Director, SAT Suite Instructional Strategy and Resource Systems

College Board•Reston, VA

2d•$80,000 - $135,000•Remote

About The Position

The Director, SAT Suite Instructional Strategy & Resource Systems is responsible for defining how the SAT Suite translates into high-impact classroom practice at scale. You will own the instructional vision for national implementation - connecting assessment data to actionable teaching strategies and ensuring that every educator interaction with the SAT Suite is coherent, relevant, and effective. This role brings together Digital SAT, Skills Insight™, the Educator Question Bank, and state standards into a unified instructional ecosystem, enabling educators to move seamlessly from insight to action. You will architect and lead scalable systems that ensure instructional resources are modular, high-quality, and continuously aligned to evolving product and enterprise priorities. Operating at the intersection of product, research, and program strategy, you will set the standard for instructional excellence - translating complexity into clarity and building durable systems that drive measurable impact. Reporting to the Senior Director, SAT Suite Program Access & Instructional Impact, you will shape the instructional foundation that underpins national implementation, ensuring that every resource, tool, and touchpoint advances educator effectiveness and expands student opportunity.

Requirements

M.S. degree in a relevant field and a minimum of 5 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering training programs and content
5+ years of experience in instructional strategy, curriculum design, K–12 assessment implementation, or education systems leadership
Expertise in authoring and publishing systems, including Articulate Storyline 360, Adobe Captivate, and across Adobe Creative Cloud to create multimedia solutions is required
Proven capabilities to develop complex learning materials, including simulations, JavaScript extensions, and multimedia
Expertise in instructional technologies is required; operational experience with LMS technologies and capability to maintain expertise with emerging technologies and standards, xAPI, cmi5
Experience implementing ADA Section 508/WCAG accessibility requirements in training programs
Outstanding professional writing and verbal communication skills
Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work with diverse set of colleagues, across functions and divisions
Strong project management skills
Excellent written communication and executive-level presentation skills
Commitment to educational equity and improving outcomes for students nationwide
Authorization to work in the United States for any employer
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

Nice To Haves

The ability to travel 4-8 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business
Expertise in instructional strategy, assessment-aligned systems, or educator-facing product ecosystems with 10–12+ years leading complex, cross-functional work
Demonstrated experience building scalable instructional frameworks or resource systems and deep understanding of assessment-to-instruction alignment and data-informed teaching practices
Experience leading cross-functional alignment across product, design, and field teams with strong systems-thinking skills and ability to design modular, repeatable frameworks

Responsibilities

Define and drive a clear instructional vision that measurably improves how the SAT Suite shapes classroom practice across states and districts
Establish strategy to translate assessment insights into changes in instructional decision-making, teacher practice, and student outcomes
Ensure instructional strategy leads to increased adoption and effective use of SAT Suite data, particularly in historically underserved communities
Hold accountability for achieving a coherent educator experience that results in consistent, high-quality instructional implementation across contexts
Own the end-to-end effectiveness of the SAT Suite instructional ecosystem, ensuring it drives meaningful educator action and sustained usage—not just resource availability
Design and refine systems that lead to differentiated but actionable implementation pathways, resulting in increased partner uptake and depth of use
Ensure systems enable educators to efficiently translate SAT data into instructional adjustments, improving instructional alignment and student readiness outcomes
Eliminate fragmentation by driving a unified system that increases usability, reduces friction, and leads to higher rates of educator engagement and repeat use
Define and uphold clear expectations so that instructional materials are consistently used to inform teaching decisions, rather than merely accessed.
Ensure all frameworks and resources directly support educator actions (e.g., planning, reteaching, differentiation) that improve student performance
Drive consistency and clarity across educator-facing materials so educators can reliably apply SAT insights without additional interpretation or support
Hold accountability for quality as measured by impact on instructional shifts, not just completion or distribution of materials
Own outcomes related to the relevance, timeliness, and effectiveness of instructional materials, ensuring they drive partner action aligned to product and GTM priorities
Establish governance processes that enable faster, higher-quality decision-making and ensure materials lead to measurable improvements in partner implementation
Partner cross-functionally to ensure instructional systems influence product usage, field enablement, and partner success metrics—not operate as standalone resources
Ensure coherence across the ecosystem results in increased partner execution (e.g., aligned use of Digital SAT, Skills Insight™, Question Bank) and reduced duplication in practice
Use adoption data, educator behavior, and partner outcomes to continuously prioritize and drive the highest-impact improvements