Senior Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights

About the Team    

The Office of the CEO is a small, high-leverage enterprise team that operates at the center of the College Board, working directly with the CEO, President, and senior leaders to strengthen and accelerate mission impact. The Office of the CEO brings together executive leadership support and enterprise execution to ensure the organization moves in a coherent, disciplined, and aligned way—connecting strategy to action and enabling leaders to focus on what matters most for students. 

Within the Office of the CEO, the Strategic Execution & Performance Insights team serves as the execution and performance arm of the Offices of the CEO and President. The team owns the enterprise operating system the College Board uses to set priorities, execute strategy, and monitor progress. Through a deep understanding of mission metrics, organizational dynamics, and cross-divisional interdependencies, the team governs enterprise planning and performance frameworks, including strategic agendas, execution operating rhythms, performance dashboards, early-warning indicators, and quarterly learning cycles. By aligning leaders around a shared narrative, cadence, and set of expectations—and by modernizing the systems that support collaboration and decision-making—the team helps the College Board execute with focus, agility, and a relentless commitment to improving outcomes for students. 

About the Opportunity   

As the Senior Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights, you are accountable for the enterprise performance insight function that powers effective strategic execution. Reporting to the Executive Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights, you ensure that execution progress is measurable, interpretable, and actionable for senior leaders across the organization. 

In this role, you build and steward the enterprise performance framework, ensuring that priority initiatives are supported by clear metrics, baselines, leading indicators, and early-warning signals. You translate complex data and qualitative signals into clear, synthesized insight that helps leaders understand what is happening, why it matters, and where decisions or intervention are required. 

This role requires strong analytical judgment and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous conditions. While you are responsible for ensuring that dashboards and recurring reports exist and are reliable, success in this role is defined by insight quality and decision impact—not by the volume of reporting. You surface risks early, reduce leadership surprise, and ensure that performance insight meaningfully informs execution decisions at moments that matter most. You also bring a forward-looking perspective on how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping performance insight, and you translate that perspective into practical, enterprise-ready solutions. 

In this role, you will:   

Enterprise Performance Framework & Dashboards (35%) 

• Define and maintain standardized enterprise metrics, baselines, leading indicators, and early-warning signals for priority initiatives 

• Ensure core dashboards and recurring reports provide clear, trusted visibility into execution progress and risk 

• Partner with Technology to translate performance insight needs into clear, forward-looking business requirements, incorporating emerging AI-enabled capabilities as appropriate (e.g., automated insight generation, anomaly detection, natural language interaction) 

• Continuously refine dashboards and reports based on leadership use and decision needs 

• Evolve the design of dashboards and reporting by integrating AI-enabled approaches that improve usability, speed, and depth of insight (e.g., reducing manual reporting, enabling self-service exploration, surfacing proactive insights) 

Performance Synthesis & Insight (35%) 

• Produce clear, synthesized analyses that surface progress, risks, patterns, and implications for leadership decision-making 

• Integrate quantitative data with qualitative insight to provide a coherent picture of execution health 

• Deliver deeper insight at key planning, review, and escalation moments 

• Ensure insight products move beyond status to inform decisions and action 

• Identify and prioritize opportunities to apply AI to improve how execution data is analyzed, interpreted, and delivered to leaders 

Execution Risk Detection & Escalation (20%) 

• Identify execution risk, drift, or misalignment early through data and qualitative signals 

• Elevate risks and implications to the Executive Director with sufficient lead time for intervention 

• Track recurring execution risk patterns and inform system-level improvements 

Collaboration & Influence (10%) 

• Work closely with initiative owners, Technology, and enterprise partners to improve data quality and insight relevance 

• Build strong relationships with leaders to ensure performance insight is trusted and used 

• Model clarity, rigor, and judgment in enterprise performance discussions 

About You   

You have:   

• 8+ years of experience in performance analytics, strategy, execution insight, or related roles in complex organizations 

• A strong track record of translating data into clear, decision-relevant insight for senior leaders 

• Experience designing dashboards and recurring reports that leaders actually use 

• Strong synthesis skills and the ability to integrate quantitative and qualitative signals 

• Comfort operating in ambiguity and surfacing risk before outcomes are certain 

• Experience partnering with technical teams (data, engineering, analytics, etc.) to deliver data products or dashboards from concept through implementation and influencing without formal authority 

• A strong understanding of how AI is transforming analytics, dashboards, and decision support, with the ability to translate emerging capabilities into practical applications 

• A bias toward clarity, learning, and action over perfect information 

• A commitment to improving outcomes for students and advancing the College Board’s mission

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   All roles at College Board require:  

• A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work 

• Authorization to work in the United States for any employer 

• 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     

• While the hiring process may vary, it generally includes: resume and application submission, recruiter phone/video screen, hiring manager interview, performance exercise, a panel interview, a conversation with leadership and reference checks.      

About Our Benefits and Compensation   

College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.    

The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $112,000 to $170,000. College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.    

Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.    

Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:      

• A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more   

• Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility   

• A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive   

You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.   

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