Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Product Services Marketplaces

Company Description LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description 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.

Our Products and Services Marketplace (PSM) vision is to become the definitive B2B commerce platform for all organizations worldwide, empowering marketers, sellers, buyers, users and customers to drive better outcomes for themselves and their businesses. The PSM strategy recognizes that we will continue to deliver value to our LMS and LSS businesses, and that the lion’s share of our investment will be going to directly drive growth in these two areas. In addition, we have identified two focus areas: Marketing and Sales solutions for our customers. We are looking for a Senior Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team to drive R&D initiatives across LMS, LSS and partner orgs.

Successful candidates will have a solid track record of program and project management and will have demonstrated excellent leadership, along with superior organizational and communication skills in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. In addition, the right candidate will possess superior B2B business strategy sense, product intuition, and technical understanding to fully integrate with product development teams and contribute at any level of depth. This position will report into technical program management leadership within LinkedIn's engineering team.

Responsibilities:

• Drive program and portfolio planning, engineering operations, and strategic execution for LinkedIn’s Products and Services Marketplaces (PSM).
• Lead end-to-end technical programs, navigating from conception and planning to delivery and measurable business impact.
• Foster collaboration across cross-functional technical teams to achieve objectives in fast-paced, complex environments.
• Build strong partnerships with engineering, product management, and VP-level leadership to ensure alignment with PSM's broader business goals.
• Define and manage a unified program roadmap, aligning team priorities with organizational strategy.
• Take ownership of driving holistic decision-making by analyzing risks, anticipating challenges, and implementing effective mitigation strategies.
• Enhance organizational processes and agile methodologies while championing continuous improvement and innovation across teams.
• Mentor and coach teams in technical program management, fostering a culture of mastery, autonomy, and excellence.
• Advocate for technical vision and guide teams through ambiguous challenges, integrating creative problem-solving into program delivery.
• Act as a bridge between diverse teams, empowering stakeholders to collaborate and drive outcomes that align with LinkedIn’s vision of economic opportunity for the global workforce.

Qualifications 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, of which at least 6+ years are managing technical programs/projects
• 5+ years of experience in Agile Methods through multiple teams (Scrum, Kanban)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with large Consumer Products and Enterprise initiatives
• Experience in driving Ads domain programs and initiatives
• Experience establishing organization-wide processes and communication framework for R&D initiatives
• 2+ years of hands-on software development experience
• Experience in a technical project management capacity to drive large technical initiatives including all aspects of process development and execution.
• Knowledge of complex technical ecosystems and technical depth
• Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
• 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

Suggested Skills

• Cross Functional Collaboration
• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management

Additional Information Linkedin is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $166,000 to $271,000. 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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