Staff Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure

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

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA.

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. 

LinkedIn is looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to work within LinkedIn's Infrastructure Technical Program Management team. The right candidate will have demonstrated solid leadership in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. This candidate is expected to perform using best practices for execution of our SRE/Infra projects as well as initiating, planning, and executing intermediate-to-large scale, cross functional, and company-wide critical programs.

The Online Infrastructure team is charged with building the next-generation infrastructure and platforms for LinkedIn, including but not limited to: an application and service delivery platform, compute platform, massively scalable data storage and replication systems, cutting-edge search platform, best-in-class AI platform, experimentation platform, privacy and compliance platform etc. You will work and learn among the best, putting to use your passion for distributed technologies and algorithms, API design and systems-design, and your passion for writing code that performs at an extreme scale. LinkedIn has already pioneered well-known open-source infrastructure projects like Apache Kafka, Pinot, Azkaban, Samza, Venice, Datahub, Feather, etc. We also work with industry standard open source infrastructure products like Kubernetes, GRPC and GraphQL - come join our infrastructure teams and share the knowledge with a broader community while making a real impact within our company.

As a Staff TPM partnering with the Online Infrastructure team, you will be responsible for driving the cross-functional programs developing these cutting-edge software delivery products & platforms in addition to shaping the strategy and vision of the TPM organization as LinkedIn’s business and technology landscapes evolve and shift. You will work closely with engineers and partners from all parts of the company, from product to infrastructure and more.

Responsibilities:

• Provide clarity on product program objectives, ensuring that roles and responsibilities are well understood and address any conflict in a timely manner with minimal direction and assistance from management.

• Interact with executive sponsors and change agents to identify scope, requirements, and manage projects throughout the entirety of the project lifecycle.

• Facilitate and drive large cross-functional projects, serve the needs of multiple stakeholders within a complex multi-faceted organization, and manage that strategy through to completion.

• Apply formal change management practices that ensure that product programs are baselined at kickoff and all changes are thoroughly reviewed for justification impact to the program and have received appropriate approvals.

• Anticipate product program risks and issues and work to provide resolutions which ensure that stakeholder expectations are set appropriately.

• Effectively communicate information to diverse audiences including translating subject matter terminology into clear business terms and program relevance.

• Facilitate straightforward decisions from complex situations that keep teams and projects moving forward.

• Establish and manage end-to-end processes with various stakeholders in collecting, evaluating and fulfilling their requirements.

• Demonstrate data analysis expertise to develop and communicate meaningful insights, define metrics, and make recommendations on key infrastructure scaling initiatives.

• Deliver solution design specifications and technical requirements for the development and improvement of capacity planning tools and automation.

• Apply business acumen to formulate practical and effective program management approaches to identify optimization opportunities, influence business partners, and drive effective decision making.

• Conduct “what-if” simulation