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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.

This role can be based in San Francisco, Mountain View, or Chicago.

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._

As part of the Talent Strategic Initiatives team, the Principal Program Manager (IC5) will own the operations of our company-wide effort to update our talent architecture, activate our point of view on how AI and automation will impact roles and work, and enable LinkedIn to deepen its effectiveness as a skills-based organization. The Principal Program Manager will report to the Senior Manager of Talent Architecture and will partner with many senior leaders and stakeholders across LinkedIn. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate our momentum, ensure our systems run efficiently within a very complex endeavor, and drive our skills-based org strategy, impacting the career experience of every LinkedIn employee.

Responsibilities:

+ Build a comprehensive program plan and strategic roadmap to support Talent Architecture, identify dependencies, resources required, and levels of risks between and across all relevant projects.

+ Ensure program deliverables are achieved, drive performance of our LinkedIn team and vendor partners, and conduct after action reviews with supporting project teams to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Improve and evolve the program to build repeatable, scalable processes that result in higher quality, more predictable outcomes.

+ Dig deeply into problems and data, conducting root cause analysis, analyzing operational and workforce data, and creating reports that help us understand program health. Generate data-based program insights and guide program owner and sponsors to make good decisions related to the program.

+ Build strategic relationships to drive long term success and work with project sponsors and functional leaders within GTO, including Compensation, HRBP, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Talent Services, Operations, and Programs (TSOP) and others. Extend our influence by building strategic relationships with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Finance, etc.

+ Enable the Talent Architecture team to deliver quality, predictable outcomes that serve business needs. Evaluate our current systems, processes, and structure to create a more scalable, streamlined set of processes, reporting mechanisms, and communication plans. Interpret and filter information into actionable formats for program, project, or team consumption.

+ Lead decision-making, alignment, resource asks, and big-impact areas like the impact of AI and automation on future workforce needs, bringing our executive sponsors where needed.

+ Facilitate strategic planning and budget planning, track program outcomes and reporting (e.g., OKRs, quarterly ops reviews), manage our vendor, and hold accountability for meeting our budget targets.

+ Enact a governance approach (e.g., refresh schedule, skill change signals, skills councils) to keep our talent systems and talent architecture working effectively.

+ Identify, apply and role model best practices and flawless program management. Gather and document process for complex project and program requirements. Manage action items, prepare and send agendas in advance of meetings, and provide follow up email summaries and next steps.

+ Mobilize project/program teams and clearly articulate the plan along with roles and responsibilities for each project team member and stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

+ Minimum 10 years' experience within HR/Talent Project/Program Management and/or Management Consulting

+ OR Bachelor’s degree in psychology, business, or related field AND minimum 7 years’ experience in HR/Talent, Project/Program Management, and/or Management Consulting

Preferred Qualifications:

+ Master’s or Doctoral degree in Industrial-Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior, Management, or related field

+ 5+ years’ experience in an Internal Talent or HR Function

+ 5+ years’ experience collaborating with senior leaders in the business, talent, and/or HR functions

+ 3+ years’ experience creating, analyzing, and reporting on large operational data sets

+ 3+ years’ experience in management consulting

+ 3+ years’ experience leading end-to-end functional or enterprise-wide-implementation project

+ 2+ years’ experience program managing enterprise-wide job architecture initiatives

Suggested Skills:

+ Program Management

+ Analytical Problem Solving

+ Data Analysis

+ Business Acumen

+ Change Management

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $134,000 to $218,000. 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 .

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are 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.

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+ Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you

+ Having interviews in an accessible location

+ Being accompanied by a service dog

+ Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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