Senior Program Manager - Editorial Program Management Team

LinkedIn•New York, NY

9h•Hybrid

About The Position

LinkedIn is looking for a motivated Senior Program Manager to support the Editorial Program Management team and amplify the value of LinkedIn’s Content Development organization. This team keeps the creative process of the Content Development org moving efficiently by facilitating communication, identifying redundancies, leading prioritization, and providing frameworks to move forward. This new unit has four key objectives: Provide predictability Remove friction Enable focus Inspire growth Our north star is to keep Content Development on track to deliver high-quality programs with efficiency and ease—supporting editors, creator managers, production teams, data scientists, and AI experts, while advocating for member value. We aim to improve how we review work, share work, communicate priorities, and connect people and projects. As part of this team, the Senior Program Manager will focus on supporting high-quality craft methods and processes to maximize Content Development’s value and impact. You will be responsible for creating programs and processes that support developing employees and helping the Content Development org execute initiatives at the highest quality and most impactful level. You will need to communicate effectively with global colleagues of different cultural backgrounds across time zones to be successful. This role inspires the Content Development org and cross-functional partners to grow, support editors and community managers, and achieve metrics and targets.

Requirements

8+ years program or project management in content, product, or ops environments
Bachelor's degree in Business or a related field, or equivalent experience

Nice To Haves

Proven portfolio management across multiple workstreams with complex dependencies
Strong analytics fluency: KPI design, dashboards, and decision-making from data
Executive communication: concise written updates and live readouts
Meeting facilitation, risk/issue management, and clear owner/date tracking
Contractor/vendor management across time zones
Tools: Google Workspace, Slack, Teams
Working knowledge of AI Tooling and ability to stay current with advancements in AI technologies
Excellent project, time, budget, and resource management skills.
Understanding of project management ideologies and editorial processes.
Advanced data analytics knowledge and skills.
Product planning experience.
Experience managing project portfolios with large projects, complex dependencies, and risks.
Skilled in developing, publishing, and presenting executive-level slide decks and reports.
Experience working with budget spreadsheets and driving business cadence for teams (biweekly, monthly, quarterly updates) to increase visibility and accountability.
Experience managing in-person event operations, including logistics, vendor coordination, and attendee engagement for editorial or content-focused events.
Skilled at identifying task structures, relationships, and dependencies.
Ability to facilitate meetings, define requirements, plan projects, negotiate decisions, and manage risks/issues.
Critical thinker and collaborative team player with a strong bias toward business impact.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, confidence presenting to audiences, and strong interpersonal skills.
Ability to adapt in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment.
Light automation a plus (Google Apps Script or similar)
Tools: Airtable, Jira, Confluence, Sheets pivots and formulas
Suggested Skills: Project/Program Management
Analytics fluency
Product Planning

Responsibilities

Set the operating rhythm for the Editorial Program Management team.
Define KPIs and OKRs, baseline performance, and track progress against member value and business outcomes.
Build program overviews and prioritization.
Run project intake and triage, plan monthly releases and ramps, and make tradeoffs explicit.
Drive delivery across cross-functional partners.
Clarify owners and dates, manage dependencies, and retire risks before they escalate.
Turn data into action.
Build lightweight dashboards, run deep dives on trends and defects, and recommend fixes that move a metric.
Create clear executive communication.
Publish concise weekly reads, decision logs, and quarterly narratives that show impact and next bets.
Improve process and cycle time.
Design simple workflows, tighten quality gates, and remove waste so work ships faster with fewer handoffs.
Run effective meetings.
Set agendas, capture decisions and actions, and close loops.
Maintain team knowledge.
Build and curate documentation that makes onboarding and cross-team collaboration easy.
Support leaders.
Prepare materials for leadership forums, provide options and recommendations, and keep the focus on outcomes.
Stay on top of emerging AI technologies and trends, ensuring the team leverages the latest tools and practices to maximize impact.
Manage budgets for programs and projects, including planning, tracking, and reporting to ensure resources are allocated efficiently and business objectives are met.
Lead and oversee in-person event operations, ensuring successful planning, execution, and post-event analysis for editorial and content development initiatives.
Manage Contractor Relationships Across Regions: Oversee day-to-day operations for all contractors supporting the Editorial Program Management team (currently 5 contractors: 3 based in India, 2 based in NYC).
Serve as primary point of contact for onboarding, task allocation, performance tracking, and issue resolution.
Ensure alignment of contractor deliverables with team priorities and timelines, maintaining quality and consistency across global locations.
Partner with leadership to optimize contractor workflows, identify efficiency opportunities, and support budget/resource planning.
Foster strong communication and collaboration between contractors and internal teams to drive seamless execution.