Sr Program Manager
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Responsibilities
- Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Build strong, trust-based relationships with India, APAC, and global leaders, workstream owners, cross-functional partners, and executive stakeholders.
- Own and maintain the integrated new product program plan across pilot phases, commercialization, and general availability readiness, with clear milestones, decision points, dependencies, owners, and success measures.
- Design and operate effective program governance, including cross-functional program-team forums that surface system-level issues and executive steering forums that resolve risks, dependencies, blockers, and trade-offs.
- Maintain a clear view of risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and opportunities; develop practical recommendations; and drive timely escalation and resolution, driving the communications cadence, coordinating dependencies across workstreams, and ensuring readiness across pilot customers.
- Ensure workstreams are appropriately scoped and resourced, with clear decision rights, accountable owners, and engaged working-team members.
- Own updates to senior stakeholders, including progress against milestones, highlights and lowlights, key risks, and actions required.
- Translate commercial model and customer pilot learnings into coordinated readiness plans for product scalability, customer experience, sales execution, operational processes, reporting, and launch communications.
- Over time, extend program management support to other strategic LinkedIn Sales Solutions priorities.
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years of industry experience in the technology or internet sector, or in management consulting.
- BA or BS degree.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience managing complex programs or projects across multiple cross-functional teams.
- Experience working in a global role and proven ability to work effectively in a complex, global, matrixed organization across functions, geographies, and time zones.
- Experience leading a complex product commercialization, go-to-market, or launch-readiness program from pilot through general availability.
- Experience operating customer-facing pilots, including milestone tracking, escalation management, dependency coordination, and readiness planning.
- Experience partnering with Director+ level and executive stakeholders and influencing decisions without direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complexity into clear executive updates, decisions, and recommendations.
- Ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, create structure, and maintain momentum with limited supervision.
- Experience working with or within Sales, Customer Success, Media, SaaS, or other go-to-market organizations.
- Strong attention to detail and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple simultaneous workstreams in a high-growth, performance-focused environment.
- Experience with organizational change management is a plus.
- MBA, advanced degree, or PMP certification is a plus.
Suggested Skills
- Program and project management
- Executive communication
- Stakeholder management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Governance, risk, and dependency management
- Problem solving
- Go-to-market and launch readiness
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