Director, Talent Programs - COO Organization

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, New York or Chicago.

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.

Talent at LinkedIn is unlike anywhere else. We hire, develop, and empower the people who build products that redefine how the world hires and grows talent. Our vision is to ensure every employee—and every customer—can do the best work of their careers. 

We are seeking a Director, Talent Programs to serve as the strategic partner leading critical talent programs for LinkedIn’s COO organization, and to lead the Functional Talent Development team that supports this critical business. This role is uniquely positioned at the intersection of talent strategy, performance enablement, leadership development, and large-scale change management. 

This leader will be accountable for the following: 

1. Driving the design and activation of the Unlocking Growth talent strategy for COO, which sets new expectations for leadership, performance, and development across the organization. 
2. Leading and developing the Functional Talent Development team, ensuring operational excellence, cohesive strategy execution, and high-quality delivery across all talent development programs and initiatives. 
3. Partnering with Functional HRBPs to deliver critical talent strategies that align with key business priorities. 

Success in this role requires a leader who can set vision, mobilize teams, operate with discipline, and partner closely with senior HR and business leaders to deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities 

Functional Talent Development Leadership

• Lead, inspire, and develop the COO Functional Talent Development team, providing clear direction, coaching, and support to ensure excellence in execution and cohesion across global workstreams. 
• Build team capability, aligning roles, priorities, and workflows to support both near-term execution and the long-term Unlocking Growth talent strategy. 
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement within the Functional TD team. 

Strategic Talent Leadership

• Lead the continued design, evolution, and execution of the Unlocking Growth talent strategy for the COO organization, ensuring alignment to business priorities and clarity of success measures. 
• Partner closely with the COO LT, HRBP teams, and cross-functional partners to identify priority talent needs and design solutions that accelerate performance and operational impact. 
• Serve as a strategic advisor on leadership expectations, performance practices, and talent programs—challenging thinking, identifying root causes, and shaping decisions through data and insight. 

Performance Management & Leadership Expectations

• Lead the build and implementation of the new performance management framework for the COO organization, ensuring integration into leadership routines and talent practices. 
• Partner on the activation of leadership expectations, ensuring they are embedded into performance, development, succession, and daily leader behaviors. 
• Once new initiatives are hardened, transfer ongoing ROB responsibilities to identified HRBP owners. 

Change Leadership & Transformation

• Lead the change management strategy needed to help leaders and teams adopt new talent practices across the COO organization. 
• Manage cross-functional workstreams, ensuring alignment, clarity of roles, and consistency in messaging, tooling, and implementation. 
• Monitor adoption, trends, gather feedback, and success measures to ensure the changes take hold and deliver the intended impact. 

Execution Excellence

• Oversee end-to-end execution of talent development initiatives, ensuring disciplined planning, resourcing, governance, and delivery. 
• Work closely with regional TD partners and COEs to drive cohesive global execution and effective regiona