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 is based in Sunnyvale or San Francisco.
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.
As a Staff Design Program Manager (DPM), you will be part of our Design and Research Operations Team. The Design and Research Operations Team’s mission is to enable the design team with the tools, processes, and resources that make them - and thus our products - more productive and successful. We help ensure our products that are designed by hundreds, feel and look as if they were designed by one.
This role will be embedded within the Consumer Design Product Team to lead complex, multi-disciplinary programs. You’ll be responsible for championing processes to help the team of designers build impactful experiences across the company. You’re explaining your team’s goals and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers and product managers. A successful staff design program manager leverages deep application/platform knowledge and design acumen in combination with business and project management domain expertise, to drive successful programs.
Learn more about our design community at design.linkedin.com
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Responsibilities:
• Launch and manage initiatives that improve our design org’s operations, including building, managing, and identifying operational improvements to creative workflows. This includes owning schedules, task assignments, and driving changes to optimize efficiency for designers and researchers.
• Build relationships with design managers, designers, program managers, researchers and cross functional partners.
• Collaborate with design team leadership in key project decision-making, including requirements gathering, scheduling, resource allocation, and coordinating teams and approval processes.
• Help stakeholders across business lines integrate LinkedIn products more closely. Manage program risks, communicate progress, status, expectations, dependencies, and risks to executives and business stakeholders.
• Proactively contribute to shared design resources with best practices, tips, and templates. Own and manage team documentation, including team sites, status, and other centralized resources.
• Facilitate team onboarding with the Learning & Development team for new hires and rotations.
• Keep a pulse on team morale, escalating risks to leadership and identifying opportunities for improvement.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 8 years in design program management, design operations, design management, product management, or other relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Experience working with a large internal design team, including product design, user research, content design, design operations, and the overall product design process.
• Ability to help plan design resourcing needs and map out quarterly priorities in partnership with design leadership.
• Ability to establish relationships, build rapport, and influence cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Ability to distinguish critical from non-critical issues and set teams focus and priorities accordingly.
• The ability to break down issues to key fundamentals and drive the team toward action.
• Ability to partner with design leadership to brainstorm ideas for team collaboration and relationship building events.
• An ability to organize cross-functional activities into a complete plan, recognizing interdependence, and establishing a framework for the team to build out the plan and mentoring the execution of that plan.
• Ability to coach others and champion member value.
• Ability to handle ambiguity, set goals and effectively deliver to them if project plans shift and need to adapt.
Suggested Skills:
• Problem Solving
• Collaboration
• Technical Knowledge
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $134,000-$221,000. 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 offic
Location: Sunnyvale, CA
Posted: Sept. 19, 2024, 11:51 p.m.
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