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This role will be based in Bengaluru.
The Productivity Engineering TPM organization spans technology across LinkedIn's developer products, customer journeys, and related infrastructure. We solve some of the toughest productivity problems faced by engineers and our employees. Every day, we push ourselves to further hone the competitive edge and provide frictionless tools and applications to power the productivity of LinkedIn.
Linkedin is looking for Staff Technical Program Managers for our Productivity Engineering organization. You will be responsible for driving strategic programs and tactical projects that enable our organization to build and scale world class platforms that serve our end users, customers and LinkedIn’s employees. You will partner with engineering teams and a variety of stakeholders across LinkedIn, to lead some of the most complex and impactful initiatives.
The successful candidate will be technically strong, have a solid track record of program and project management, will have worked with a large number of stakeholders, and will have demonstrated excellent planning, execution and delivery.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
Responsibilities:
Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives for data related programs and projects
Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives
Drive new organization-wide programs to ensure data and reporting across the Productivity Engineering space.
Own and manage program and portfolio planning, execution of roadmap, and engineering operations for multiple verticals
Drive alignments and prioritization across all technology initiatives, manage roadmap for a single consistent view and lead communications
Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success
Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs
Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths
Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver
Report on project status or portfolio roadmap, risks, issues and mitigation plans
Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning
Coach and mentor others in the best practices of modern planning and execution
Basic Qualifications:
B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
8+ years professional experience in an engineering or technical team, managing technical programs/projects
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience managing company wide, large scale, high impact programs
Proven success on establishing organization-wide processes and communication framework for R&D initiatives
Direct work experience in a technical project management capacity to drive large technical initiatives including all aspects of process development and execution.
Knowledge of complex data and AI architecture and adequate technical depth
Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
Direct experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams and individual contributors
Ability to quickly adapt to faster pace, shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
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