Senior Technical Project Manager
Job Summary
Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to join our Product Development Organization, focusing on driving cross-functional alignment, improving process efficiencies, and delivering strategic initiatives within the Legal Technology sector. The role involves working with prominent brands like Avvo, FindLaw, Superlawyers, and Martindale-Hubbell. The ideal candidate will be a self-starter adept at analyzing business data and technical trade-offs, capable of navigating ambiguity to define clear project direction. Responsibilities include leading end-to-end program planning and execution, collaborating with product and engineering teams on strategic planning, developing program plans, tracking progress, managing dependencies, mitigating risks, and ensuring clear communication. The role also involves translating business requirements into technical specifications, defining technical architecture, documenting project plans, tracking metrics, and driving consistent project management practices. The candidate will proactively identify and remove impediments, support teams in balancing priorities, and ensure transparent communication of project risks, progress, and launch outcomes. Exploring new ways to incorporate AI for efficiency and scale is also a key aspect.
Must have:
- 5+ years technical project management with software engineering teams
- 5+ years at a technology company (SaaS preferred)
- 3+ years leading software development projects
- Experience with iterative or agile methodologies
- Successful program delivery and cross-functional initiative handling
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, Airtable, ADO
- BS/BA degree (Computer Science or technical discipline preferred)
Good to have:
- Scrum Master, Scaled Agilist, or PMP Certification
- Cross-functional collaboration with product, design, engineering, marketing, support, operations
- Owning program strategy and end-to-end delivery
- Communicating results to senior leadership
- Dealing with ambiguity in a growing environment
- Leading without authority to coordinate teams
- Experience in scaled software development organizations
Perks:
- Health insurance options (medical, dental, vision)
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Life and AD&D insurance
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Paid holidays
- Commuter benefits
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Well-being coaching services
- Voluntary benefits (home, auto, pet insurance)
- Discounted legal and financial services
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Job Details
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We are looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to join our Product Development Organization. We drive cross-functional alignment, create process efficiencies and deliver large-scale strategic initiatives in a rapidly growing Legal Technology space. You will have an opportunity to work with many prominent and familiar brands in the Legal Marketing space: Avvo, FindLaw, Superlawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, Lawyers.com.
The ideal candidate will join a team of technical project and program managers who focus on driving business-critical initiatives across the product development organization. You will be a strong self-starter and therefore able to drill into business data and technical trade-offs to identify clear direction and focus for your tasks, projects and programs. You know how to continue to move forward in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.
You will have experience working with multiple partners across an organization and are skilled at building and maintaining relationships. You’ll demonstrate a successful track record leading medium to large projects using agile methodologies. You’ll be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are excited about exploring new ways to incorporate AI in the teams and personal workflows to drive efficiency and scale.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
- Drive end-to-end program planning and execution across multi-disciplinary teams
- Support strategic cross-functional planning, leading discovery and prioritization by closely collaborating with product and engineering leads to develop program plans
- Partner with product and engineering to develop project milestones, track progress, handle cross-team dependencies, resource planning, mitigate risks and run effective communications
- Proactively identify and remove impediments to drive momentum and progress. Identify communication gaps, lead issue resolution and provide support to teams balancing competing priorities
- Work closely with stakeholders and product managers to ensure that requirements are translated to the technology requirements that subsequently drive the execution of software development from design through successful deployment and adoption.
- Collaborate to define the technical architecture of solutions for services and support technical implementation and integration efforts.
- Document project plans for cross-team initiatives and drive on-schedule delivery of results
- Contribute to the definition, development and tracking of product and team metrics and operational improvements
- Drive consistent, high-quality project management practices by creating and maintaining a repository of templates and best practices
- Communicate project risks, progress, launches and retrospectives across all stakeholders and teams – consistently and transparently
Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in technical project management working directly with software engineering teams
- 5+ years of experience working at a technology company, preferably within a SaaS model
- 3+ years of experience leading software development projects with schedules and deadlines
- Direct experience using iterative or agile methodologies
- Proven track record of successful program delivery and handling complex initiatives across a variety of cross-functional teams
- Must have experience using project planning, road mapping and issue tracking tools - JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet, Airtable, ADO
- BS/BA degree required, preferably in computer science or technical disciplines
Preferred Qualifications:
- Scrum Master, Scaled Agilist or PMP Certification
- Experience working cross-functionally with product management, design, engineering, marketing, customer support and operations
- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
- Skilled at dealing with ambiguity in a rapidly growing and changing environment
- Ability to lead without authority to coordinate cross-functional teams towards value delivery
- Experience in a company that has scale or previous work in a large software development organizations
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.
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 starting range of $114k and will depend on your skills, qualifications, and experience. We encourage all interested candidates to apply.
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 will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO).
Notice to California residents: you can find information about our privacy practices, on: https://www.internetbrands.com/work-with-us/cpra
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).
Notice to California residents: you can find information about our privacy practices, on: https://www.internetbrands.com/work-with-us/cpra
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