Technical Project Manager (TPM) – Staff Management Platform (SMP)

Working Hours: Full overlap with Pacific Time Zone

Location: Central and South America

Our client (Internet Brands) is headquartered in El Segundo, California, and 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.

About the Role:
We are seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager (TPM) to lead our Staff Management Platform (SMP) team. The SMP tool is central to Internet Brands’ internal operations, empowering teams across the enterprise to manage, track, and model Internet Brands' organizational structure, staff members, and personnel career growth paths.
As TPM, you will directly manage the Agile development process in a two-week sprint cadence while capturing and prioritizing stakeholder requirements. You’ll ensure the team ships high-quality solutions that enable strategic decision-making and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Own and manage the Agile development workflow, facilitating all ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to gather requirements, document new feature requests, and clearly communicate priorities to the development team.
• Act as a primary liaison between the SMP team and business units, ensuring timely delivery of project milestones.
• Foster a collaborative culture of transparency, agile learning, and incremental improvement.
• Contribute to and help refine the team’s Agile practices and workflows.
• Track, report, and present project progress to management, proactively identifying and mitigating risks.
• Drive resolution of blockers across functions (Tech, HR, Corporate Operations, etc.)
• Maintain and update project documentation, workflows, and team knowledge resources.
• Lead storyboarding and wire-framing for new features or feature enhancements, collaborating closely with design and product stakeholders.
• Manage HR process cycles in conjunction with multiple HR teams across the organization, ensuring platform support for evolving business needs.
• Understand, track, and communicate compliance and privacy requirements, and coordinate with the CISO and other security stakeholders to ensure the platform adheres to the latest standards and policies.

Requirements:

• A substantial track record of technical project management, preferably in SaaS or internal platform environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in running Agile ceremonies and two-week sprints (Scrum Master experience is a plus).
• Proven ability to elicit, document, and prioritize business and technical requirements.
• Strong background in storyboarding and wire-framing, with an eye for user experience and detail.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to work effectively across technical and non-technical roles.
• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills; able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with project management tools (Jira, YouTrack, Confluence, xWiki, etc.).
• Overlap with IB HQ (Los Angeles, California; GMT -7/-8) working hours (9 AM - 6 PM) at least three hours per day.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with engineering teams focused on HR/staffing, analytics, or internal business platforms.
• Awareness of compliance and privacy best practices; ability to communicate effectively with security teams.
• Scrum Master certification or comparable Agile credentials.
• Technical background (Software Engineering, QA, or Systems Analysis).