Sr. People Analytics Analyst

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 Sunnyvale or San Francisco.  

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. 

This role will be part of the People Analytics team within Global Talent Organization at LinkedIn. Our team’s mission is to enable better, faster talent decisions—we turn people data into actionable insights that drive business impact. We are searching for a Sr. People Analytics Analyst to join our Talent Strategy team. This role will primarily focus on the foundational elements needed to effectively measure, report, monitor, and communicate performance and progress towards achieving talent outcomes at LinkedIn. It will also include supporting efforts to scale reporting solutions for key performance indicators (KPI) and outcome metrics and driving and/or supporting strategic analyses across the talent ecosystem. The ideal candidate will have strengths in technical analysis, including the use of SQL, driving action and partnership across cross-functional teams utilizing logic, structure, and effective project management, and navigating ambiguity to manage through competing priorities.  

Responsibilities:   

• Partner with teammates and Global Talent Organization stakeholders to refine the definition and measurement of metrics that measure key performance indicators (KPIs) and outcomes across the talent organization 
• Maintain the framework used to manage our holistic metrics ecosystem and create training and enablement content to drive consistency in metrics use 
• Partner with the People Analytics Data team to acquire new data sets, as needed, to measure KPIs and outcomes 
• Create and regularly update interim reporting solutions (i.e., Excel reports), as needed, for KPIs and outcome metrics 
• Provide the conceptual requirements to create scalable reporting solutions for KPIs and outcome metrics, drive user acceptance testing for solutions, and support the roll-out and adoption of solutions. Note: The build and go-to-market activities for scalable reporting solutions will be owned by the People Analytics Data team  
• Monitor KPI and outcome metrics across the talent ecosystem, alongside teammates, to evaluate trends and identify hot spots and areas of focus for actioning 
• Partner with teammates to execute planned and unplanned analyses to dive deeper into the root cause of specific trends and issues—provide input on analyses plans, complete analyses, and prepare insights and/or reports with recommendations for stakeholders to influence data-driven decisions and actions 
• Create standard templates to communicate data, insights, and recommended actions from monitoring KPI and outcome metrics for LinkedIn overall, Global Talent Organization Centers of Excellence (e.g., Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion, etc.), and business functions (e.g., Sales, Engineering, etc.) 
• Navigate working cross-collaboratively with multiple stakeholder groups simultaneously 
• Respond quickly to business needs, balancing agility to address new and evolving issues and focus to not lose sight of previously prioritized work—ensure you are working on the right thing at the right time 
• Proactively call out issues (roadblocks) and opportunities that may impact projects at hand 
• Serve as a thought partner to teammates on projects—analysis scoping, model reviews (Excel), code reviews (SQL), recommendation formulation, etc. 
• Lead, support, and/or participate in team wide projects and events—projects to improve team operations and collaboration, events to promote team connection and learning, etc. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:     

• 2+ years of work experience in a role that involves reporting or converting data into actionable insights for business decision making  
• Knowledge and experience in Excel and PowerPoint 
• Knowledge and experience using SQL to query databases and retrieve data for analyses 

Preferred Qualifications: