Senior Technical Program Manager

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Senior Technical Program Manager

Mountain View, CA (3 days office is a must)

Rate: DOE

Suggested Skills

• Program Product Management
• Infrastructure platform Development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Strategic Road mapping
  
  

Description

Looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to work within LinkedIn''s Core Infrastructure program management team. The right candidate will have demonstrated solid leadership in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. This candidate is expected to perform using best practices for the execution of our Infrastructure projects as well as initiating, planning, and executing intermediate-to-large-scale, cross-functional programs.

The ideal candidate will have an excellent balance of people, organizational, and technical skills, and can execute and deliver successfully in situations where authority is not a given. Interaction and leadership across functional lines is essential.

Engineering Team, this TPM will support:

We are looking for a Sr.TPM with Infra stack experience, specifically in the areas of streams (Pub Sub), storage, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities:

• Provide clarity on product/program objectives, ensuring that roles and responsibilities are well understood and address any conflict promptly with minimal direction and assistance from management.
• Interact with program sponsors and change agents to identify scope, requirements, and manage projects throughout the entirety of the project lifecycle.
• Facilitate and drive large cross-functional projects, serve the needs of multiple stakeholders within a complex, multi-faceted organization, and manage that strategy through to completion.
• Apply formal change management practices that ensure that programs are baselined at kickoff and all changes are thoroughly reviewed for justification, impact on the program, and have received appropriate approvals.
• Anticipate program risks and issues and work to provide resolutions that ensure that stakeholder expectations are set appropriately.
• Effectively communicate information to diverse audiences, including translating subject matter terminology into clear business terms and program relevance.
• Establish and manage end-to-end processes with various stakeholders in collecting, evaluating, and fulfilling their requirements.
• Demonstrate data analysis expertise to develop and communicate meaningful insights, define metrics, and make recommendations on key infrastructure scaling initiatives.
• Apply business acumen to formulate practical and effective program management approaches to identify optimization opportunities, influence business partners, and drive effective decision-making.
• 7 years of experience in Technical Program and Product management, including feature development, roadmap management, and experience in Agile Methods in Infra product/platform development teams.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7 years of technical leadership with a track record of operating independently, demonstrating creativity, being detail-oriented, and delivering results in a highly organized manner.
• Strong technical acumen, ability to learn new technologies quickly.
• Demonstrated understanding of technology-based product lifecycle management including development launch and management phases and primary roles/responsibilities and deliverables of key organizational functions.
• Exceptional analytic skills to translate requirements and designs into successful action plans.
• Experience leading dynamic programs and projects with cross-functional matrixed resources working in a fast-paced collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders set direction and approach mobilize and motivate teams and execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• Strong practical understanding of managing the life-cycle of large-scale programs
• Proven problem-solving skills to anticipate the risks of non-performance and incorporate prevention and remediation measures within the implementation plan.
• Proven ability to work collaboratively across different functions and optimally influence senior business partners.