Sr Talent Management Consultant Talent Architect

This role can be based in San Francisco Mountain View or Chicago. 

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.

At LinkedIn we are doubling down on our skillsbased organizational strategy. If you are someone who wants to directly impact and drive our skillsbased talent strategy for LinkedIn employees we have the opportunity for you. As a Talent Architect youll be responsible for helping us to build our internal talent architecture. Not only will you be working alongside a team of Talent Architects but you will be partnering with senior leaders across the business HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and other Global Talent Organization (GTO) leaders. Talent Architecture is one of GTOs core priorities.   

Talent Architecture is a team that offers the ability to drive impact and get direct exposure to talent strategy and operations. If you are someone who likes to build from the ground up likes to solve interesting and complex challenges is a strong project manager and who is comfortable with ambiguity this is the role for you.  

Responsibilities: 

In your daytoday work youll be interacting with HRBPs GTO partners (such as Compensation Talent Acquisition Talent Development and many others) business leaders our vendor partner and your team members to accomplish our ambitions of rebuilding our talent architecture foundation for our company.   

• You will partner on projects that will enable us to be successful in implementing skills strategies on both sides of the talent equation: demand (i.e. what skills do our roles require) and supply (i.e. what skills do our employees have).  
• You will be responsible for a set of roles (e.g. engineering sales crossfunctional) orchestrating the job analysis process (alongside a vendor) to identify the responsibilities skills and skills proficiencies for employees in an org.  Youll analyze roles that exist and recommend changes as needed coordinating with HRBPs Comp and the business.  
• As the point of contact within your segment you will be responsible for communications project management change management and deliverables for that segment. Your role will require upskilling relevant parties (e.g. the business HRBP teams TA team etc. on talent architecture and aligning the work to key outcomes for your partners.  
• Given the size and startup nature of the team youll have multiple projects at any time and will have to be agile and flexible as we develop our approach and process.  

Our work will unlock: 

• Greater internal mobility by helping employees see how the skills they have match the skills for the roles they want 
• Improved performance practices and career conversations between managers and employees based on clear consistent role documentation 
• Increased consistency within our hiring process that is based on a candidates skills and experiences 
• Improved sophistication in workforce planning 

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications: 

• BA/BS or equivalent experience  
• 5 years experience in HR Talent management consulting or equivalent  

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Masters degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Human Resources Management or related field or experience in management consulting  
• Experience developing or implementing a job architecture 
• Experience with job analysis and/or competency modeling particularly with sales roles (quota and nonquota) 
• Experience with project and/or program management 
• Experience building or implementing skillsbased strategies or technology  
• Experience with designing and/or executing change management initiatives  
• Experience diagnosing talent problems and providing databased recommendations that serve business needs 

Suggested skills:  

• Project management  
• Analytical problem solving 
• Crossteam collaboration 
• Change management  
• Consulting 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $112000 to $181000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.  

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus stock benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information visit https://careers.linkedin/benefits.  

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