Platform Product Manager, BigFuture

College Board – BigFuture

100% Remote, aligned to working core EST hours 

About the Team 

BigFuture reaches over 7 million students each year and is the leading free online resource for College, Scholarship, and Career Exploration. Our BigFuture product team is committed to helping every student own their future. BigFuture consists of three integrated product offerings that serve both students and higher education institutions:

• BigFuture.org provides students and families with tools to explore colleges, discover scholarships, understand how to pay for college, and learn about career pathways. It empowers all students to unlock opportunities that match their aspirations and financial needs.

• BigFuture School is a privacy-forward mobile app that supports students and educators at participating K-12 schools in making critical connections between students’ unique strengths and interests and future pathway opportunities. Students can connect with over 1,500 higher education institutions and receive messages tailored to their interests and goals—putting them in the driver’s seat of their journey.

• College Enrollment Solutions enable higher education institutions to authentically engage in student relevant recruitment efforts to advance college access. Through tools like Search and Connections, colleges can discover and reach a broad population of students from more than 25,000 high schools nationwide.

BigFuture has a 50-person core team and collaborates deeply with other divisions including Technology, Research, College Readiness Assessments, Strategic Higher Education, State & District Partnerships, Engagement and Reach, Legal, and Finance.

About the Opportunity  

As Platform Product Manager, BigFuture, you are a detail-oriented and strategic thinker with a passion for the intricacies of data systems and backend architecture. You bring deep expertise in building and managing complex data products that, like the BigFuture suite, integrate diverse data sources to power personalized user experiences and require strong data logic and governance.

You will lead the product vision and execution for backend data services that power the performance, ensure compliance, and enable scalability across multiple interconnected BigFuture applications. With a strong product management background and fluency in data logic, you will work cross-functionally with Legal, Technology, and other Product teams to ensure data is used responsibly, securely, and effectively in service of our mission.

You collaborate seamlessly across teams, translating technical concepts into clear business value, ensuring alignment on roadmap priorities, and advocating for scalable backend solutions that may be invisible to end users but are critical to delivering impact at scale. Your analytical mindset and commitment to rigorous documentation and performance metrics will ensure solutions are robust, traceable, and trusted. You lead with initiative and clarity, driving outcomes through strong cross-functional partnerships and a commitment to excellence.

In this role, you will:

Planning & Roadmap Development (50%)   

• Assist with crafting compelling strategy briefs, business cases, and product roadmaps to justify product investments aligned with BigFuture’s divisional goals.

• Lead the full product development lifecycle - from ideation and new feature development to enhancements and responsible sunsetting of legacy functionality.

• Identify and validate user problems and opportunities through data, user research, and analytics; ensure customer and business needs are integrated into the development process.

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to refine the product roadmap in response to changing customer needs, market trends, and internal priorities.

• Clearly communicate product strategy and roadmap across cross-functional teams to maintain alignment and support decision-making.  

• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop launch strategies, training materials, documentation, and engagement content.

• Maintain deep industry and market knowledge while serving as a subject matter expert on BigFuture’s platform, vision, and strategy internally and externally.

Execution & Delivery (50%)

• Break down features into user stories with clear acceptance criteria, developed collaboratively with technology, UX, and other stakeholders—while maintaining ownership as the Product Manager.

• Partner with technology managers to understand technical constraints and drive product needs through a technical lens.

• Maint