HR Process Excellence 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 can be based in Mountain View, San Francisco, Carpinteria, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Omaha, or Washington DC. 

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options. This means you can 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, or you can work remotely from most locations within the country listed for this role.  

Join our dynamic Process Excellence Team, where innovation meets purpose. We're on a mission to revolutionize how we deliver services to our employees, shared services organization, and HR stakeholders. As a HR Process Excellence Partner, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization by driving seamless and simplified processes. This is a diverse and exciting role where every day is different and each challenge is unique! 

In this role, you'll be at the forefront of multiple complex, high-visibility strategic projects spanning regions and functions. Collaborating with diverse teams across HR and beyond, you'll identify opportunities for improvement, design future-state processes, and implement best practices to propel us towards our strategic objectives. 

But it's not just about processes; it's about fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You'll be the catalyst for change, inspiring and empowering our teams to embrace lean principles and constantly strive for greater efficiency and effectiveness. Your passion for innovation and your knack for training and coaching will drive transformative change across the organization. 

If you're ready to unleash your potential, lead with purpose, and drive meaningful change, we invite you to join us on our journey. Together, let's redefine the future of work and make a lasting impact on the world. 

Responsibilities: 

Report to the Director, HR Process Excellence, within the Talent Services and Operations Department.  

Process Analysis & continuous improvement: 

• Act as a process consultant and partner with PMO office (HR Enablement), HR Operations, and IT to drive strategic initiatives.  

• Collaborate across HR departments and cross functionally to support business needs specific to operational processes, projects, or introduction of new services. 

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of existing HR processes to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement. 

• Maintain HR process documentation, tools, templates, standards, and training content. 

• Provide improvement insights using basic improvement methodologies and tools (Lean & Six Sigma). 

• Utilize DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology to structure and deliver process improvement projects. 

• Document HR process steps and requirements for new ways of working including analysis or development of standard operating procedures. 

• Assist in development and baselining operational excellence metrics by identifying, collecting, and synthesizing key measures and performance metric targets. 

• Conduct process maturity analysis, identifying areas of improvement and partnering with the business or process owner to implement improvements to progressively mature their processes. 

Strategic Project Support: 

• Operate globally and lead process workstreams on GTO strategic initiatives which will require a comprehensive assessment of current state processes as well as development of future state process designs.  

• Define process objectives, scope, timelines, and success criteria in alignment with strategic priorities. 

• Lead cross-functional project teams to execute process improvement projects from initiation to completion. 

• Conduct regular status updates and communicate project progress, risks, and issues to stakeholders and leadership. 

• Partner with change managers to implement change management strategies to drive adoption of new processes and ensure sustained im