Sr. Program Manager, GTM Enablement

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 is located in San Francisco, CA, Sunnyvale, CA, New York, NY, or Chicago.

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.

The Sr. Program Manager will be a key member of the Global Programs team within the Global Business Organization (GBO). They will be mapped to GTM Enablement, acting in a chief of staff capacity to the VP of GTM Enablement and serving as a member of the leadership team to make the business more productive and successful. They will define operating priorities, drive organizational efficiencies and rhythm of the business activities, and deliver strategic initiatives to help the business achieve its goals. They will build connective tissue across leaders, teams and programs to create leverage, optimize growth and scale the business.

This position offers an exciting opportunity to act as a partner and advisor to executive leaders at LinkedIn ranging across operations, sales, finance, marketing and other cross-functional teams. The Program Manager’s leadership on strategic & operational initiatives will help influence the growth trajectory of the GTM Enablement business.

The role partners with a NAMER-based global leader (CST time zone) with the expectation you will be able to predominantly work those business hours, with the ability to flex to APAC/EMEA/LATAM regional hours as needed. Some travel may be required.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day thought partner for VP of GTM Enablement & serve as member of the GTM Enablement leadership team 
• Steer development and execution of GTM Enablement strategic priorities
• Drive operational rhythm and effectiveness, including leadership team meetings & offsites, QBRs, OKR management, and annual & quarterly planning process
• Project manage strategic initiatives to support the growth of GTM Enablement and GBO
• Develop and manage new processes to drive cross-functional focus and prioritization
• Dot connector between what is happening at the macro level (e.g., company, GBO, GTM Ops wide) level and the impact it may have at a micro level (e.g., GTM Enablement, functional teams)
• Use problem solving skills to logically structure ambiguous problems, conduct data-driven analysis, extrapolate key insights, and deliver recommendations 
• Learn quickly, be agile and proactive, as well as assume ownership for broad tracks and global workstreams 
• Advocate and influence at all levels of the organization
• Coach and mentor others to ensure the team has frameworks, training, and resources needed to provide best-in-class program management partnership 

50%-time allocation: 

• Operational rhythm of the business activities (e.g., lead team meetings, offsites) 
• Business planning & prioritization (e.g., alignment on priorities, FY investments) 
• Portfolio management (e.g., tracking progress, flagging risks, removing blockers) 

50%-time allocation: 

• Project Management (e.g., GTM Enablement strategic initiatives, Team & Talent, Org branding / design)
• Represent VP or GTM Enablement in some cross-company projects

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in technology internet industries or in management consulting
• 5+ years of experience in program management or strategy & operations

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven track record of program management for large, cross-functional, strategic enterprise-wide programs 
• Experience using data analysis tools such as Excel, G-sheets
• Strong communication skills, including written and verbal communication, experience with senior level management 
• A love for change and an ability to thrive in a complex and fast-moving environment 
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to lead cross-functional teams in decision-making processes 
• Intellectually curious, strong emotional intelligence, resilient, passionate and doesn’t take themselves too seriously 
• Attention to detail