Manager, Technical Program Management

This role will be based in Mountain View CA.

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.

We are seeking a Manager Technical Program Management to join our Online Infrastructure TPM this role you will lead and develop a team of Technical Program Managers while partnering closely with senior technical leaders to define prioritize and drive complex infrastructure portfolios. You will establish and evolve program management governance execution frameworks and operating rhythms that enable successful delivery across large cross-functional infrastructure teams.

The Online Infrastructure TPM team drives large-scale modernization and migration initiatives across LinkedIns advanced infrastructure including in-house data storage and analytics systems entity management platforms query and serving layers and experimentation platforms. The broader Online Infrastructure organization is responsible for building LinkedIns next-generation platformsspanning application and service delivery compute massively scalable storage and replication systems search AI/ML platforms experimentation and privacy and compliance.

In this role you will work alongside some of the best engineers in the industry applying deep systems thinking and technical judgment across distributed systems APIs and large-scale platform architectures. LinkedIn has pioneered and continues to maintain industry-leading open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka Pinot Samza Azkaban Venice DataHub and others while also leveraging industry standards like Kubernetes gRPC and GraphQL. You will help shape programs that operate at extreme scale while contributing to technology that impacts millions of people globally.

At this level the ideal candidate can clearly articulate complex tradeoffs dependencies and interactions that influence program outcomes and coach the team to do the same. You bring a strong balance of people leadership organizational rigor and technical depth and you are effective in driving alignment and execution in highly matrixed environments where authority is not assumed. Success in this role requires demonstrated experience leading teams and large programs influencing across organizational boundaries and consistently delivering high-impact results.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Online Infra TPM team and manage the right mix of projects and programs in the portfolio.
• Manage TPM assignment and allocation and ensure portfolio and project health through appropriate resource allocation prioritization and focus.
• Develop product strategies roadmaps and resource plans with leadership.
• Partner with Sr. Director/VP level leadership on project execution and team efficiency.
• Interact one-to-one with individual technical contributors senior leaders as well as coaching teams.
• Evaluate champion and drive adoption of Agile methodologies throughout the team where applicable.
• Help teams be more efficient and see the big picture and ensure processes scale appropriately with the company.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy transparency mastery innovation and learning.
• Manage and maintain project backlogs and ensure forward momentum with project execution.
• Leads efforts to resolve project conflicts and establish appropriate resolution paths.
• Manage dependencies between multiple projects.
• Mentor individuals in best practices for planning and execution.
• Develop strong partnerships with technology and business leaders.
• Assess and mitigate risk exposure.
• Manage resource planning.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S./B.A. in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of people management experience managing technical and/or technical program management teams.
• 3 years of full time program management experience within an Engineering department.
• Experience managing infrastructure based programs or projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience Agile methods and practices through multiple teams (Scrum and Kanban).
• Theoretical understanding of managing the lifecycle of large-scale programs and projects.
• Effective communication skills; skilled at cross-functional and cross-organizational communication and attention to detail.
• Experience with software engineering practices and familiarity with coding techniques.
• Ability to traverse both vertically and horizontally in a large organization.
• Ability to traverse tactical and strategic objectives.
• Experience in planning and collaboration tools.

Suggested Skills

• People Management
• ProgramProduct Management
• Infrastructure Tool Development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic Roadmaps

You will Benefit from our Culture:

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $139000 to $229000 . 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 Information :

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We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race color religion creed gender national origin age disability veteran status marital status pregnancy sex gender expression or identity sexual orientation citizenship or any other legally protected class.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening apply for a position or participate in the interview process connect with us at and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However non-disability related requests such as following up on an application will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn or (c) consistent with LinkedIns legal duty to furnish information.

San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: Work :

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