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This role will be based in Bangalore, India.
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.
The LinkedIn Infrastructure Engineering Technical Program Management Group is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team which is part of LinkedIn’s Infrastructure engineering organization. Infrastructure engineering consists of over 2,000 engineers who are responsible for infrastructure that runs linkedin.com. The org builds and operates massive-scale systems ranging from physical DCs, networking, storage, compute, observability to Data and AI/ML platforms. We also contribute to the technical community by open sourcing our latest technologies.
The ideal candidate will have an excellent 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.The candidate will be able to concisely articulate and abstract the project status, risks and success to various levels of engineering org.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, and ensure alignment with business priorities.
- Define product vision, mission, and success metrics, translating them into actionable roadmaps.
- Demonstrate data analysis expertise to develop and communicate meaningful insights, and make recommendations on key infrastructure scaling initiatives.
- Lead and deliver complex, cross-functional programs and processes with predictability, alignment, and a focus on scalable solutions.
- Act as a role model for collaboration, leveraging relationships and influence decision-making across strategy and execution.
- Develop and manage plans, ensuring alignment across teams, while effectively evaluating and pivoting unsuccessful programs when necessary.
- Continuously refine and improve cross-team processes to drive efficiency and scalability in the Infrastructure Engineering organization.
- Quickly acquire and maintain domain knowledge to actively participate in technical discussions and ensure program plans align with engineering goals.
- Model behavior for reducing, resolving, and preventing conflicts constructively, utilizing clean escalation techniques when required.
- Utilize metrics to track velocity, measure success, and iteratively improve execution frameworks to achieve team goals.
- Deliver high-quality communication, including crafting messaging for sensitive situations, and engage with senior leadership as appropriate.
- Build and deliver impactful presentations that tell a persuasive story with convictive insights, not just data.
Basic Qualifications:
- B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in Technical Program and Product management, including feature development, roadmap management and experience in Agile Methods in Infra product/platform development teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A PMP or other relevant Program Management Certification.
- Strong technical acumen, ability to learn new technologies quickly.
- Demonstrated understanding of technology-based product lifecycle management including development launch and management phases and primary roles/responsibilities and deliverables of key organizational functions.
- Exceptional analytic skills to translate requirements and designs into successful action plans.
- Experience leading 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.
- Strong practical understanding of managing the life-cycle of large-scale programs
- 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:
- Collaboration
- Data analysis
- Product vision
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