Manager, Program Activation

LinkedIn•San Francisco, CA

8h•$115,000 - $186,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The LinkedIn Go-To-Market Enablement (GTME) team is seeking a Manager, Program Activation to lead a global team responsible for delivering high-quality enablement experiences across our Global Business Organization (GBO). This team serves as the activation engine for GTME, ensuring that evergreen programs and Tier 1 priorities are effectively delivered, adopted, and embedded into seller and manager workflows. This role owns delivery excellence at scale—setting the bar for facilitation craft, ensuring readiness before launch, and driving consistent, high-impact experiences across regions and lines of business. As a global people leader, you will oversee a distributed team of facilitators and own capacity planning, prioritization, and delivery strategy across competing program demands. You will partner closely with LOB and program teams, acting as a field-informed thought partner and quality gate, ensuring programs are designed and deployed for real-world effectiveness—while maintaining clear ownership boundaries across content, delivery, and systems. This role will play a key part in evolving how enablement is delivered—leveraging AI and modern learning approaches to increase scale, personalization, and impact.

Requirements

5+ years in enablement, facilitation, learning delivery, or program management
2+ years of leadership experience
Experience delivering global or multi-regional programs

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated ability to operationalize and prioritize ongoing requirements
Exposure to and comfort with AI-enabled learning approaches
Exceptional facilitation and audience engagement skills
Experience scaling delivery or enablement functions
Strong operational rigor and capacity planning experience
Ability to balance standardization with flexibility
Strong stakeholder management skills
Experience in global, matrixed environments
Proven experience in scaling best practices and influencing without authority
Facilitation Excellence & Experience Design
Program Activation & Scalable Execution
Operational Planning & Capacity Management
Stakeholder Influence & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Data-Driven Decision Making
Global Team Leadership

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end activation of evergreen and Tier 1 enablement programs, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across GBO
Serve as a quality gate for delivery readiness, ensuring clarity of objectives, audience fit, and facilitation strategy before launch
Translate program strategy into scalable activation plans (facilitation, reinforcement, field adoption)
Own delivery operations including scheduling, staffing, capacity planning, and vendor management
Drive prioritization across evergreen and Tier 1 programs, ensuring resource alignment to highest-impact work
Build operational rigor and repeatable systems to enable efficient, scalable delivery
Define and uphold a high bar for facilitation excellence (engagement, credibility, adaptability, business relevance)
Coach and develop a team of generalist facilitators to deliver across diverse programs and audiences
Establish best practices across virtual, in-person, hybrid and at scale delivery, evolving toward modern, AI-enabled learning experiences
Partner with LOB and program teams on activation strategy and delivery readiness
Serve as a field voice with influence, providing insights on engagement, adoption, and impact
Maintain clear ownership boundaries across delivery, content, and systems
Define and track success metrics across delivery (adoption, engagement, impact, facilitator quality)
Use data and feedback to drive continuous improvement
Evolve toward business and behavior change outcomes
Lead and develop a globally distributed facilitation team
Foster a culture of excellence, accountability, and continuous learning
Develop talent across facilitation, operations, and stakeholder management