Staff Technical Program Manager

LinkedIn•Mountain View, CA

11d•$139,000 - $229,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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. This role will be based in Mountain View, CA. Productivity Engineering is a team at LinkedIn that builds products that power LinkedIn’s business. We drive technology vision, architecture, and design systems that deliver impact across the enterprise. We are seeking a Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to lead complex technical programs for LinkedIn’s Go-To-Market organization. This role requires strong technical depth, systems thinking, and the ability to operate at both strategic and execution levels. You will partner with Engineering, Business stakeholders, Product, Legal, Security and external vendors to deliver scalable solutions that create a best-in-class experience for Sellers, Customer Success, Global Support and LinkedIn’s members and customers in over 200 countries. As a Staff Technical Program Manager, you will drive programs across 3rd Party Tools and Go-To-Market platforms that drive innovation, scalability, and operational excellence across the organization. You will be expected to leverage AI-enabled tools, and support the delivery of scalable AI-powered capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a solid track record of successfully delivering large-scale technical programs and demonstrating technical leadership. This includes strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to align cross functional teams and vendors to deliver measurable outcomes. Strong business acumen , product intuition, and technical depth are required to enable you to engage meaningfully with product and engineering teams.. Analytical rigor, structured problem-solving, and comfort operating in ambiguity are essential. Experience contributing to or leading the development and productionization of AI-enabled products or capabilities is highly valued.

Requirements

B.S./B.A. Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years professional experience in an engineering or technical team, managing technical programs/projects
Experience with AI systems and Generative AI

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI platforms such as Azure AI, AWS Agentic AI, or proprietary ML stacks
Understanding of AI technologies including LLMs, agentic workflows, model evaluation frameworks, and cloud-based AI infrastructure
Experience managing company wide, large scale, high impact programs
Direct work experience in a technical project management capacity to drive large technical initiatives including all aspects of process development and execution.
Knowledge of complex technical ecosystems and adequate technical depth
Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
Ability to quickly adapt to faster pace, shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
Vendor Management
GenAI
Agentic Flows
Agentic Surfaces
Cross Functional Collaboration
Technical Program Management

Responsibilities

Own technical programs from inception to delivery.
Support multiple cross-functional teams (including external vendors) to deliver their objectives in fast-paced and complex programs and projects
Develop strong partnerships with Business, Engineering and Product leaders to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives
Build expertise around subject matter to be able to articulate technical details and requirements to various teams involved.
Define metrics and indicators for Program health.
Navigate through ambiguity and solve complex problems.
Drive data informed decisions to steer the program and strategy.
Lead Planning, execution and on-time delivery of cross-functional initiatives.
Partner with all levels of management on portfolio execution and team efficiency.
Drive quarterly roadmap and resource planning activities and deliverables.
Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths
Report on project status or portfolio roadmap, risks, issues and mitigation plans
Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.
Coach and mentor others in the best practices of modern planning and execution.
Change champion and catalyst for driving innovation and leveraging AI to automate day to day TPM processes.