Senior Product Manager, Test Security & Platform Defense

College Board•New York, NY

6d•Remote

About The Position

As Senior Product Manager, Test Security & Platform Defense, you are a strategic, highly trusted product leader who thrives in complex, adversarial environments and is motivated by protecting what matters most. You are energized by anticipating risk, navigating ambiguity, and building resilient platform capabilities that safeguard the integrity of high-stakes digital assessments in an increasingly AI-enabled world. In this role, you lead the product strategy for test security and platform defense across College Board’s digital assessment delivery platform. You are accountable for defining and evolving a cohesive, cross-platform roadmap that protects assessment integrity and trust, addressing known risks while anticipating emerging threats and driving innovative, scalable solutions. You actively identify, champion, and shape product opportunities that strengthen assessment integrity at scale. You bring together assessment risk, platform threat intelligence, program priorities, and platform capabilities to frame problems, propose bold solutions, and advance ideas from concept to delivery. You own product strategy and roadmap development for test security and platform defense, synthesizing inputs from Test Security, Platform Threat Intelligence, program leaders, and engineering teams to inform prioritization and translate decisions into an actionable, cross-domain roadmap. This role operates in a highly confidential and security-sensitive context. You are trusted with sensitive information related to assessment integrity, threat vectors, vulnerabilities, and response strategies, and are expected to exercise exceptional judgment, discretion, and rigor in how information is handled, communicated, and shared. You operate in a hub-and-spoke model, setting central strategy, advancing new ideas, and coordinating execution across domain product teams. You are comfortable working in highly technical environments and, when appropriate, can act as a hands-on PM/PO for deeply technical security teams delivering critical platform capabilities.

Requirements

8+ years of product management or related experience, including senior ownership of complex technical platforms.
Experience operating in security-sensitive, adversarial, or high-trust environments (e.g., assessments, identity, fraud, fintech, regulated platforms).
Demonstrated ability to exercise strong judgment and discretion when working with confidential or sensitive information.
Experience defining platform-scale product strategy and setting clear prioritization across complex systems.
Ability to coordinate and influence cross-team work without direct authority.
Proven experience owning and prioritizing backlogs for deeply technical engineering teams.
Strong technical fluency across platform architecture, data, APIs, and system design.
Clear, precise communication skills, especially in complex, high-stakes, or sensitive contexts.
A learner’s mindset and comfort operating in evolving threat landscapes.
The ability to travel 5-7 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business.
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 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.

Responsibilities

Lead Test Security & Platform Defense Product Strategy (30%)
Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for test security and platform defense across the digital assessment platform.
Define priorities based on assessment risk, threat intelligence, program needs, and platform constraints, ensuring a unified approach across current and future programs.
Synthesize inputs from Test Security, Platform Threat Intelligence, field observations, and engineering into clear problem statements, prioritization options, and actionable roadmap proposals.
Proactively identify new problem spaces and solution opportunities, challenging assumptions and advancing innovative approaches to assessment protection.
Maintain a forward-looking roadmap that evolves as threats, business needs, and technology change.
Establish a shared strategic narrative that aligns security, platform, and program leaders around goals, sequencing, and outcomes.
Coordinate Cross-Domain Execution (40%)
Translate product strategy into actionable initiatives implemented across multiple product domains and engineering teams.
Partner with product management leaders to integrate test security and platform defense solutions into domain roadmaps, align sequencing and dependencies across initiatives, and establish consistent security patterns, standards, and platform capabilities.
Engage program VPs as business owners to ensure solutions protect assessment integrity while supporting program-specific requirements and operational realities.
Surface prioritization conflicts and decision points, presenting structured options, risks, and delivery implications to Test Security and Technology, Program, and Product leadership.
Define shared success metrics so progress is measured holistically across teams, not in isolation.
Own and Deliver Critical Security Capabilities (15%)
When appropriate, directly own delivery for specific test security or platform defense capabilities, acting as a hands-on PM/PO for deeply technical engineering teams (e.g., secure client or related components).
Translate complex technical and security requirements into clear backlog priorities, delivery plans, and acceptance criteria.
Stay close to delivery to ensure strategy is grounded in execution realities and technical constraints.
Communicate Risk, Tradeoffs, and Impact (15%)
Communicate clearly and responsibly with senior leadership on security posture, emerging risks, progress against strategy, and key tradeoffs.
Translate highly technical, sensitive, or confidential information into appropriate-level messaging tailored to the audience, maintaining discretion at all times.
Build shared understanding and confidence across product, security, and program leadership through clear narratives, recommendations, and decision framing.
Serve as a trusted voice on test security and platform defense, particularly in moments of ambiguity, risk, or emerging threat response.