Law School Admission Council (LSAC)

Engineering Manager

• Provide vision and direction to the product development team and stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle.
• Work closely with internal technical teams and 3rd party vendors to devise innovative solutions to complex problems at massive scale.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the organization to make sure that you gather appropriate data to form short- and long-term goals as well as effectively communicating those goals.
• Assess value, develop cases, create, and prioritize stories, features, and epics to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy.
• Provide servant leadership by facilitating solutions, removing roadblocks, proposing architecture, implementing and testing deliverables as needed.
• Provide people management functions such as tracking goals, identifying training opportunities, performance coaching, work assignment and timekeeping.
• Coordinate efforts starting with initiative launch to product delivery.
• Responsible for defining MVP scope and communicating thought decisions to stakeholders based on value to the user, fit with the vision, ROI, etc.
• Works with initiative owners to identify key stakeholders.
• Frequently align team objectives with other product area and cross-functional teams.
• Ensure the team has a robust prioritized backlog defined prior to team iteration.
• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Understand the balance of technical debt with product feature development.
• Research and analyze market, the users, and the roadmap for the product.
• Mentor stakeholders and team members in Agile methodology, C# and/or React and MVP solution development approaches.
• Empower leads to coach team on technical skills.

Software Development Manager

Research Analyst

• Collaborate with other internal stakeholders to ensure clear and easily accessible summaries of research and data, including useable and understandable data visualization.
• Document and communicate research findings through published essays, reports, and presentations to stakeholders in legal education and the legal profession, including regulators, educators, law schools, prelaw advisors, pathway programs, and others.
• Compile the annual report of LSAC’s research and data insights.
• Conduct data analysis, both quantitative and qualitative.
• Create datasets, pulling data from various sources.
• Use an equity-minded framework and approach to write applied policy and research reports based on research and data produced by LSAC’s Research team.
• Readily identify potential for bias and actively work to minimize inequities in research and applied settings, including research projects, tools, products, and services.
• Contribute to the Research team strategic plan, goals, and research agenda.
• Follow LSAC procedures, processes, and protocols to conduct rigorous research
• Support and collaborate closely with the senior director of research and the Research team.
• Monitor current events, political and economic developments, and social trends that may have an impact on legal and higher education policies.
• Keep up to date on the latest research and literature in education, pipeline/pathway programs, admissions, legal education, student learning outcomes, student development, measurement tools, assessments, the legal profession, equity, advance quantitative methodology, and other relevant fields.

Software Development Manager

Education Policy and Applied Research Analyst