
Portfolio Manager, Product Security
The College Board
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $170,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Aggregate and synthesize portfolio- and product-level security signals, including progress, risks, issues, and key metrics, into clear, actionable views that support decision-making by technical and executive stakeholders.
- Identify, surface, and help drive resolution of cross-team impediments that affect security outcomes, delivery timelines, or exam integrity.
- Monitor portfolio performance to ensure security investments are delivering measurable risk reduction and supporting clean delivery at scale.
- Partner with Product Security leadership to drive continuous improvement in work intake, prioritization, reporting, and planning practices to better support Bluebook and other mission-critical products.
- Manage security-related budgets and vendor engagements, ensuring spending is aligned to priority outcomes, delivery timelines, and risk reduction objectives.
- Own portfolio-level planning, intake, prioritization, and health management for Product Security org, ensuring roadmap commitments and organizational goals are visible, monitored, and driven to completion.
- Partner with Product Security, engineering, and program leadership to continuously align security roadmaps with delivery milestones, risk posture, and organizational priorities for mission-critical digital products.
- Ensure constrained Product Security capacity is applied to the highest-impact work by sequencing initiatives, identifying tradeoffs, and making dependencies and risks visible early.
- Track progress against Product Security roadmap commitments and goals, proactively identifying execution risks, misalignment, or slippage and facilitating corrective action to keep initiatives moving through delivery.
- Foster a transparent, respectful working environment where risks, constraints, and challenges are surfaced early and addressed through collaborative problem-solving.
- Facilitate portfolio-level planning and operating cadences, including intake, backlog refinement, planning, and retrospectives, with an emphasis on outcomes and continuous improvement rather than ceremony.
Requirements
- 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience coordinating and prioritizing work across multiple security, engineering, or technology teams in complex environments.
- A strong understanding of information security principles, security compliance, cloud technologies, and modern enterprise architecture, sufficient to engage credibly with technical teams and leadership is highly preferred.
- Experience managing budgets, vendors, and external partners in support of security or technology initiatives, with a focus on aligning spend to risk reduction and delivery outcomes.
- Practical experience working within modern software delivery environments, including scrum- or kanban-based teams, with an emphasis on enabling flow and informed tradeoffs rather than enforcing process.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information and present clear options to technical and executive audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to influence outcomes across teams without direct authority, building alignment through trust, clarity, and disciplined prioritization.
- Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of working effectively across security, engineering, product, and program functions.
- Willingness and ability to travel 3–5 times per year to College Board offices and other domestic or international locations, as needed.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Annual bonuses and opportunities for merit-based raises and promotions
- A mission-driven workplace where your impact matters
- A team that invests in your development and success
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
information security principlessecurity compliancecloud technologiesmodern enterprise architecturebudget managementvendor managementscrumkanbanportfolio managementrisk reduction
Soft Skills
stakeholder engagementcommunication skillscollaboration skillsinfluence without authorityproblem-solvingprioritizationtrust buildingclaritycontinuous improvementsynthesis of complex information