Senior Technical Program Manager
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.
LinkedIn is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to work within LinkedIn's Compute Infrastructure program management team. Compute Infra powers LinkedIn by allocating compute resources for services, deploying services and enabling service discovery. LinkedIn’s entire machine fleet is managed by compute infrastructure organization.
As we expand our on-prem capabilities and footprint over the next 5-10 years, it is critical for operability, resource efficiency, reliability, and security that we can. In that effort this team is building a next gen Compute Infra platform based on Kubernetes containerization.This platform will provide Linkedin further enhance capabilities to:
• Programmatically allocate and relocate stateless and stateful workloads on hardware.
• Perform routine software/firmware maintenance operations on servers & networking equipment without human intervention.
• Schedule hardware maintenance, turn-up, and decommissioning without manual coordination with application/service owners.
• Handle unplanned failures (whether hardware or software) transparently to application/service owners.
Responsibilities:
• Provide clarity on product/program objectives, ensuring that roles and responsibilities are well understood and address any conflict in a timely manner with minimal direction and assistance from management.
• Interact with executive sponsors and change agents to identify scope, requirements, and manage projects throughout the entirety of the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate and drive large cross-functional projects, serve the needs of multiple stakeholders within a complex multi-faceted organization, and manage that strategy through to completion.
• Apply formal change management practices that ensure that programs are baselined at kickoff and all changes are thoroughly reviewed for justification impact to the program and have received appropriate approvals.
• Anticipate program risks and issues and work to provide resolutions which ensure that stakeholder expectations are set appropriately.
• Effectively communicate information to diverse audiences including translating subject matter terminology into clear business terms and program relevance.
• Facilitate straightforward decisions from complex situations that keep teams and projects moving forward.
• Establish and manage end-to-end processes with various stakeholders in collecting, evaluating and fulfilling their requirements.
• Demonstrate data analysis expertise to develop and communicate meaningful insights, define metrics, and make recommendations on key infrastructure scaling initiatives.
• Deliver solution design specifications and technical requirements for the development and improvement of capacity planning tools and automation.
• Apply business acumen to formulate practical and effective program management approaches to identify optimization opportunities, influence business partners, and drive effective decision making.
• Conduct “what-if” simulations and proactively identify potential capacity issues and partner with product and service owners to minimize risk and reduce cost-to-serve.
• Build and deliver impactful presentations that tell a persuasive story with convictive insights, not just data.
• Manage executive project expectations including owning escalation, communication, and exec level interaction on critical strategic projects for the company.
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:
• 5+ years of technical leadership with a track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner.
• 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:
• Program+Product Management
• Infrastructure platform Development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic Roadmapping
You will Benefit from our Culture:
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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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