College Board

College Board

Senior Content Engineer

Remote - USA · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$80k-$140kDetected 5 days ago
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About the role

  • You'll apply systems thinking to content - designing models, taxonomies, and workflows that are structured, scalable, and sustainable.
  • (15%) Contribute to the long-term content architecture strategy for the Authentic Work Platform, applying systems thinking and collaborating across disciplines to align content infrastructure with product and user goals.

Responsibilities

  • (35%) Design and document structured content models and metadata frameworks that support scalable content creation, reuse, and maintainability - enabling delivery of new features while improving author workflows and editorial governance.
  • (30%) Provide technical leadership to engineering partners by guiding how structured content is consumed, rendered, and scaled across new UIs - including coaching team members on content APIs, prototyping solutions, and aligning content with front-end needs.
  • (20%) Lead efforts to integrate content consistently across print and digital workflows, improving how complex content is modeled, tagged, and delivered to ensure a unified user experience.
  • shaping how content flows across platforms to support technical integration and a cohesive, user-centered experience.
  • The Content Engineering team sits within a multidisciplinary technology team that integrates design, content, and engineering to deliver consistent, scalable user experiences.
  • We support structured content models, authoring ecosystems, metadata standards, and content workflows that power College Board's digital products and websites.
  • As a Senior Content Engineer, you'll help define and implement the structured content strategy for the Authentic Work Platform - a complex, evolving digital environment that serves both students and professionals.
  • This role calls for a strategic architect's mindset: shaping how content flows across platforms to support technical integration and a cohesive, user-centered experience.
  • Technical fluency in working with structured content - including reading and debugging delivery APIs, scripting transformations, and analyzing markup or metadata to support modeling decisions
  • A systems thinker who applies architectural approaches to content design for scalability, maintainability, and reuse

Requirements

  • All CB employees are required to occasionally travel to meet in person for business purposes.
  • 4-6 years of experience designing structured content or data models and workflows for digital products
  • Expertise in structured content systems such as XML/DITA, with experience in production-scale, user-facing environments
  • Familiarity with enterprise content management systems (e.g., Drupal, XDocs ), including authoring workflows and metadata structures
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to explain complex content systems clearly using diagrams, documentation, or data

Skills

  • A passion for expanding educational and career opportunities and mission-driven work
  • Clear and concise communication skills, written and verbal
  • Collaborative mindset with strong influencing and negotiation skills across cross-functional teams
  • A self-starter who enjoys untangling complexity, learning new tools, and driving clarity in ambiguous systems

Compensation

  • We're a self-sustaining nonprofit that believes in fair and competitive compensation grounded in your qualifications, experience, impact, and the market.

Benefits

  • You'll have open, transparent conversations about compensation, benefits, and what it's like to work at College Board throughout your hiring process.
  • solving complex problems, making data-informed decisions, prioritizing what matters most, and continuously improving through learning, user input, and external benchmarking.
  • We aim to unify practices, strengthen the discipline, and support content systems that are robust, maintainable, and flexible for the future.
  • Motivation to support educational and career opportunities for students through thoughtful, scalable content design

Company info

  • Our team partners with platform product leadership and serves a broad community of content creators working in DITA, Drupal, HTML-based structured content, and assessment and item-authoring systems.
  • About the Opportunity
  • You'll work across systems like Drupal and XDocs to design content models, metadata, and authoring frameworks that enable reuse, editorial efficiency, and scalable content delivery.
  • As a key member of a cross-functional team, you'll collaborate with engineers, designers, and product teams to connect structured content with user-facing features, support decoupled rendering, and drive consistency across print and digital experiences.
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