Portfolio Manager, Product Security

College Board

1d•$120,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

As Portfolio Manager, Product Security, you’ll play a critical role in enabling the secure and reliable delivery of College Board’s highest-priority digital initiatives. This role serves as the connective tissue between Product Security, engineering, program leadership, and key stakeholders across the organization. You will ensure that security initiatives are aligned to product roadmaps and organizational priorities, that risks and dependencies are visible early, and that product security capacity is applied where it delivers the greatest impact. You’ll own the aggregation of portfolio- and product-level security signals into clear, actionable views that support informed decision-making. This includes communicating progress, surfacing emerging risks, and helping leaders make deliberate tradeoffs across delivery, improvement, and future-building work. The role emphasizes continuous improvement, disciplined prioritization, and practical risk management in support of clean delivery at scale. Success in this role requires a collaborative, pragmatic leader who understands both security and delivery, can synthesize complex information across domains, and can communicate clearly with technical and executive stakeholders. The Portfolio Manager helps ensure that security enables Product Security team’s long-term success rather than becoming a bottleneck to mission-critical work.

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.
A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
Curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies, with a willingness to experiment with and adopt new AI-driven solutions and comfort with learning and applying new digital tools independently and proactively.
Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
A learner's mindset and a commitment to growth: welcoming diverse perspectives, giving and receiving timely, respectful feedback, and continuously improving through iterative learning and user input.
A drive for impact and excellence: solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
A collaborative and empathetic approach: working across differences, fostering trust, and contributing to a culture of shared success

Responsibilities

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.