Software Development Manager

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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.

We seeking an outstanding technical software development manager to innovate and guide initiatives to improve the experience for individuals and 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 for performing personnel management functions for your teams of on‑shore and off‑shore developers, full stack developers, including but not limited to tracking goals, identifying training opportunities, and timekeeping.

• 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 gather appropriate data to form short‑ and long‑term goals and effectively communicate 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 from initiative launch to product delivery.
• Define MVP scope and communicate thoughtful decisions to stakeholders based on value to the user, fit with the vision, ROI, etc.
• Work with initiative owners to identify key stakeholders.
• Frequently align team objectives with other product areas and cross‑functional teams.
• Ensure the team has a robust prioritized backlog defined prior to team iteration.
• Actively mitigate impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Understand the balance of technical debt with product feature development.
• Research and analyze market, users, and 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 teams on technical skills.
• Follow industry competitors.

• 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 Dev Ops – preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Power BI – preferred.
• SQL and No
  
  SQL (Cosmos
  
  DB/Mongo) – preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to 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:
  
  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.

This role has people management responsibilities.

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…