Product Manager, BigFuture School

College Board – BigFuture

100% Remote 

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 the Product Manager for BigFuture School, you are motivated and proactive with a passion for managing details, solving complex problems and driving meaningful outcomes. You'll leverage your strong background in product management and your knowledge of educational technology to execute the strategic roadmap for our BigFuture School mobile app based on market trends, customer needs, and organizational priorities.

You thrive in environments where cross-functional partnerships are essential to success. You’ll collaborate not only with large, dynamic scrum teams but also with colleagues across College Board—Advanced Placement (AP), College Readiness Assessments (CRA), Recruitment & Enrollment (RES) —ensuring our work aligns with integrated, dependency-driven roadmaps and supports broader organizational goals. You make these partnerships feel seamless and energizing, turning interdependencies into opportunities for impact.

You are eager to solicit and analyze feedback from a wide range of stakeholders, including higher ed enrollment leaders, state and district partners, schools, and students, and translate those insights into clear, actionable product decisions. By engaging confidently in technical conversations, building strong relationships, and aligning diverse teams, you’ll ensure feasibility and clarity at every step.

In the face of complexity, you lean in with initiative, demonstrating leadership and influence to rally teams around bold goals and deliver results that matter—for students, educators, and partners alike.

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 maintainin