Senior Program Manager II, Talent Strategic Initiatives

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 can be based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, 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. 

As part of the Talent Strategic Initiatives team, the Senior Program Manager II will own the operations of our company-wide effort to update our talent architecture and enable LinkedIn to deepen its effectiveness as a skills-based organization. The Senior Program Manager II will report to the Senior Manager of Talent Architecture and will partner with many senior leaders and stakeholders across LinkedIn. This is a unique opportunity to accelerate our momentum, ensure our systems run efficiently within a very complex endeavor, and drive our skills-based org strategy, impacting the career experience of every LinkedIn employee. 

Who are you? You love being a program manager, bringing structure to chaos, aligning cross-functional teams, and driving execution from concept to delivery. You're a systems thinker and operational strategist at heart – someone who thrives on creating clarity, bringing a strategy to life, and implementing big programs. You’re energized by the challenge of untangling complex processes, building scalable solutions, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders. You don’t just manage programs; you architect them for long-term impact. You’re data-savvy, detail-oriented, and passionate about making organizations more effective through thoughtful structure, smart operations, and clear decision-making.  

Responsibilities:

• Build a comprehensive program plan and strategic roadmap to support Talent Architecture, identify dependencies, resources required, and levels of risks between and across all relevant projects.  
• Ensure program deliverables are achieved, drive performance of our LinkedIn team and vendor partners, and conduct after action reviews with supporting project teams to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Improve and evolve the program to build repeatable, scalable processes that result in higher quality, more predictable outcomes.  
• Dig deeply into problems and data, conducting root cause analysis, analyzing operational and workforce data, and creating reports that help us understand program health. Generate data-based program insights and guide program owner and sponsors to make good decisions related to the program.  
• Build strategic relationships to drive long term success and work with project sponsors and functional leaders within GTO, including Compensation, HRBP, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Talent Services, Operations, and Programs (TSOP) and others. Extend our influence by building strategic relationships with Product, Marketing, Sales, Engineering, Finance, etc.  
• Enable the Talent Architecture team to deliver quality, predictable outcomes that serve business needs. Evaluate our current systems, processes, and structure to create a more scalable, streamlined set of processes, reporting mechanisms, and communication plans. Interpret and filter information into actionable formats for program, project, or team consumption.  
• Lead decision-making, alignment, resource asks, bringing in our executive sponsors where needed.  
• Facilitate strategic planning and budget planning, track program outcomes and reporting (e.g., OKRs, quarterly ops reviews), manage our vendor, and hold accountability for meeting our budget targets.  
• Enact a governance approach (e.g., refresh schedule, skill change signals, skills councils) to keep our talent systems and talent architecture working effectively.  
• Identify, apply and role model best practices and flawless program management. Gather and document process for complex project and program requirements. Manage action items, prepare and send agendas in advance of meetings, and provide follow up email summaries and next steps.  
• Mobilize project/program teams and clearly articulate the plan along with roles and responsibilities for each project team member and stakeholders. 

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