Engineering Director

Engineering Director   College Board – Technology   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.   Type : This is a full-time position   About Te chnology at College Board   We are a mission-driven engineering team building and evolving the technology that powers and protects the future of learning. Our systems support highly trusted education programs used by millions of students each year, operating at significant scale and public responsibility. Today, we are focused on designing and delivering a critical new initiative that extends our platform in meaningful ways : blending foundational system work with thoughtful experimentation as we adapt to emerging technologies and new learner needs. We combine modern, cloud-native engineering practices with years of platform modernization, security hardening, and large-scale digital delivery, operating as an experiment factory that tests assumptions and iterates based on evidence rather than tradition. What makes this team distinct is the rare combination of meaningful public impact, platform-scale technical challenges, and the freedom to shape how mission-critical systems are built and evolved.   About the Team   Create is a group of cross-functional teams responsible for building and evolving how educators author tasks and assessments. Create Core is the platform team within Create that builds the shared foundations the authoring applications are made from: a rich text editing library, canonical item and task data models, a centralized metadata service, and API s/interfaces for interacting with assessment data .   Core's users are other engineering teams as it builds and maintains foundational libraries and services for our applications. Its repositories run as an internal open-source project that engineers can propose changes to. The team does critical work that the rest of the ecosystem depends on, so quality, developer experience, and accessibility are fundamental aspects of the role.     About the Opportunity      As Engineering Director, Create Core, you will lead the platform team at the center of College Board's authoring ecosystem. This is direct team leadership: you will manage a small group of experienced engineers, work closely with Product to define the roadmap, and be accountable for team health, delivery, and the long-term coherence of the platform.   The role asks you to treat the platform as a product. Your users are the engineers on Create's application teams, and success looks like those teams shipping faster because Core's foundations are solid, well-documented, and easy to adopt. You will prioritize Core's investments against real application needs and steward the contribution model that lets consuming teams help build what they use.   Leaders in this space are expected to operate at or near a senior engineer level in system design and code quality, with the ability to review code, assess technical tradeoffs, and guide teams toward sound implementation decisions .  You will partner closely with the domain's Principal Engineer on technical strategy, with application engineering directors on adoption and boundaries, and with product and design leaders on where the platform goes next. Success in this role is measured by the health and effectiveness of the Core team, the trust application teams place in the platform, the degree to which shared foundations reduce duplicated work, a nd the environment you create for engineers to learn, experiment, and do their best work.     In this role, you will:   Provide Platform Leadership & Delivery ( 4 0 %)   Lead the Create Core team directly, setting clear goals and expectations while enabling engineers to own execution .   Work in close partnership with Product and the application teams to prioritize the Core roadmap, balancing new capabilities against the stability and support obligations.   Run the platform as a product: gather needs from consuming teams, make deliberate build/decline decisions, and communicate direction so application teams can plan against it .   Act as the point of decision for platform scope, adoption sequencing, and cross-team trade-offs involving Core .   Develop deep understanding of the business needs your team serves to provide leadership and consistent messaging around the work of the team.   Technical Leadership & Quality (30%)   Guide the architecture of shared libraries and services.   Hold a high bar for developer experience: documentation, paved paths, reference implementations, and local-first tooling that make Core easy to adopt   Ensure accessibility is built into the foundations, meeting WCAG 2.1 AA across Core components with assistive-technology testing in the definition of done   Partner with the Principal Engineer and architects to evolve data models, editor architecture, and platform boundaries as the ecosystem grows   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.   About you, you have :   7 years’ experience in Agile software application development, applying knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to a broad range of life-cycl