Lead Content Engineer
College Board2 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$80k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and quality of assessment-content interchange between College Board and external or legacy systems.
- Lead content migrations, schema mapping, structural validation, and standards-compliance efforts across vendors and systems.
- Design reusable translation layers and evolve a unified content model for a universal item bank.
- Define, compare, and govern metadata standards for items, forms, courses, and downstream assessment workflows.
- Maintain metadata integrity through authoring, form assembly, assignment, scoring, and reporting.
- Create validation checkpoints, diagnose structural issues, and mitigate risks before production impact.
- Represent College Board in edtech standards groups and influence standards evolution relevant to the platform.
- Act as a strategic liaison across content, engineering, psychometrics, scoring, reporting, and platform teams.
- Communicate complex data structures clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders and lead cross-team alignment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in structured content systems, assessment production, publishing technology, or comparable environments.
- Deep understanding of metadata modeling, content schemas, and data governance, especially in assessment contexts.
- Direct experience with QTI or a comparable edtech content-interchange standard, including import/export translation across differing content models.
- Experience with machine-readable formats such as JSON and XML and with system integrations.
- Demonstrated ability to define standards and drive adoption across complex ecosystems.
- Strong systems thinking, precision in terminology, and specification-writing ability.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
- Ability to travel 2–4 times per year for College Board business.
- Preferred experience in large-scale assessment or high-stakes exam production, item banking, form assembly, scoring, reporting, legacy-tool alignment, edtech standards bodies, automation, validation frameworks, or content-engineering practices.
- Authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Full-time remote role; candidates near College Board offices may choose fully remote or hybrid work with Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the office.
- Occasional business travel is required, with expected travel of 2–4 times per year.
- College Board offers a comprehensive benefits package and a mission-driven nonprofit work environment.
- Compensation is adjusted by location and discussed transparently during the hiring process.
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About College Board
College Board is a nonprofit education organization that builds and administers programs such as the SAT, PSAT/NMSQT, Advanced Placement, CLEP, and BigFuture planning tools for students, schools, and colleges. It generates revenue primarily through exam and program fees and services to educational institutions. Founded in 1900 and headquartered in New York, it works with U.S. secondary schools and higher-ed admissions to deliver assessments and course frameworks.