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. 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 questi