Sr Design Program Manager, Creative Systems

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 will be based in New York, Sunnyvale or San Francisco.

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’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our global Product Design team advances this vision through quality, inclusive design. We're passionate about designing an equal, fair, and accessible platform that’s modern, engaging, and responsible.

Our products help professionals all over the world stay connected, informed, and productive. The LinkedIn ecosystem is about more than just job hunting. We help create and support active communities, while making sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting more successful and delightful.

We’re seeking a Sr. Design Program Manager to drive forum experiences and design programs that inspire, connect, and elevate Design at LinkedIn. You'll join Community Operations, a team focused on upleveling craft, and enhancing the employee experience within Design.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with designers and researchers in delivering work in a way that builds trust with engineering, product management and executives.
• Build, manage, and/or identify operational improvements to creative workflows in order to deliver high-quality products and features through the project lifecycle while delivering on goals and objectives and user experience value.
• Lead or collaborate with Design org leadership in key project decision-making, including: requirements gathering, scheduling, resource allocation, and coordination of teams and approval processes.
• Help stakeholders across adjacent business lines define opportunities to closer integrate LinkedIn products.
• Partner with TPM, Product Managers, Design Managers, and Researchers to maintain the team’s program schedule that consolidates individual project track plans, reflects cross-track dependencies, and eliminates redundancies among the tracks.
• Manage program risks and drive issue resolution as it relates to meeting the overall schedule and quality commitments.
• Partner with your team’s leads to develop the strategic vision and help build an innovative, world-class roadmap of features and services that support our vision and values.
• Work with stakeholders throughout the org to help define business needs, requirements, investment priorities and product features.
• Direct the evolution of the team’s process through continuous risk and optimization assessments.
• Identify team needs with regards to process, tools, documentation, etc., and implement or drive required changes to make sure designers and researchers are working at optimum efficiency.
• Advocate that the member’s voice is heard in all product and user experience processes.
• Represent and advocate for the team’s priorities during the development process, including release planning, user story grooming and backlog management.
• For high visibility projects, own schedules and task assignments for your team of designers - from large phases through to detailed tasks.
• Clearly identify, explain, and communicate progress, status, expectations, dependencies and risks to executives, business stakeholders and team members.
• Use knowledge, creativity, and company practices and priorities to obtain solutions to complex problems.
• Facilitate team onboarding for new hires and rotations.
• Own and manage team documentation, including team sites, status, and other centralized resources.
• Proactively contribute best practices, tips, and templates to shared Design org resources.
• 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 5 years in design program management, design operations, design management, product management, HR, or other relevant experience.
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading programs
• Strong facilitation, and project management skills
• Knowledge and interest in working in design and user experience
• Ability to collaborate, create relationships, and communicate with various stakeholders including design leadership team, business, external vendors, and HR leaders
• Excellent communication, analytical, and problem solving skills
• Experience working with budget and spreadsheets
• Ability to logically and efficiently structure ambiguous problems
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision
• Ability to handle ambiguity, set goals and effectively deliver to them if project plans shift and need to adapt.
  
  
  

Suggested Skills:

• Problem Solving
• Collaboration
• Knowledge about the design industry and current trends
  
  
  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $112,000 - $183,000. 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

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.

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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
  
  
  

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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