Executive Director, Strategy & Alignment - Enterprise Initiatives

College Board - Engagement and Reach (EaR) Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid. All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes. Role Type: This is a full-time position

• A strong candidate has been identified for this role. If you are interested, please reach out to the recruiter for consideration prior to applying.

About the Opportunity The Executive Director, Strategy and Alignment - Enterprise Initiatives serves as a senior enterprise strategy architect and cross-program governance leader aligned to College Board's highest-priority horizontal strategies (Career, Rural, AI, and future enterprise initiatives). This role operates as a co-architect of enterprise strategy, partnering directly with enterprise and executive leaders to define priorities, clarify business models, resolve cross-program tradeoffs, and ensure measurable business and market impact. The Executive Director is accountable for translating horizontal enterprise strategy into integrated execution across AP, SAT, BigFuture, and other divisions - while designing the governance systems that enable coordinated, high-impact delivery. In addition to leading enterprise initiatives, this role defines and institutionalizes the Strategy & Alignment operating model across Engagement and Reach - establishing decision frameworks, portfolio management standards, performance expectations, and executive review structures that guide all Strategy & Alignment partners. In this role, you will: Serve as the Enterprise Strategy & Alignment Lead

• Sit with enterprise leadership teams as a senior strategic partner and advisor
• Co-develop enterprise priorities, growth hypotheses, and sequencing tradeoffs
• Lead development of integrated EaR strategies aligned to enterprise business objectives
• Resolve cross-program conflicts and clarify ownership across AP, SAT, BigFuture, and supporting divisions
• Escalate strategic risks appropriately and recommend executive-level tradeoffs

Lead Enterprise Business Planning and Go-To-Market Strategy

• Co-own annual and quarterly planning for enterprise initiatives
• Translate enterprise strategy into coordinated product, sales, marketing, communications, and positioning plans
• Identify enterprise growth opportunities across segments and programs
• Define measurable impact frameworks tied to enterprise-level outcomes
• Lead complex, high-visibility enterprise launches and pilots

Drive Enterprise Performance, Reporting, and Executive Visibility

• Establish enterprise-level performance dashboards tied to executive scorecards
• Lead regular performance reviews with enterprise and executive leadership
• Surface underperformance, recommend reallocation, and guide tradeoff decisions
• Ensure measurable movement in enterprise adoption, positioning, and growth indicators
• Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes at VP and ELT levels

What Success Looks Like By the end of the first 12 months, a successful Executive Director, EaR Strategy and Alignment will have:

• Established themselves as a trusted enterprise strategy partner with strong VP- and ELT-level relationships.
• Co-architected and operationalized integrated enterprise strategies aligned to measurable business and positioning outcomes.
• Designed and implemented a unified governance and portfolio management model adopted across Strategy & Alignment roles.
• Reduced time-to-market and cross-functional friction through clarified ownership and sequencing.
• Delivered measurable movement in at least one enterprise growth vector (e.g., rural adoption expansion, career pathway recognition, AI thought leadership positioning tied to institutional partnerships).
• Implemented executive-level dashboards and performance reviews that inform enterprise tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated influence over strategic prioritization and resource allocation decisions.

About You To qualify for this role, you must have:

• 15+ years in business strategy, enterprise marketing, communications, product marketing, consulting, or related fields
• Experience leading cross-enterprise strategy in complex, highly matrixed environments
• Demonstrated success shaping horizontal strategies that cut across multiple product lines or business units
• Strong enterprise marketing and go-to-market expertise
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and resolve high-stakes cross-functional tradeoffs
• Experience designing governance models, decision frameworks, and portfolio management systems
• Goal-, metric-, and data-oriented mindset with experience linking initiative metrics to business outcomes
• Executive presence and credibility in high-ambiguity, high-visibility environments
• Ability to operate autonomously while influencing without direct authority
• Willingness to travel occasionally as needed

All roles at College Board require:

• 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.

About Our Process

• Application review will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
• While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise such as live coding, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.

What We Offer

At College Board, we offer more than just a paycheck-we provide a meaningful career, a supportive team, and 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 $152,000 - $230,000.
• 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.

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