Director, Technical Program Management (Infra)
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Job Description
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.
LinkedIn is looking for a Director, Technical Program Management to partner with the Engineering Systems (Dev Infra, Reliability) and InfoSec TPM teams. The right candidate will have demonstrated solid leadership in leading and managing teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes. This candidate is expected to manage a group of Technical Program Managers, partner with key Technical Leaders to define, prioritize and drive project portfolios and establish the right project management governance practices and frameworks with the Engineering teams.
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.
The right candidate will have demonstrated solid leadership in leading teams and programs to deliver successful outcomes.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Own delivery OKRs for all Engineering Systems and InfoSec teams, ensuring programs are executed on schedule, meet quality and reliability standards, and achieve committed outcome
• Define, track, and report program-level OKRs and KPIs (e.g., delivery predictability, milestone health, risk burn-down, dependency management) to ensure transparency and accountability across Engineering Systems (Dev Infra, Reliability) and InfoSec teams
• Build, hire, mentor, and lead a high-performing TPM organization, with clear people OKRs focused on capability growth, leadership development, and retention
• Drive execution excellence by establishing operating mechanisms (planning cadences, reviews, escalation paths, and postmortems) that improve delivery velocity and execution efficiency
• Align engineering, product, research, and business leaders around shared OKRs to ensure Infra and InfroSec initiatives translate into measurable business and platform impact
Requirements
Department: Engineering
Experience Level: Director