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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 is based in our Mountain View or Sunnyvale location.
We are looking for a Director of Workplace Change Management and PMO to join our team responsible to lead and operationalize our Relationship Workplace strategy across LinkedIn.
At its core, the Relationship Workplace represents a transformation of our traditional offices into dynamic, AI-first environments that accelerate execution and foster innovation. This strategy aligns with how our R&D organization is evolving into smaller, cross-functional pods of 4–8 employees operating like internal startups with clear deliverables and broad ownership. To help these pods fully leverage our new environments, we must guide them through a comprehensive change management program that include the following:
A clear understanding of the overall strategy and design intent
Workflow optimization and behavioral change enablement
Technology adoption and integration
Optimal use cases across the different spaces, furniture, and technology solutions
Equally important is ongoing engagement before, during, and after transitioning into these new environments ensuring that we continuously gather real-time feedback and iterate our solutions proactively to enhance both performance and employee experience.
Responsibilities:
The Director of Workplace Change Management & PMO will oversee and have accountability for the following:
PMO Execution Excellence
Analyzes and recommends innovative delivery options utilizing best practices and trends, influences the development and implementation of all organizational procedures and standards, and ensures they are followed by all team members and vendors.
Leads team members in identifying and providing recommendations to initiative/project teams that mitigate risk.
Manages the delivery of programs and projects across multiple teams (e.g., new construction and/or retrofits) by making decisions related to area of expertise in partnership with the local program/project team and key stakeholders.
Champions team and program/project goals, ensures adherence to business processes, develops vendor relationships when/where applicable, and fosters positive cross-group collaboration efforts in alignment with the program/project strategy and milestones.
Project and Program Management
Oversees the team's deployment of large-scale and/or regionally based delivery solutions.
Sets goals for internal and external initiative/project teams under their purview of responsibility, delegates responsibilities, measures performance against contracted Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and seeks and delivers feedback to achieve timely results.
Develops, manages, and reports on the scope, schedule, and budget of the projects.
Oversees and implements project controls in work activities (e.g., project expenditure requests (PERs), Professional Service Requests (PSRs), change orders, and pay applications).
Leads the team's accountability for on-schedule delivery of multiple projects by ensuring initiative/project progress reports are provided.
Relationship Management
Engages, advises, and collaborates with other internal teams (e.g., Legal, Risk Management, Data Analytics) to maintain the corporate vision and create goals for the initiatives/programs/projects.
Attends and advises on complex problems during scheduled owner/architect/contractor and other initiative/program/project meetings.
Oversees the management of vendors, ensuring compliance with contracts and prior audit results.
Manages the preparation of Request for Proposals (RFPs), Project Expenditure Requests (PERs), and other project approval tools and templates.
Change Management
Define the Change Strategy and Framework:
Develop a comprehensive change management strategy aligned with the Relationship Workplace vision, ensuring consistency across global sites while adapting to local cultural and business contexts, starting with our 1030 Maude Project in Sunnyvale California.
Drive Leadership and Stakeholder Alignment:
Engage and equip executives, site leads, and people managers with the
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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