Director, Research Operations

Director, Research Operations College Board - Learning and Assessment 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 Learning & Assessment is College Board's center for researching, designing, delivering, and strengthening high-quality assessments that serve more than 7+ million students annually and advance opportunities around the world. The division brings together 150+ experts in research, psychometrics, and assessment design and development to ensure our assessments are rigorous, accessible, and grounded in evidence. In close partnership with teams across College Board, Learning & Assessment leads innovation in assessment design, ensures valid, reliable, and error-free scores, and provides the evidence and insights that guide program strategy and shape understanding of important issues in the education sector. The Research Team designs, conducts, and disseminates research and analyses to drive decision-making within College Board and by external stakeholders. The department includes 30+ interdisciplinary experts from education, economics, political science, psychology, public policy, sociology, and survey research. Our data and evidence address topics related to College Board assessments, programs, and initiatives as well as pressing questions in the broader education ecosystem. We influence a wide array of practitioners, policymakers, and the academic research community through publications spanning academic journal articles, reports, research briefs, and applied data tools. About the Opportunity Research is continuing to evolve, supporting a growing portfolio of analytics and evidence designed to be actionable and influential for decisionmakers across K12, higher ed, and policy at the federal, state, district, and institutional levels. As the scale and complexity of this work increases, there is an opportunity to strengthen the operational backbone that enables consistent delivery, cross-team coherence, and future-focused evolution-while preserving deep expertise and technical leadership. The Director, Research Operations provides function-wide operational leadership to support this evolution. This roleestablishesprioritization mechanisms, builds a coherent cross-team operating model, and establishes and maintains an actionable evidence base that includes both internal and external research evidence. The Director reports to the Vice President, Research and partners closely with Executive Directors, who serve as the technical leaders for research, to ensure work is delivered effectively and sustainably while creating space for forward-looking technical leadership and expertise.The scope of this role is focused on building sustainable operational infrastructure and team capacity, rather than owning research projects. In this role, you will: Coordinate the Research Portfolio (50%) Build and maintain infrastructure to track and manage progress toward goals that gives the Vice President and Executive Directors real-time visibility to help drive decisions and course-corrections to stay on track to achieve outcomes. Refine and maintain the cross-team internal operating infrastructure, including portfolio tracking, cross-team communications, publication management, data/vendor/budget administration, reporting tools, and transparency tools. Reinforce clear accountability, role clarity, timing expectations, andexecutionownership across the research portfolio. Assess risks, tradeoffs, and sequencing across the portfolio and recommend prioritization calls to the Vice President and Executive Directors. Organize workstreams, process and analyze data, synthesize literature, and provide transparency to internal partners, translating information into clear implications and recom endation