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This role will be based in Sunnyvale, CA.
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.
LinkedIn is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to work within LinkedIn's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) program management team. The right candidate will have demonstrated consistent leadership in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. This candidate is expected to perform using best practices for execution of our SRE projects as well as initiating, planning, and executing intermediate-to-large scale, cross functional, and company-wide programs.
The ideal candidate will have a good balance of people, organizational, and technical skills, and can execute and deliver successfully in situations where authority is not a given. Interaction and leadership across functional lines is essential. At this level of professional development, the candidate will be able to concisely articulate all of the interactions and factors that contribute to the final outcome.
About the Team:
The Capacity Engineering team builds high-quality infrastructure tooling and services to ensure the end-to-end capacity of LinkedIn at scale. The team is responsible to bring accountability into our capacity & forecasting processes through fleet and application insights. In addition, our metrics have high visibility across R&D and are leveraged by the lines of business to drive long-term strategy and investment in their organizations.
As a Senior TPM on the Capacity Engineering team, you will be responsible for driving the cross-functional programs developing these cutting-edge software delivery products & platforms in addition to shaping the strategy and vision of the TPM organization as LinkedIn’s business and technology landscapes evolve and shift. You will work closely with engineers and partners from all parts of the company, from product to infrastructure and more.
Responsibilities:
• Lead and develop plans including application releases/updates, data/hardware migrations, and site stability/performance improvements.
• Develop a comprehensive product roadmap and strategy by working together with Engineering, Analytics, Design and other cross functional teams to get buy-in for the product vision.
• Define, scope, and track ancillary operations projects including capacity planning hardware procurement and deployment, etc.
• Discover inefficiencies in our production pipelines and drive solutions to completion.
• Partner with Director/Sr. Manager level leadership on project execution and team efficiency.
• You will help teams be more efficient, 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.
• Lead efforts to resolve project conflicts and establish appropriate resolution paths.
• Manage dependencies between multiple projects.
• Mentor junior talent in best practices for planning and execution.
• Develop strong partnerships with technology and business leaders.
• Assess and mitigate risk exposure.
• Manage resource planning.
Basic Qualifications:
• B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4+ years of experience in Technical Program and Product management, including feature development, roadmap management and experience in Agile Methods within an SRE or infrastructure team.
Preferred Qualifications:
• 2+ years of technical leadership with a track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner.
• Demonstrated understanding of technology-based product lifecycle management including development launch and management phases and primary roles/responsibilities and deliverables of key organizational functions.
• Good analytic skills to translate requirements and designs into successful action plans.
• Experience leading small-to-medium dynamic programs and projects with cross-functional matrixed resources working in a fast paced collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders set direction and approach mobilize and motivate teams and execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• Proven problem-solving skills to anticipate the risks of non-performance and incorporate prevention and remediation measures within the implementation plan.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across different functions and optimally influence senior business partners.
• Demonstrated conflict resolution skills combined with strong negotiation ability delivered with a high level of influence and professionalism.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent time management skills.
Suggested Skills:
• ProgramManagement
• Product 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 $112,000 to $183,000. 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.com/benefits.
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