Engineering Manager

About the role

The role is a full-time position as an Engineering Manager within the Core Assessment Platforms team at College Board. This is a remote role, with the option to be fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office). All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.

Responsibilities

• Sort through options for solutioning, leveraging your own technical expertise.
• Craft and execute a technology strategy to deliver on the product roadmap with senior engineers, in partnership with the product owner and designer.
• Continue to learn and stay current with the state of software engineering, sharing that knowledge within the team to support best practices.
• Review and occasionally write code yourself using preferred technologies including TypeScript, React, NodeJS.
• Manage scope and actively work against developing technical debt.
• Maintain and monitor costs, working with internal resources to optimize the cost and performance of applications.
• Approach every feature with a security-sensitive perspective.
• Build a highly engaged, and high-performing team (30%).
• Cultivate norms that support strong communication, a positive working culture, and an engaged team.
• Define ceremonies that support your high-performing Agile team, while maximizing productive work time.
• Actively cultivate the superpowers of team members and leverage these to develop products.
• Support diversity and inclusion from the perspectives of demographics, skills, and experience.
• Manage work culture to ensure the mission and operating principles of College Board are consistently recognized and utilized to promote a productive and fair work environment.
• Support and invest in the growth of your team members.
• Interface with business partners and technology colleagues (30%):
• Develop deep understanding of the business needs your team serves to provide thought leadership and consistent messaging around the work of the team.
• Develop strong working relationships with business and product partners to understand the nuances of the complex systems supported by your product.
• Manage scope and workload, working with product owners to deliver the most valuable work first.
• Provide subject matter expertise to other teams and support with resources from your own team as appropriate.

Requirements

• 7 years’ experience in Agile software application development, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of life-cycle activities to meet the requirements for highly secure, data-heavy applications.
• Proven expertise delivering web-based products or platform-level features in cloud-first environment using modern development tools.
• Written and reviewed production code using preferred technologies: TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, React.
• Experience managing teams of 4 to 8 direct reports, including both junior-level and higher-level individual contributors.
• Accountability for the technical output of the team, either through personal experience or strong communication with engineers.
• Experience overseeing product or platform features, infrastructure, and vendor management, ensuring compliance with internal policies.
• Comprehensive experience in all aspects of people management, including hiring, engaging, and developing team members, with a proven track record of successful leadership.
• Experience leading engineering and architecture discussions, bringing stakeholders to agreement.
• Exceptional planning, prioritization, and execution skills, delivering results on time and on budget in fast-paced environments.
• Experience establishing new teams and laying foundation for new products, ideally within a large organization.
• Outstanding communication and leadership abilities, building trust quickly across teams and levels, and effectively coaching team members with timely, balanced feedback.
• Able to travel 3-5 times a year to our NYC or Reston, VA office.

Qualifications

• Authorization to work in the United States for any employer.
• 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 a comfort 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 receiving timely, 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.

Skills

• Strong technical judgment grounded in hands-on engineering experience.
• Ability to design and evaluate AWS-based architectures with best practices.
• Experience managing teams of 4 to 8 direct reports, including both junior-level and higher-level individual contributors.
• Accountability for the technical output of the team, either through personal experience or strong communication with engineers.
• Experience overseeing product or platform features, infrastructure, and vendor management, ensuring compliance with internal policies.
• Comprehensive experience in all aspects of people management, including hiring, engaging, and developing team members, with a proven track record of successful leadership.
• Experience leading engineering and architecture discussions, bringing stakeholders to agreement.
• Exceptional planning, prioritization, and execution skills, delivering results on time and on budget in fast-paced environments.
• Experience establishing new teams and laying foundation for new products, ideally within a large organization.
• Outstanding communication and leadership abilities, building trust quickly across teams and levels, and effectively coaching team members with timely, balanced feedback.
• Able to travel 3-5 times a year to our NYC or Reston, VA office.

Benefits

At College Board, we offer a comprehensive package designed to help you thrive. We’re a 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 $125,000 - $170,000 Your exact salary will depend on your location, experience, and how your background compares to others in similar roles at the 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.

Pay

The role is offered a salary range of $125,000 - $170,000 per year, depending on location, experience, and market data.

Schedule

This is a full-time position with occasional travel to meet in person for business purposes.