Software Development Manager

LSAC’s mission is to advance law and justice by promoting access, equity, and fairness in law school admission and supporting the learning journey from prelaw through practice. 

Pay rate: $130,000 to $145,000 per year, depending on experience

This position is part of the agile software development teams which support internal and external customers.

We are seeking an outstanding technical software development manager to innovate and guide initiatives to improve the experience for individuals as well as institutions. You will collaborate with a variety of stakeholders and team members to form product strategies leveraging an MVP approach along with data collection to make decisions. You will do this as part of our cross-functional agile product teams in a manner that continuously improves our products as defined in the product roadmap.

To be successful, you will need an agile mindset. You will also be responsible to perform personnel management functions for your teams of on- and off-shore team developers, full stack developers, including but not limited to tracking goals, identifying training opportunities, and timekeeping.

Essential Job Functions

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The individual employed in this position will be required to:

• 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.
• Follow our competitors in the industry.

Competencies

• Knowledge and experience with Agile principles, ceremonies, and methods – required.
• Active Scrum Alliance CSPO and/or CSM certification – strongly preferred.
• Working knowledge of C#, .NET Core, and React – strongly preferred
• Knowledge of JIRA or Azure DevOps software package - preferred
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Power BI software – preferred
• Working knowledge of SQL and NoSQL (CosmosDB/Mongo) – preferred
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to successfully execute the role of product owner and scrum master using Agile methodologies.
• Outstanding communication, presentation, and leadership skills
• Excellent organizational and time management skills
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
• Creative thinker with a vision
• Attention to detail

Education and Experience

• A. or B.S. degree or commensurate experience
• 5+ years of relevant technical experience; React, C# and back end technologies
• 2+ years’ experience supervising a team
• Agile methodologies preferred
• Experience leading internal and external technical teams

Supervisory Responsibilities

This role has people management responsibilities.

Position Type

The LSAC standard business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. ET. While these are the standard office hours for LSAC, as an exempt employee, the employee will be expected to work the hours necessary to satisfactorily complete their assignments in a responsible and professional manner. This position is required to work weekends during test administrations and as business needs demand.

Work Environment

This is a remote position. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Travel Requirements

There is no travel expected for this position.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee must regularly write, hear, speak, read, communicate effectively, and present materials.

Special Conditions or Requirements

The ability to work weekends is required.

Additional Information:

Please note that this job description may not contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Job responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice.

Except as otherwise provided by law, all terms of employment are subject on an at-will basis and can change at any time.