Sr. Program Manager, PMO

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, Sunnyvale, Chicago, New York, or Omaha. 

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. 

As Sr. Program Manager, Go-To-Market Enablement, you will lead and manage global go-to-market field enablement programs and develop project strategies for our Centre of Excellence (COE) that supports our Talent Solutions business. You will seek to unlock the full potential of products through education, measurement, and operational excellence. You’ll embrace continuous learning and diverse feedback to ensure that our team’s tools and programs are constantly evolving and improving to meet the needs of our customers. 

In this role, our Sr. Program Manager will identify, develop and manage high priority initiatives that drive continued sales success within the Program Management Office in the COE. You will work closely with Go-To-Market Enablement, Sales, Customer Success and cross-functional leaders including, but not limited to, Product Marketing, Insights, Sales Ops, BizOps, to ensure that programs are properly scoped and resourced, timelines are accurate, and leaders are engaged and informed of key responsibilities. You will also be responsible for identifying and mitigating risks, resolving blockers, tracking performance, and communicating project status updates to internal business partners.   

Responsibilities 

• Build, lead and execute global cross-functional project teams to ensure programs are successfully deployed and capabilities are delivered.  
• Be a people coach or mentor for other peers within the PMO team 
• Drive strategic horizontal initiatives that advance the ability of the Go-To-Market Enablement organization to deliver advanced quality learning experiences for internal stakeholders and teams. 
• Be the subject matter expert who enables our partners to deliver world class learning programs via consultations, training, education, and guidance. 
• Innovate processes based on our evolving requirements, and develop a repeatable process, partner with product marketing teams to define process requirements, roles and responsibilities and decision-making matrices.  
• Develop strategic enablement plans and project timelines, own the completion of milestones, prioritize actions, communicate with multiple stakeholders, use analytical ability to measure and report status, handle risk mitigation, and eliminate blockers as needed. 
• Continuously evaluate priorities, develop plans, and meet multiple deadlines in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment. 
• Develop relevant rhythm of the business dashboards for programs to ensure transparency and alignment with partners and leaders.  
• Effectively communicate throughout the program deployment lifecycle and be an influential change champion. 
• Go deep in understanding and validating internal and external customer needs, translate them into specific and actionable requirements, product roadmaps, learning journeys and project plans.  
• Use problem solving skills to logically structure ambiguous problems, conduct data-driven analysis, extrapolate key insights, and deliver recommendations.  
• Identify opportunities for improvement and implement approved recommendations.  
• Learn quickly, be agile and proactive, as well as assume ownership for broad tracks and global workstreams.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• BA or BS degree or related practical experience 
• 5+ years of experience in program management or project management 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Strong inclination toward program and people management  
• Strong communication skills, including written and verbal communication 
• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to lead cross-functional teams in decision-making processes 
• Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments 
• Experience working in tech, digital and/or Education or Learning space 
• Experience working with or in sales teams and