Sr. Manager, Curriculum Development

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. 

This role can be based in our New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, or Mountain View Office.

Are you ready to lead the learning “nerve center” of LinkedIn’s marketer education strategy? As Sr. Manager, Curriculum Development (MR4), you will lead a team of curriculum managers and program managers to translate business needs into world-class educational programs across live, online, and blended formats.

You will set the standard for excellence by ensuring our programs power LinkedIn’s prestige credentialing strategy, establishing us as the industry benchmark for professional education. From embedding AI into every stage of learning design to evolving our next generation of certifications and badges, you’ll shape not just what we teach, but how education is experienced by marketers worldwide.

This is a leadership role for a builder, innovator, and industry leader who can inspire teams, manage budgets, recruit top vendors, and create a diverse, inclusive, and creative environment where bold ideas thrive.

The Marketer Education team is redefining what professional marketing education looks like: prestigious, career-accelerating, and globally scaled. As Sr. Manager, Curriculum Development, you’ll lead the team that powers it all—shaping the next generation of credentials, building AI-powered learning innovation, and creating education that drives opportunity for our learners and growth for LinkedIn. This is your chance to set the bar for the entire industry and help us build the most respected professional credential in marketing education worldwide.

Team Leadership & Vision

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of curriculum managers and program managers (online, new products, live/vendor, and project management).
• Foster a culture of creativity, accountability, and belonging that fuels innovation and excellence.
• Develop and manage vendor relationships and budgets, ensuring top-tier learning partners.

Curriculum Strategy & Execution

• Translate business partner needs into rigorous, engaging, and scalable curricula across live, online, and blended modalities.
• Shape the overall curriculum architecture to ensure global consistency while allowing regional/local adaptation.
• Drive the evolution of our credential and badging strategy, ensuring LinkedIn Marketing Labs is recognized as the gold standard in professional certification.

AI & Learning Innovation

• Champion the integration of AI and emerging technologies across the learning lifecycle—from content creation to personalization to measurement.
• Develop new learning tools and technologies that elevate learner confidence, accelerate skill-building, and scale globally.
• Establish best practices and innovations that can be adopted across LinkedIn’s learning ecosystem.

Measurement & Business Impact

• Ensure learning programs are measurable, impactful, and directly tied to business outcomes.
• Partner with the Learning Data & Measurement Specialist to analyze program reach, engagement, and results, optimizing for maximum value.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with the Learning Business Partner Manager to ensure alignment with sales, agency, and product priorities.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Agency Marketing, and Sales Enablement to embed education into go-to-market strategy.
• Serve as a thought leader within LinkedIn, showcasing how education drives revenue, customer adoption, and brand prestige.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in curriculum development, instructional design, or learning product leadership
• 3+ year managing teams of curriculum managers or equivalent
• 5+ years leading global learning programs across multiple modalities<