Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Sr. Program Manager will be a key member of the LinkedIn Talent Solutions (LTS) Global Programs team within the Global Business Organization (GBO), Central Operations. You will partner closely with the VP of LTS EMEA and LATAM and leadership team to define operating priorities, drive organizational efficiencies and rhythm of the business activities, and deliver strategic initiatives to help the business achieve its goals. You will build connective tissue across leaders, teams and programs to create leverage, optimize growth and scale the business.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to act as a partner and advisor to leaders at LinkedIn ranging across operations, sales, finance, marketing and other cross-functional teams. The Program Manager’s leadership on strategic & operational initiatives will help influence the growth trajectory of the LTS EMEA LATAM business.

The role partners with the EMEA LATAM -based global leader (IST time zone) with the expectation you will be able to predominantly work those business hours, with the ability to flex to EMEA/LATAM/NAMER regional hours as needed. Some travel may be required.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day thought partner to the VP of EMEA LATAM Sales
• Steer development and execution of EMEA LATAM strategic priorities
• Drive operational rhythm and effectiveness, including leadership team meetings & offsites, QBRs, OKR management, and annual & quarterly planning process
• Project manage strategic initiatives to support the growth of LTS and LTS EMEA LATAM
• Develop and manage new processes to drive cross-functional focus and prioritization
• Dot connector between what is happening at the macro level (e.g., company, GBO, LTS wide) level and the impact it may have at a micro level (e.g., functional teams)
• Use problem solving skills to logically structure ambiguous problems, conduct data-driven analysis, extrapolate key insights, and deliver recommendations
• Learn quickly, be agile and proactive, as well as assume ownership for broad tracks and global workstreams
• Advocate and influence at all levels of the organization
• Coach and mentor others to ensure the team has frameworks, training, and resources needed to provide best-in-class program management partnership
  
  
  

50%-time allocation:

• Operational rhythm of the business activities (e.g., lead team meetings, offsites)
• Business planning & prioritization (e.g., alignment on priorities, FY investments)
• Portfolio management (e.g., tracking progress, flagging risks, removing blockers)
  
  
  

50%-time allocation:

• Project Management (e.g., LTS strategic initiatives, Team & Talent, Org branding / design)
  
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in technology internet industries, or sales or marketing, or in management consulting
• 5+ years of experience in program management or strategy & operations
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of program management for large, cross-functional, strategic enterprise-wide programs
• Experience using data analysis tools such as Excel, G-sheets
• Strong communication skills, including written and verbal communication, experience with senior level management
• A love for change and an ability to thrive in a complex and fast-moving environment
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to lead cross-functional teams in decision-making processes
• Intellectually curious, strong emotional intelligence, resilient, passionate and doesn’t take themselves too seriously
• Attention to detail, ability to prioritize and manage multiple simultaneous workstreams
• Experience working on or in global Enterprise businesses
• Experience with change management
  
  
  

Suggested Skills

• Stakeholder Management
• Program/Project management
• Excel
  
  
  

Additional Information

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