Sr Director, Product - Platforms

Description

Internet Brands is looking for a Senior Director, Product who can combine a passion for creating innovative products with a user-centered design, business acumen to identify and drive product goals, and the technical capacity to interface with engineers.

The ideal candidate is strategic, data-driven, creative, and business savvy. They have the drive and ability to contribute to the process of discovering what will delight our clients and a proven interest in driving both back-end technical and AI enabled projects with robust API layers, data pipelines, backend workflows, and service-to-service interactions that support AI-driven features.

The Internet Brands Product Team hires courageous, passionate PMs who set big goals and execute on them. We help you grow and challenge you with hard, meaningful work. We celebrate our successes and learn from our failures together. We value and develop strong leadership, asking our PMs to take on ambitious and often ambiguous projects that promise to extend our lead in the industry.

Responsibilities:

• Own the vision, roadmap and execution for various products. This can include working on Platform/ Backend experiences, API experiences, data science models, data engineering pipelines and more.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners in other organizations, while also displaying the ability to "show up senior" in frequent executive forums.
• Interface with stakeholders across Platforms, Business Intelligence, Data Science, and Engineering Teams helping think through trade-offs in workflow implementations, visualizations, model approaches, and user impact.
• Leverage quantitative and qualitative data to drive decision-making, test hypotheses, and execute A/B testing to enhance our products. Define KPIs and metrics to measure the success of your initiatives across business units and infrastructure.
• Analyze market trends, competitor strategies, and user behavior to inform product enhancements that keep Internet Brands competitive.
• Create and maintain product use cases, requirements, and wireframes.
  
  

Qualifications:

• BA/BS required, HCI, Computer Science, or MBA a plus.
• 7 years of product management experience, ideally in backend, platform, ML, or AI product areas.
• Hands-on experience building or delivering products that leverage LLMs, ML models, NLP, or large-scale backend systems.
• Excellent analytical skills and experience using data to inform prioritization.
• Experience conducting competitive research and user research for AI-driven products.
• A sustained track record of making significant, self-directed, and end-to-end contributions to large and impactful software projects.
• You have built complex products that take years of iterations to become great.
• Excellent communication/presentation skills both in large and small groups.
• Ability to solve complex, technical problems with creative solutions while managing tradeoffs.
• Entrepreneur -- you have a strong bias for action and use compelling, data-based arguments to convince others and generate progress with meaningful results.
• Durability and grit - sometimes solutions take creative thinking and multiple iterations while dependencies solidify. You try many different approaches to the right answer.
• Ability to write detailed specifications and vision documents that clearly articulate the ‘why’ behind the problem.
  
  

At Internet Brands, we carefully consider a wide range of factors when determining compensation, including your background and experience. These considerations can cause your compensation to vary. We expect the compensation for this role to have a range that starts at $150,000 and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.

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 services. In 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 company's 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, Fodor's 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 company's powerful, proprietary operating platform provides the flexibility and scalability to fuel the company's continued growth. Internet Brands is a portfolio company of KKR and Warburg Pincus.

Internet Brands and its wholly-owned affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. Internet Brands and its wholly owned affiliates are an equal opportunity employer. Internet Brands will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO).

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