Global Enablement Lead

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 San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Carpinteria, Chicago, New York, or Omaha

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.

As a Global Enablement Lead, you are responsible for driving high-impact, scalable field enablement solutions for the Global Business Organization, supporting our LinkedIn Talent Solutions business line. Solutions include go-to-market sales motions, sales skills development, product launches, and other key global business priorities.  

• Act as lead subject matter enablement expert for large, complex, multi-quarter and multi-year sales initiatives requiring learning programs and change management to enable the field 
• Work closely with partners within enablement (Learning Design, Sales Performance Consulting, Program Operations) and across the company (Product Marketing, Sales Operations, Policy, Pricing) to develop and recommend seamless, comprehensive enablement programs that are grounded in our core sales skills and are aligned to business goals 
• Align all programs and initiatives with key business priorities and performance targets. 
• Use analytically driven insights to evaluate, validate and optimize programs based on business impact 
• Ensure effective change management and communication strategies are established across programs, including regionally, to ensure increased awareness and adoption, buy-in and engagement across the broader Enablement and Sales organizations. 
• Communicate up and across, ensuring global leaders have awareness and understand impact of programs, and provide Sales Performance Consulting team members with the necessary tools to activate your programs across regions and segments 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• 3 + years of experience leading complex multi-stakeholder programs 
• 6 + years of experience in related fields (Sales, Sales Management, Enablement, Human Capital Consulting, L&D) 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Leads with Operational Excellence: Creates clear priorities mapped back to business objectives, manages effectively under tight deadlines, and ensures clarity for all stakeholders.  Drives operational processes and structure through scoping, executing, reporting and analyzing program impact  
• Leads Through Change: Successful record of leading organizational change. Experience leading change for sales preferred. 
• Leads in Decentralized Environments: Previous leadership success in highly decentralized organizations, which require collaboration, consensus, and a high degree of influence to be successful. 
• Communications management: Demonstrated ability to coordinate and communicate the appropriate messages to the right audiences when managing change. Ability to ensure all stakeholders have the information they need when it is needed.  
• Demonstrates Business and Sales Acumen: Previous experience owning programs and acting as the business expert when working with partners to develop learning experiences. Ensures programs are highly relevant to sales and the line of business.  
• Learning program design and management: Experience with the design and build of learning programs including exposure to creating learning objectives, learning experiences, and program management.  
• Experience managing relationships and partnering with cross-functional teams to roll out large enablement programs at scale 
• Brings Innovative and Creative Mindset: Experience in bringing creative, out-of-the-box solutions to drive innovative and engaging enablement programs that solve for the skill requirements needed in the most effective way

Suggested Skills: 

• Leading complex programs
• Stakeholder management
• Enablement

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $107,000 to $175,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not l