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Engineering Director

College Board · Education · $1.17B budget · 1,968 staff · Since 1900

Why College Board

FY2024 · Form 990Its mission and biggest programs, as filed

Connects students to higher education and career opportunities through college readiness programs, standardized testing like the SAT, Advanced Placement courses, and financial aid planning resources.

  • Advanced Placement Program Founded in 1955, the Advanced Placement program gives students the opportunity to take college-level coursework and exams in high school. Students who succeed on AP exams are more likely to succeed in college and can potentially earn…$453.3M spent in FY2024
  • SAT Suite of Assessments College Board's SAT Suite, which includes the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, PSAT 10, and PSAT 8/9, measures what research shows students need to succeed after high school. It also connects students with fee waivers, scholarship opportunities, free, personalized…$203.7M spent in FY2024
  • College and Career Opportunities and Enrollment By connecting students to colleges and scholarships, and providing access to credit programs, planning tools, and fee waivers for all who need them, College Board is increasing opportunities and breaking down barriers to college…$121.8M spent in FY2024

Before you apply

FY2024 · Form 990Independent: from IRS data, not the org
Pays its leaders
$465K–$2.0M
12 officers reported
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt VII · Sec A
Budget
$963.0M
spent in FY2024
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt I · Ln 18
Staff
1,968
employees
583 volunteers
Fine: from the org's Form 990.
Pt I · Ln 5–6
Spent on programs
85%
of spending
Looks good: 85% of spending went to programs; 75% or more.
Pt IX · Ln 25 · col B
Surplus or deficit
+18%
of revenue, FY2024
Looks good: revenue was at least expenses in the latest filing.
Pt I · Ln 19
Cash reserves
25 mo
of spending, in cash and securities
Looks good: 25.1 months of spending in cash; 3 or more.
Pt X · Ln 1–2 · Pt I · Ln 18
Latest return
FY2024
latest Form 990
Looks good: the latest return is for FY2024, 2 tax years back; within 2 tax years.
IRS e-file
IRS status
501(c)(3)
tax-exempt since 1942
Looks good: listed by the IRS.
IRS BMF
Looks goodFineWorth a lookConcernTap a box for the reason.

About the role

The org's own posting, as written

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…

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About College Board

From its Form 990

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