Senior Associate, Global Strategic Initiatives

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Job Description

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

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 is searching for a Senior Associate, Global Strategic Initiatives to assist with various new and existing programs managed by the Strategic Planning & Initiatives team for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. The Senior Associate will leverage their program management experience, superior communication, relationship building skills, and analytical abilities to provide timely solutions to partners, and successful program execution / leadership.

Candidates hoping to fill this role must be proactive, collaborative, solution-oriented and comfortable managing multiple cross-functional relationships and projects concurrently.

Responsibilities:

Manage global, complex workstreams in programs with multiple stakeholders

Define success metrics of program and measure results

Deploy best in class project/program management (e.g. managing timelines, tracking and communicating progress, setting expectations with stakeholders, issue resolution)

Be an effective agent of change by developing a change management framework on what we communicate, how we train teams and support talent changes

Identify and appropriately escalate risks which could jeopardize the successful rollout and recommend options for resolution

Provide a regular cadence of updates to the leadership team on progress and plan to mitigate risk

Develop mitigations and solutions with various stakeholders to ensure successful program outcomes

Leverage program management framework to drive consistent, best-in-class program management

Create strong collaborative partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders

Act like an owner and have an impact outside of your core functions by demonstrating leadership, providing leverage and producing results that will help effectively scale

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

4+ years of experience in program/project management, management consulting, sales, strategy or operations

Experience in MS Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel)

BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines with little supervision

Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments

Excellent collaboration, influence, organizational, and program management skills

Ability to define ambiguous problems and drive towards outcomes

Ability to present data in an effective, actionable manner and learn new software quickly

Ability to think strategically with a proven track record of providing consultative and data driven solutions

Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams

Experience working with CRM, sales and data visualization tools

Knowledge of SQL or other programming languages

Experience working in the digital advertising or marketing industry

PMP or Six-Sigma Certified

LinkedIn for Marketing certifications completed

Suggested Skills:

Program/Project Management

Change/Stakeholder Management

Communication

Design Thinking

Prioritization

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $105,000 to $170,000. 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

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