Staff Technical Program Manager

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This role will be based in Mountain View, California.

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 Staff TPM in its Developer Platforms and Experiences (DPX) organization. The DPX organization is a fast paced, global and dynamic organization that is responsible for accelerating R&D Velocity at LinkedIn. With all of LinkedIn engineering as customers of the DPX organization, it’s essential that the candidate has a very strong technical background. The current TPM team supporting the DPX organization is a very senior team of individuals who partner closely with our most senior leaders (Director+, Senior & Principal Staff engineers) to drive the most critical programs in the organization while also partnering closely with TPMs and leaders outside the DPX organization.

Responsibilities

• Support multiple cross-functional technical teams to deliver their objectives in fast-paced and complex programs and projects
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives
• Own and manage program and portfolio planning, execution of roadmap, and engineering operations for multiple verticals
• Drive alignments and prioritization across all technology initiatives, manage roadmap for a single consistent view and lead communications
• Build strategic relationships with key technology and business leaders to ensure program success
• Drive teams and individuals in planning and executing roadmaps, releases, and work backlogs
• Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths
• Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver
• Report on project status or portfolio roadmap, risks, issues and mitigation plans
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning
• Coach and mentor others in the best practices of modern planning and execution

Basic Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years professional experience in an engineering or technical team, managing technical programs/projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing company wide, large scale, high impact programs
• Proven success on establishing organization-wide processes and communication framework for R&D initiatives
• Direct work 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 adequate technical depth
• Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
• Direct 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
• 2+ years of hands-on software development experience

Suggested Skills

• Cross Functional Collaboration
• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management

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The pay range for this role is $134,000 to $221,000. 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.

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