Staff Technical Program Manager

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The Productivity Engineering TPM organization spans technology across LinkedIn's developer products, customer journeys, and related infrastructure. We solve some of the toughest productivity problems faced by engineers and our employees. Every day, we push ourselves to further hone the competitive edge and provide frictionless tools and applications to power the productivity of LinkedIn.

Linkedin is looking for Staff Technical Program Managers for our Productivity Engineering organization. You will be responsible for driving strategic programs and tactical projects that enable our organization to build and scale world class platforms that serve our end users, customers and LinkedIn’s employees. You will partner with engineering teams and a variety of stakeholders across LinkedIn, to lead some of the most complex and impactful initiatives.

Do you enjoy helping users solve complex problems? The successful candidate will be technically strong, have a solid track record of program and project management, will have worked with a large number of stakeholders, and will have demonstrated excellent planning, execution and delivery.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

This role will be based in Mountain View (CA) or New York.


Responsibilities:
• Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives for data related programs and projects
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives
• Drive new organization-wide programs to ensure data and reporting across the GTM space
• Own and manage program and portfolio planning, execution of roadmap, and engineering operations for multiple verticals
• Drive alignments and prioritization across all technology initiatives, manage roadmap for a single consistent view and lead communications
• Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success
• Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs
• Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver
• Report on project status or portfolio roadmap, risks, issues and mitigation plans
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning
• Coach and mentor others in the best practices of modern planning and execution

Basic Qualifications:
• B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years professional experience in an engineering or technical team, managing technical programs/projects

Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience managing company wide, large scale, high impact programs
• Proven success on establishing organization-wide processes and communication framework for R&D initiatives
• Direct work experience in a technical project management capacity to drive large technical initiatives including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Knowledge of complex data and AI architecture and adequate technical depth
• Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
• Direct experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams and individual contributors
• Ability to quickly adapt to faster pace, shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• 2+ years of hands-on data or CRM experience


Suggested Skills:
• Cross Functional Collaboration
• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management


You will Benefit from our Culture:
We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. 


LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $134,000 to $221,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.


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