Business Operations Manager

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 our San Francisco, CA or Mountain View, CA office.

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. 

LinkedIn’s Biz Ops Transformation Team is seeking a Manager of Business Operations who is a passionate, strategic, analytical and hands-on leader to drive large-scale transformation initiatives across LinkedIn’s most critical operations within R&D, Finance, Talent, and GBO.   In this high impact role, you will find better ways for LinkedIn to run and operate more efficiently through scale, automation, organization design, technology investments, or creating accountable models (e.g. governance models) to deliver against LinkedIn’s priority initiatives.

The role is highly cross-functional, blending strategy & execution, creating clarity and speed to execution of needle-moving corporate priorities.  The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving highly complex ambiguous operational questions within LinkedIn, and has exceptional business acumen and the skills to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact change.

Responsibilities:

• Enable corporate-wide initiatives by developing the transformation strategy (people, process, technology, or policy changes), setting ambitious goals and KPI targets to achieve objectives
• Identify growth and productivity leverage opportunities to create operational efficiencies and reduce complexity across various teams within R&D, GBO, M&C, GTO, and Finance
• Drive data-driven analysis, size opportunities, develop understanding of key performance drivers to identify areas of improvement and prioritize strategic opportunities.  
• Act as the connective tissue across multiple cross-functional teams to shape the vision, influence decisions, bridge different points of views, see-around-the-corner for any LinkedIn implications.
• Chart and execute the course of action by enacting change and setting the foundations for teams to execute on their initiatives, helping to deliver against strategic outcomes
• Define actionable deliverables, create workstreams, define RAPIDs, track and monitor progress, diagnose and resolve issues, proactively manage risks and address misalignment between teams.
• Communicate and present succinctly and effectively in exec-ready formats

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience 
• 6+ years of general work experience, including 3+ years of experience in management consulting, business operations, strategy consulting or equivalent roles

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or other advanced degrees preferred
• Experience with operational design, process improvements, governance creation and oversight, technology assessments, implementation and execution. 
• Ability to structure and analyze problems effectively to develop the team’s thinking, facilitate alignment on key strategic decisions among various stakeholders, and identify 80/20 opportunities to reach insightful, implementable, and impactful answers.
• Able to have a strong, independent voice to push teams’ thinking, influence leaders on direction, while able to build trust-based relationships across the company to drive alignment
• High-energy, team-first, positive attitude: Must be motivated to work hard in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills: Need solid written and verbal communications skills and presence to be able to facilitate discussions and communicate insights with senior-level leaders.

Suggested Skills:

• Strategic thinking
• Data-driven decision making  
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems
• Executive level communications

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.    

The pay range for this role is $119,000 to $193,000.  Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candi