Sr. Program Manager, Comms + Social Impact
Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA · Sunnyvale, CA, USA · California, USA · United States
USD 134k-218k / year
Posted on Jun 11, 2025
Company Description
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.
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. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.
The Program Manager will drive some of the most critical, complex, and high-impact programs across the Comms + Social Impact (C+SI) organization. This role blends strategic initiative leadership with operational oversight, serving as a key partner to the C+SI Chief of Staff and leadership team. From standing up new cross-functional initiatives to optimizing the systems that keep the org running, this person will operate as a connective tissue across leadership, enabling clarity, alignment, and execution.
This role requires a strong strategic operator who excels at navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and driving progress across multiple, often undefined, workstreams. You’ll bring a sharp eye for the big picture while having the drive to dig into the weeds when needed—equally comfortable advising senior leaders on complex decisions and rolling up your sleeves to unblock execution. You will be a thought partner on special projects (60%) and a steward of organizational operations (40%), ensuring we’re not just running the business—but improving it.
Key Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
The pay range for this role is $134,000 to $218,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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.
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. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.
The Program Manager will drive some of the most critical, complex, and high-impact programs across the Comms + Social Impact (C+SI) organization. This role blends strategic initiative leadership with operational oversight, serving as a key partner to the C+SI Chief of Staff and leadership team. From standing up new cross-functional initiatives to optimizing the systems that keep the org running, this person will operate as a connective tissue across leadership, enabling clarity, alignment, and execution.
This role requires a strong strategic operator who excels at navigating ambiguity, managing competing priorities, and driving progress across multiple, often undefined, workstreams. You’ll bring a sharp eye for the big picture while having the drive to dig into the weeds when needed—equally comfortable advising senior leaders on complex decisions and rolling up your sleeves to unblock execution. You will be a thought partner on special projects (60%) and a steward of organizational operations (40%), ensuring we’re not just running the business—but improving it.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner directly with the C+SI Chief of Staff and leadership to shape and deliver the org’s most critical priorities—including strategic planning, budget and FP&A operations, sourcing and vendor partnerships, and talent development efforts.
- Lead end-to-end development and execution of cross-functional special projects that have high visibility and executive sponsorship, with clear outcomes and measurable impact.
- Serve as a strategic advisor, applying structure and rigor to ambiguous challenges while bringing insights that accelerate decision-making and delivery.
- Build durable operational systems that scale with the organization—including goal-setting rhythms, business reviews, headcount planning, and budget tracking.
- Foster strong cross-functional relationships and influence without authority across all levels of the company—keeping teams aligned, unblocking progress, and building shared ownership.
- Identify risks and opportunities early, proactively propose solutions, and lead problem-solving efforts that drive results.
Basic Qualifications:
- 12+ years of experience in program management, business operations, or similar strategic functions.
- BA/BS degree or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to drive strategic initiatives from concept through execution in partnership with senior leadership.
- Strong executive presence, with the ability to advise, influence, and align cross-functional partners at all levels.
- Highly structured and analytical thinker who thrives in ambiguity and brings order to chaos.
- Excellent project management and prioritization skills, with a track record of delivering results across multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, able to create clarity and inspire action across audiences.
- Experience designing and running org-wide planning processes (OKRs, strategic planning cycles, budget reviews, etc.).
- Comfortable with autonomy, and confident in navigating decisions independently when needed.
- Deep curiosity, EQ, and a collaborative mindset—you seek to understand, listen well, and earn trust quickly
- A sense of humor and resilience under pressure—you bring calm and clarity to high-stakes moments.
- Strategic Planning & Execution
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Change Management
- Operational Excellence
- Executive Stakeholder Management
The pay range for this role is $134,000 to $218,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.