Sr. Program Manager, Gbo Programs

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.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options, meaning you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what is best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or this role can be performed remotely in most locations in the country of employment.

The GBO Programs team is the strategic program management arm for the Global Business Organization (GBO).

The Global Program Manager will be responsible for working across LinkedIn’s most critical programs to execute on key decisions and initiatives for the organization. This position offers an exciting opportunity to act as a partner and advisor to global senior leaders at LinkedIn ranging across sales, operations, finance, marketing, and other cross-functional teams. They will be responsible for driving global strategic initiatives to successful conclusions and helping the business achieve its goals.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Identify and appropriately escalate risks which could jeopardize the successful rollout and recommend options for resolution.
• Build, coalesce, and champion cross-functional working teams which include Business Operations, Sales Operations, Support Operations, Sales Management, Marketing, Product, Communications, Human Resources, Training and other teams to meet milestones and program objectives.
• Build project/program management plans and drive execution (managing timelines, tracking and communicating progress, setting expectations with stakeholders, issue resolution).
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with appropriate stakeholders as needed.
• Advocate and influence at all levels of the organization
• Define success metrics of program and measure results.
• Provide a regular cadence of updates to the leadership team on progress and plans to mitigate risk.
• Define the program governance structure (decision makers, performers, stakeholders), workstreams, and key milestones).
• Own end-to-end program lifecycle including formulating a hypothesis using data, developing a recommendation, driving decision making with leadership, building stakeholder engagement models, building program plans, and driving change management and operational readiness.
• Be an effective agent of change by developing a change management framework on what we communicate, how we train teams and support change

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of industry experience in the technology/internet space or management consulting
• 5+ years of experience in program management, including management of cross-functional programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple simultaneous workstreams.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Experience working in high-growth, performance-focused environments with changing priorities.
• Experience with change management and leading organizational transformation
• Experience in influencing indirect teams to achieve common goals.
• A commitment to working as part of a hard-working team, yet knows how to have fun.
• Strong business acumen, organizational, time management skills and attention to detail
• Interest in analyzing data and the ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision-making.

Suggested skills:

• Communications skills
• Business acumen
• Strong time management
• Program management
• Organized

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $107,000 to $175,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference the following information for more information: https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/LinkedIn_EEO_Statement_2020.pdf. Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

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• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you

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Pay Transparency Policy Statement

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Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to [email protected]. This email box is designed to assist disabled job seekers who seek a reasonable accommodation to the application process. Emails sent for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

In your email, please include the following: (1) confirm you have a disability; (2) identify the disability-related limitation that needs to be accommodated, and (3) if known, describe the specific accommodation requested for the disability-related limitation. A response to your request may take up to three business days.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice