Job Specifications
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
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.
This role can be based in either our San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Chicago, New York, or Omaha offices.
LinkedIn is searching for a Senior Associate, Global Strategic Initiatives to assist with various new and existing programs managed by the Strategic Planning & Initiatives team for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. The Senior Associate will leverage their program management experience, superior communication, relationship building skills, and analytical abilities to provide timely solutions to partners, and successful program execution / leadership.
Candidates hoping to fill this role must be proactive, collaborative, solution-oriented and comfortable managing multiple cross-functional relationships and projects concurrently.
Responsibilities:
Manage global, complex workstreams in programs with multiple stakeholders
Define success metrics of program and measure results
Deploy best in class project/program management (e.g. managing timelines, tracking and communicating progress, setting expectations with stakeholders, issue resolution)
Be an effective agent of change by developing a change management framework on what we communicate, how we train teams and support talent changes
Identify and appropriately escalate risks which could jeopardize the successful rollout and recommend options for resolution
Provide a regular cadence of updates to the leadership team on progress and plan to mitigate risk
Develop mitigations and solutions with various stakeholders to ensure successful program outcomes
Leverage program management framework to drive consistent, best-in-class program management
Create strong collaborative partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders
Act like an owner and have an impact outside of your core functions by demonstrating leadership, providing leverage and producing results that will help effectively scale
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
4+ years of experience in program/project management, management consulting, sales, strategy, or operations
Experience using MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)
BA/BS degree in business, finance, or related field or equivalent practical experience
Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments
Excellent collaboration, influence, organizational, and program management skills
Ability to define ambiguous problems and drive towards outcomes
Ability to present data in an effective, actionable manner and learn new software quickly
Ability to think strategically with a proven track record of providing consultative and data driven solutions
Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
Experience working with CRM, sales and data visualization tools
Knowledge of SQL or other programming languages
Experience working in the digital advertising or marketing industry
PMP or Six-Sigma Certified
LinkedIn for Marketing certifications completed
Suggested Skills:
Program/Project Management
Change/Stakeholder Management
Communication
Design Thinking
Prioritization
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $105,000 to $170,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, col
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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