Director, Global Function Talent Development Partner

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 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. 

Why is working in Talent at LinkedIn so unique? We like to say working in Talent at LinkedIn is the most meta-Talent job there is - we hire and develop the people who envision the products that power and change the profession of recruiting and talent. Our Global Talent Organization’s (GTO) vision is to “empower our people to do the best work of their careers” and help our customers do the same.  

We are looking for a Director, Global Functional Development Partner to lead the strategic relationship with one or multiple of LinkedIn’s business functions globally, providing internal client consultation, assessment of people and organizational learning needs while evaluating, creating, and implementing talent development strategies to meet LinkedIn’s growth. Strong partnership with HR VPs , Regional Talent Development Partners and Talent Development COEs ensures that interventions and learning activation all come together seamlessly to achieve business goals and advancing skill development and organizational health in alignment with the functional business strategy. 

The ideal candidate will have a track record in L&D, Business HR Consulting and Organizational Development and has experience in developing and implementing strategic talent development strategies for a large, complex global organization. The individual should have experience leading complex organization transformation work, across stakeholder matrix; and they have demonstrated success in introducing and implementing scalable programs to meet priority learning and talent development needs across a fast-paced global organization.   

Responsibilities:  

• Develop and maintain deep understanding of the assigned function’s business and competitive landscape. 
• Built trusted partnerships with leadership, HR team and senior stakeholders. 
• Partner closely with the HR VP of the business function, assess the function’s global development needs and create a strategic talent development strategy for the function (including business impact and measures of success of the talent development priorities and projects). 
• Partner with functional learning teams (where applicable) to integrate technical skill building needs into the functional talent development strategy for an end-to-end holistic learning strategy.  
• Partner and align with the Regional Talent Development Partners on quarterly business reviews of the functional talent development strategy with key HR and business stakeholders as well as with the Centers of Excellence. 
• Lead a small team of Talent Development Partners based in NAMER; in partnership with Regional Talent Development Partners, oversee the global activation of the functional talent development strategy.  
• Collaborate closely with Regional Talent Development Partners to ensure regional needs are represented in the functional talent development strategy and to ensure regional activation of the talent development strategy.  
• Partner closely with the Centers of Excellence (Manager and Executive Development, Performance Management, and others) to ensure functional development needs inform the design of our enterprise-level development programs and performance management approaches.  
• Bring business knowledge and insights to help the Centre’s of Excellence design user-centered products and services aligned to support LinkedIn’s business growth. 

Key skills required as a platform for success within this role include:  

• Consulting and Advisory Skills: Provide expert guidance, insights, and recommendations to business and HR leaders on talent development related matters. This includes diagnosing talent challenges, proposing solutions, and assisting with the implementation of talent development initiatives. 
• Business Acumen: Solid understanding of the organization's industry, market dynamics, and business strategy. This knowl