Senior Director, Product - Platforms
Company: Internet Brands
Location: El Segundo
Posted on: January 16, 2026
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Job 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.
Keywords: Internet Brands, Lancaster , Senior Director, Product - Platforms, IT / Software / Systems , El Segundo, California
