Senior Technical Program Manager - Infrastructure Engineering

Staff Technical Program Manager

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.

This role will be based in Bangalore, India.

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.

Job Description

We are currently looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our Infrastructure Engineering team which consists of over 2,000 engineers who are responsible for building infrastructure that powers linkedin.com. The Infra Org operates massive-scale systems ranging from physical DCs, networking, storage, compute, observability to Data and AI/ML platforms. We also contribute to the technical community by open sourcing our latest technologies.

The ideal candidate will have an excellent balance of people, organizational, and technical skills, and can execute and deliver successfully in situations where authority is not a given. Interaction and leadership across functional lines is essential.The candidate will be able to concisely articulate and abstract the project status, risks and success to various levels of engineering org.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, and ensure alignment with business priorities.

• Define product vision, mission, and success metrics, translating them into actionable roadmaps.

• Demonstrate data analysis expertise to develop and communicate meaningful insights, and make recommendations on key infrastructure scaling initiatives.

• Lead and deliver complex, cross-functional programs and processes with predictability, alignment, and a focus on scalable solutions.

• Act as a role model for collaboration, leveraging relationships and influence decision-making across strategy and execution.

• Develop and manage plans, ensuring alignment across teams, while effectively evaluating and pivoting unsuccessful programs when necessary.

• Continuously refine and improve cross-team processes to drive efficiency and scalability in the Infrastructure Engineering organization.

• Quickly acquire and maintain domain knowledge to actively participate in technical discussions and ensure program plans align with engineering goals.

• Model behavior for reducing, resolving, and preventing conflicts constructively, utilizing clean escalation techniques when required.

• Utilize metrics to track velocity, measure success, and iteratively improve execution frameworks to achieve team goals.

• Deliver high-quality communication, including crafting messaging for sensitive situations, and engage with senior leadership as appropriate.

• Build and deliver impactful presentations that tell a persuasive story with convictive insights, not just data.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 10+ years of experience in Technical Program management, including feature development, roadmap management, and experience in Agile Methods in Infra product/platform development teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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:

- Data Analysis

- Agile Methodology

- Infrastructure Engineering

Additional Information

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Experience Level

Senior Level