Product Manager

Overview LSAC's mission is to advance law and justice by promoting access, equity, and fairness in law school admission, to broaden the pathway into legal education, and to support law schools, law students, and the legal education community. Pay rate: $105,000 to $118,000, depending on experience - This is a remote position. The Prelaw Engagement team supports individuals interested in a career in law — and those who support them — through exploration, applying, and deciding to attend law school. We are seeking a Product Manager to own the LSAC Advising Portal, a platform that helps prelaw advisors understand and use critical information about their advisees' law school journeys, and to serve as a visible, trusted presence within the prelaw advising community. This is a role for someone who knows the audience. Strong candidates will come from prelaw advising, LSAT prep, or law school admission and bring deep, firsthand understanding of how advisors work, what prospective law students need, and how technology can improve engagement and decision making for advisors and prospective law students alike. Product management experience is not required. LSAC will provide formal product training and ongoing mentorship through its Product Center of Excellence. The Product Manager works alongside a business owner (the Senior Director of Prelaw Engagement) and a software development manager who leads the engineering team. The role does not require technical skills, but it does require curiosity about how software gets built and the discipline to translate user insight into clear, prioritized product decisions. The community engagement responsibilities of this role will directly inform what the Advising Portal becomes. As the Product Manager gains proficiency, the product scope is expected to grow to include additional prelaw-facing tools, including LSAC's law school research tools such as Law School Transparency. Responsibilities 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: Product Management :: LSAC Advising Portal Owns the Advising Portal product backlog: creates, prioritizes, and maintains an actionable list of features, improvements, and fixes aligned with product strategy. Seeks advisor input through direct relationships, structured feedback channels, and community engagement, and translates those needs into product requirements. Defines acceptance criteria for new features and ensures they are clearly understood by the development team. Works closely with the software development team throughout the product lifecycle, providing clarification and making scope decisions as questions arise. Directs user acceptance testing (UAT), coordinating with Prelaw Engagement staff who support testing, bug tracking, and customer feedback. Participates in sprint reviews and agile ceremonies with the development team. Monitors product usage and advisor feedback to measure performance, identify problems, and inform future product decisions. Researches tools, market trends, and adjacent products serving advisors and prospective law students to inform the product roadmap. Creates and delivers product updates and status reports to users and internal stakeholders. Community Engagement :: Prelaw Advising Community Builds and maintains relationships with prelaw advisors across institution types. Coordinates with the Director of Prelaw Advising on community engagement strategy, communications, and programming, executing relationship work within that framework. Represents LSAC at advisor-facing and prelaw-facing events, including professional development webinars, conferences, and the Resource Center at LSAC Law School Forums. Supports onboarding of new advisors into the Advising Portal and serves as an escalation point for advisor questions about the product. Contributes subject-matter expertise to Prelaw Engagement initiatives, presentations, and content serving advisors and prospective law students. Competencies Holds a strong sense of accountability for both individual and team objectives. Embraces a forward-thinking mindset, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and creativity. Excellent time management, prioritization, attention to detail and organization skills Deep knowledge of prelaw advising, law school admission, or both, gained through direct professional experience with the communities this role serves. Demonstrated systems thinking: has built programs, workflows, or reusable resources that serve many people, rather than working only case by case. Evidence orientation: tracks outcomes, gathers data, and distinguishes between what one person requested and what the community needs. Track record of completing bounded projects, e.g., programs launched, guides published, event series delivered. Ability to translate between constituencies that do not share vocabulary, such as advisors, admission professionals, students, and technical teams. Outstanding communication and presentation skills, including comfort presenting to professional and student audiences. Strong writing and editing skills, whether drafting from scratch or refining a starting point. This includes the editorial judgment to recognize when a draft's organization or framing is the underlying problem rather than defaulting to sentence-level edits. Ability to prioritize and to decline or defer requests, with clear reasoning, when they do not serve the product strategy. Openness to feedback and willingness to revise decisions based on evidence. Curiosity about how software products are designed and built (no technical skills required). Commitment to completing LSAC-provided product training within three months, with ongoing mentorship from LSAC's Product Center of Excellence. Qualifications Education and Experience Bachelor's degree required, law degree preferred. Three or more years of professional experience in prelaw advising, law school admission, or a closely related role serving prospective law students. Experience gathering and acting on feedback from a professional community. Supervisory Responsibilities This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities. The Product Manager directs the work of Prelaw Engagement staff on Advising Portal matters, including user acceptance testing, bug tracking, and customer feedback. Position Type 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. Work Environment This job operates in a remote and professional office environment. Whether remote or in-office, this role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Travel Requirements Occasional travel is expected for this position, including advisor-facing conferences, LSAC Law School Forums, and LSAC staff events. 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 regularlywrite, read, and communicate effectively, stand; walk, use hands and fingers, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. 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. At LSAC we foster a culture based on our stated values and actively seek to broaden our pipeline of current and future leaders. We are committed to attracting, retaining, and developing individuals who have a passion for the work they do and the mission of LSAC. We encourage all qualifiedindividuals to apply. We recognize that experience comes from a variety of places and know that job applicants will possess many, but not necessarily all, of the qualities listed in the job description. While no one candidate will embody every single quality, the successful candidate will exemplify a robust combination of the skills and competencies listed to excel in the position. LSAC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications from individuals from all identities and backgrounds. #J-18808-Ljbffr careers-lsac