Senior Technical Project Manager Job ID 2026-1277
El Segundo, CA - USA
Job Summary
Description
- Own end-to-end program planning and execution for backend platform initiatives including distributed system feature development platform consolidation and multi-system integration workstreams. You define the plan identify the risks and are accountable for the outcome.
- Lead discovery and prioritization with product and engineering to translate business goals into executable program plans. Drive alignment on scope sequencing and trade-offs including when to defer when to parallelize and when to push back.
- Develop and maintain project milestones manage cross-team dependencies lead resource conversations and run communications that give stakeholders the right information at the right level of detail from engineering standups to leadership reviews.
- Proactively surface and remove impediments before they become blockers. Identify gaps in ownership lead issue resolution across teams and keep multiple parallel workstreams moving without losing thread on any of them.
- Engage substantively in technical design review system architecture proposals data flow diagrams and API integration specs. Ensure that requirements are fully translated into technical decisions and that those decisions are traceable through to deployment.
- Coordinate integration and onboarding work with external partners and downstream systems including CRM integrations and client-facing delivery pipelines. Serve as the TPM point of contact for technical onboarding activities ensuring smooth handoffs and clear acceptance criteria.
- Define track and report on project and system health metrics including delivery velocity integration success rates and platform reliability. Build dashboards and reporting practices that make the teams work visible to the business.
- Maintain engagement during production incidents relevant to your programs understand system behavior under failure contribute to postmortems and own the follow-through on remediation workstreams.
- Communicate risks progress launches and retrospectives consistently and transparently across all stakeholders calibrating technical depth to your audience without losing accuracy.
- 5 years of technical project management experience working directly and daily with software engineering teams not adjacent to them.
- 5 years at a technology company preferably one where backend services data pipelines or API-driven platforms are central to the product.
- 3 years leading backend software development projects end-to-end with demonstrable examples of managing scope schedule dependencies and risk across multi-team programs.
- Proven ability to engage technically: you can read a system diagram follow an API spec participate meaningfully in architecture reviews and identify issues in a proposed technical design.
- Proven track record delivering complex cross-functional programs especially those involving platform migrations system integrations or consolidation of distributed services.
- Familiarity with lead management or marketplace-style platform concepts intake validation routing logic quality filtering or multi-channel delivery is a strong plus but not required.
- Experience with CRM systems in an integration context: you understand how data flows between platforms what makes integrations brittle and how to manage technical onboarding with downstream partners.
- BS/BA required preferably in computer science engineering or a related technical discipline.
- Scrum Master Scaled Agilist or PMP certification.
- Experience working in organizations where engineering product data/analytics revenue operations and business operations all have a stake in the same platform and where getting alignment requires more than a well-run standup.
- Demonstrated experience owning program strategy end-to-end and communicating results including trade-offs delays and failures to senior leadership without filtering or spin.
- Comfort engaging with monitoring observability and alerting tooling as a TPM not to own it but to use it to stay informed about system health and proactively flag risks.
- Experience managing technical onboarding or implementation programs with external clients or partners including coordinating acceptance testing and integration validation.
- Prior experience in a large-scale software development organization where platform-level decisions have broad downstream consequences.
In addition to our awesome culture we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our benefits include health insurance options such as medical dental and vision coverage flexible spending accounts (FSA) for medical and dependent care short-term and long-term disability insurance and life and AD&D insurance. We also provide a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match paid time off (PTO) paid holidays commuter benefits as well as access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and well-being coaching addition employees can take advantage of voluntary benefits such as home auto and pet insurance and discounted legal and financial services. For more details feel free to inquire during the interview process.
Internet Brands headquartered in El Segundo Calif is a fully integrated online media and software services company focused on four high-value vertical categories: Health Automotive Legal and Home/Travel. The companys properties and platforms include the WebMD Medscape and Henry Schein ONE networks which are the global leaders in their markets; Nolo Avvo and Martindale which form the largest consumer information provider in the legal market; and CarsDirect Fodors Travel and many others which are leaders in their key vertical markets. Internet Brands award-winning consumer websites lead their categories and serve more than 250 million monthly visitors while a full range of web presence offerings has established deep long-term relationships with SMB and enterprise clients. The companys powerful proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the companys continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Warburg Pincus.
Internet Brands is an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO).
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Internet Brands is an online media and technology company that serves businesses and consumers in four major categories: Automotive, Health, Legal, and Home/Travel. Our fully integrated approach combines leading web solutions for businesses with media websites for consumers. IB's a ... View more