Senior Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights

Senior Director, Strategic Execution & Performance Insights  

College Board – Office of the CEO  

Location: This is a fully remote role. Candidates who live near CB offices have the option of being fully remote or hybrid (Tuesday and Wednesday in office).     

Type:   This is a full-time position   

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