Senior Associate, Central Strategic Initiatives – Global Go-to-market Operations, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

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 New York, Chicago, San Francisco, or Sunnyvale. 

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 is searching for a Central Strategic Initiatives, Senior Associate to assist with various new and existing programs managed by the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Global Go-to-Market Operations Strategic Planning & Initiatives team. The Senior Associate will leverage their program management experience, superior communication, relationship building skills, and analytical abilities to provide timely solutions to partners, and successful program execution / leadership.  

Candidates hoping to fill this role must be proactive, collaborative, solution-oriented and comfortable managing multiple cross-functional relationships and projects concurrently. 

 Responsibilities:  

• Manage global, complex workstreams in programs with multiple stakeholders   
• Define success metrics of program and measure results  
• Deploy best in class project/program management (e.g. managing timelines, tracking and communicating progress, setting expectations with stakeholders, issue resolution)  
• Be an effective agent of change by developing a change management framework on what we communicate, how we train teams and support talent changes  
• Identify and appropriately escalate risks which could jeopardize the successful rollout and recommend options for resolution  
• Provide a regular cadence of updates to the leadership team on progress and plan to mitigate risk  
• Develop mitigations and solutions with various stakeholders to ensure successful program outcomes  
• Leverage program management framework to drive consistent, best-in-class program management  
• Create strong collaborative partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders  
• Act like an owner and have an impact outside of your core functions by demonstrating leadership, providing leverage and producing results that will help effectively scale  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:   

• 4+ years of experience in program/project management, management consulting, sales, strategy or operations 
• Knowledge of MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)  
• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience  

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision  
• Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments  
• Excellent collaboration, influence, organizational, and program management skills   
• Ability to define ambiguous problems and drive towards outcomes  
• Ability to present data in an effective, actionable manner and learn new software quickly  
• Ability to think strategically with a proven track record of providing consultative and data driven solutions  
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams   
• Experience working with CRM, sales and data visualization tools  
• Knowledge of SQL or other programming languages 
• Experience working in the digital advertising or marketing industry 
• PMP or Six-Sigma Certified  

Suggested Skills: 

• Program/Project Management 
• Change/Stakeholder Management  
• Communication 
• Design Thinking 
• Prioritization 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 
 
The pay range for this role is $96,000 to $156,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations. 
 
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: