Manager, Technical Program Management

LinkedIn • Mountain View, CA

1d • $139,000 - $229,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA. 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. We are seeking a Manager, Technical Program Management to join our Online Infrastructure TPM organization. In this role, you will lead and develop a team of Technical Program Managers while partnering closely with senior technical leaders to define, prioritize, and drive complex infrastructure portfolios. You will establish and evolve program management governance, execution frameworks, and operating rhythms that enable successful delivery across large, cross-functional infrastructure teams. The Online Infrastructure TPM team drives large-scale modernization and migration initiatives across LinkedIn’s advanced infrastructure, including in-house data storage and analytics systems, entity management platforms, query and serving layers, and experimentation platforms. The broader Online Infrastructure organization is responsible for building LinkedIn’s next-generation platforms—spanning application and service delivery, compute, massively scalable storage and replication systems, search, AI/ML platforms, experimentation, and privacy and compliance. In this role, you will work alongside some of the best engineers in the industry, applying deep systems thinking and technical judgment across distributed systems, APIs, and large-scale platform architectures. LinkedIn has pioneered and continues to maintain industry-leading open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka, Pinot, Samza, Azkaban, Venice, DataHub, and others, while also leveraging industry standards like Kubernetes, gRPC, and GraphQL. You will help shape programs that operate at extreme scale while contributing to technology that impacts millions of people globally. At this level, the ideal candidate can clearly articulate complex tradeoffs, dependencies, and interactions that influence program outcomes and coach the team to do the same. You bring a strong balance of people leadership, organizational rigor, and technical depth, and you are effective in driving alignment and execution in highly matrixed environments where authority is not assumed. Success in this role requires demonstrated experience leading teams and large programs, influencing across organizational boundaries, and consistently delivering high-impact results.

Requirements

• B.S./B.A. in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2+ years of people management experience managing technical and/or technical program management teams.
• 3+ years of full time program management experience within an Engineering department.
• Experience managing infrastructure based programs or projects.

Nice To Haves

• Experience Agile methods and practices through multiple teams (Scrum and Kanban).
• Theoretical understanding of managing the lifecycle of large-scale programs and projects.
• Effective communication skills; skilled at cross-functional and cross-organizational communication and attention to detail.
• Experience with software engineering practices and familiarity with coding techniques.
• Ability to traverse both vertically and horizontally in a large organization.
• Ability to traverse tactical and strategic objectives.
• Experience in planning and collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Online Infra TPM team and manage the right mix of projects and programs in the portfolio.
• Manage TPM assignment and allocation and ensure portfolio and project health through appropriate resource allocation, prioritization and focus.
• Develop product strategies, roadmaps and resource plans with leadership.
• Partner with Sr. Director/VP level leadership on project execution and team efficiency.
• Interact one-to-one with individual technical contributors, senior leaders, as well as coaching teams.
• Evaluate, champion and drive adoption of Agile methodologies throughout the team, where applicable.
• Help teams be more efficient, and see the big picture and ensure processes scale appropriately with the company.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, mastery, innovation, and learning.
• Manage and maintain project backlogs and ensure forward momentum with project execution.
• Leads efforts to resolve project conflicts and establish appropriate resolution paths.
• Manage dependencies between multiple projects.
• Mentor individuals in best practices for planning and execution.
• Develop strong partnerships with technology and business leaders.
• Assess and mitigate risk exposure.
• Manage resource planning.

Benefits

• We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels
• LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
• The pay range for this role is $139,000 to $229,000 . Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
• For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
• LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities.
• Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
• LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager