Director of Content Engineering

Internal: Director, Content Engineering 

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. 

Role Type: This is a full-time position 

About the Team  

The Content Engineering team sits within a multidisciplinary team in the technology group that integrates design, content, and engineering to deliver consistent, scalable user experiences. We support structured content models, authoring ecosystems, metadata standards, and content workflows that power College Board’s digital products and websites. 

Our team partners with platform product leadership and serves a broad community of content creators working in DITA, Drupal, HTML-based structured content, and assessment and item-authoring systems. We aim to unify practices, strengthen the discipline, and support content systems that are robust, maintainable, and flexible for the future. 

About the Opportunity   

We are seeking a Director of Content Engineering who combines strong people leadership with hands-on expertise in DITA-based structured authoring. This is a player/coach role; you will guide and grow a multidisciplinary team of content engineers while contributing directly to the evolution of content models, authoring workflows, metadata structures, and publishing systems. 

Your leadership will focus on modernizing and strengthening our DITA ecosystem, engaging with an established XDocs user community, and broadening adoption where it provides clear value. At the same time, you will steward a diverse set of content systems, including Drupal-based CMS workflows, headless content APIs, and item authoring platforms. 

This is a practical, operational leadership role focused on team excellence, system stewardship, and close collaboration with partners across the organization. 

In this role, you will:  

Lead and Manage the Content Engineering Team (50%)  

• Lead a team of six content engineers working across Drupal, DITA/XDocs, headless/decoupled content APIs, and item-authoring systems to develop content structures and processes supporting product teams and goals.  

• Provide guidance that respects the diversity of tools and models the team supports, ensuring each engineer develops expertise appropriate to their domain. 

• Grow the team’s skills in structured content modeling, metadata design, content workflows, and content-system integrations, without assuming all workflows are DITA-based. 

• Support team members in navigating different authoring environments and content pipelines, helping them build transferable skills across systems. 

• Create clarity around ownership, workflows, and best practices for each content system the team supports. 

• Foster a collaborative culture where engineers learn from one another and contribute to shared patterns, tooling, and documentation. 

• Ensure you:  

• Set vision and priorities for the team, track and manage progress to goals, and provide coaching and support to ensure team members meet and exceed goals, remain engaged,