Senior Director, AP Assessment Design and Insights (Educational Assessment)

Location: Remote - USA. Candidates near hirify.global offices may choose fully remote or hybrid work with office attendance on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Occasional business travel is required. Authorization to work in the United States is required.

Salary: $104,000–$155,000 annually, adjusted based on location, experience, qualifications, and market data.

Company

hirify.global is a self-sustaining nonprofit education organization that develops and administers Advanced Placement coursework, exams, and related programs for millions of students and thousands of colleges and universities.

What you will do

• Lead AP assessment systems strategy, roadmap execution, digital assessment inventories, and assessment resource architecture.
• Represent assessment requirements and dependencies in discussions with product and technology teams.
• Translate complex assessment systems data into executive reporting, data visualizations, and strategic presentations.
• Develop the assessment design intake framework and maintain the knowledge base covering assessment principles, item design, form development, validity, fairness, and psychometrics.
• Partner with psychometrics and executive leadership on multi-year test form planning and innovative digital assessment practices.
• Lead the divisional AP Assessment Community of Practice, including agenda-setting, speaker engagement, logistics, and resource archiving.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in assessment design, test development, or assessment systems.
• Deep expertise in educational assessment design, validation, delivery at scale, psychometrics, fairness, and large-scale examinations.
• Experience leading strategic initiatives and aligning product, technology, psychometrics, curriculum, and assessment stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including executive-level insights, visualizations, and presentations.
• Fluency in assessment blueprints, test and form constraints, item pools, scoring specifications, and related data structures.
• Knowledge of QTI, APIP, HTML, WCAG, metadata schemas, JSON, Python or SAS, SharePoint, Smartsheet, PowerPoint, Microsoft 365, and collaboration platforms such as Productboard, Jira, and Confluence.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with item data protocols, programming languages, and accessibility frameworks.
• Experience with emerging assessment practices and generative AI tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Mission-driven work focused on expanding educational and career opportunities.
• Supportive, collaborative environment with an emphasis on feedback, learning, trust, and shared success.
• Opportunities to experiment with and adopt AI-driven solutions.
• Data-informed decision-making, continuous improvement, and transparent compensation discussions.
• Remote flexibility, with hybrid work available for employees near hirify.global offices.

Hiring process

• Resume and application review, followed by a recruiter phone or video screen.
• Hiring manager interview, performance exercise, panel interview, leadership conversation, and reference checks.
• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled, with a minimum application window of five business days.