior leadership support to establish the digital SAT as the premier standardized assessment of choice for our current and prospective state partners.

Your proactive approach involves seeking useful information to shape our products for the good of the user, while simultaneously building strong, productive relationships with teams and stakeholders. As you navigate complexity, your initiative and leadership come to the fore, allowing you to influence outcomes across the organization. Your ability to seek insights, lead teams, and drive value for our customers makes you an invaluable asset to our mission-driven work.

In his role you will:

Product Vision and Roadmap Development (35%)

• Develop and communicate the product vision and roadmap for our state partners, adapting it as market needs and internal priorities evolve
• Ensure alignment of product roadmap to market/customer needs, organizational goals, and priorities
• Gain understanding of customer needs and validate solutions
• Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities to reduce operational complexity and risk
• Proactively define and communicate Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) for the products that drive action focused on outcomes (vs. outputs)

Market Understanding and Insights (20%)

• Establish and maintain a deep understanding of the market including the competitive landscape, trends in the market, customer needs and market requirements
• Consistently gather market data and user feedback to shape the product roadmap and enhance user experience
• Stay informed about market trends and key requirements
• Monitor competitive offerings and alternative solutions in the market

Feature Delivery and Implementation (30%)

Deliver the highest priority features on the roadmap that are aligned to product vision and organizational priorities

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