Senior Director, AP Product Strategy, Analytics & Intelligence
College Board – AP&I
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.
Role Type : This is a full-time position
About the Team
The College Board 's Advanced Placement and Instruction (AP&I) division develops and administers coursework and exams taken by almost 4 million students worldwide each school year. Thousands of colleges and universities use AP scores to award college credit and to help students advance further in their studies.
The AP Product Strategy department in the AP&I division identifies and evaluates new program opportunities. This includes ways to expand AP's value proposition and to secure AP's value to students and families. We identify, evaluate, and incubate high-impact ideas that shape the future of AP. These ideas expand access, strengthen AP's value proposition, and guide what we build next. Our goal is to broaden the number of students who succeed in rigorous courses and earn credit opportunities that accelerate them on their paths after high school.
We are a team of versatile, high-performing individuals who work closely with leaders across College Board to inform strategic initiatives for the AP Program.
About the Opportunity
As Senior Director, AP Product Strategy, Analytics & Intelligence, you bring statistical rigor to a process where accuracy matters. You understand the risk calculus involved in forecasting for an organization this size. You exercise sound judgment about when projections should hold and when they should move. You are an effective communicator to all stakeholders involved when you first release the forecast and when it changes. You also contribute statistical expertise to the team's broader work on what drives and limits AP participation and success. You are equally comfortable testing a new modeling technique, digging into a supply and demand question, or turning around a fast-moving analytic request. You enjoy learning and applying new analytic tools and approaches on the job. You take satisfaction in helping colleagues, junior and senior alike, sharpen their own forecasting and statistical thinking.
In this role, you will own and advance the volume projection models that inform how AP sets goals, tracks progress, and communicates expectations. Your work matters to Strategic Finance, State and District Partnerships, the Office of the President, and the Office of the CEO, as well as colleagues across AP. It connects near-term in-cycle registration tracking to a longer-term forecast horizon. That longer-term work will eventually help track progress toward AP's 2040 goal for student participation and success, while also helping to identify new opportunities for accelerating toward that goal.
In this role, you will:
Lead Current-Year AP Volume Forecasting (25%)
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Exercise independent judgment on whether shifts in registration data signal real risk or noise, decide when the forecast should hold or move, and balance risk of inaccurate forecasts to operational and financial impacts.
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Diagnose the underlying drivers of forecast shifts by gathering context from other constituents and historical data, and communicate findings and prescribed responses to all stakeholder groups
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Document assumptions, inputs, and changes each cycle
Advance Long-Term, AI/ML-Driven Volume Projection Modeling (40%)
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Develop and refine the future-year AP volume projection model, incorporating school-level data
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Apply and test AI/ML forecasting techniques to improve model accuracy and extend the forecast horizon
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Manage forecast risk across constituent groups, applying sound judgment on when to hold or revise projections
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Lay groundwork to eventually connect volume projections to AP's 2040 participation goal
Analyze Supply and Demand Issues Facing AP to Inform College Board ’s Long-Te