Sr. Manager Strategic Finance - AI Transformation
Software Engineering, Accounting & Finance, Data Science
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 146k-237k / year + Equity
Posted on Jul 9, 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
This role will be based in San Francisco, Mountain View, 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.
We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Manager to partner with leaders across the company on various transformation initiatives, including our AI strategy. In this capacity, you will help define key priorities, initiatives, targets, and resourcing for LinkedIn’s companywide AI strategy and future cross-functional efforts (spanning Finance, Legal, Global Talent, and Comms)
We are seeking out a Strategic Finance leader with strong communication skills and high capacity to build relationships with key stakeholders across different leadership teams (especially our Talent, Legal, Comms, and Finance organizations) and across the strategic finance team. You will be part of the G&A Strategic Finance leadership team. The G&A Strategic Finance team’s mission is to help the teams that run LinkedIn – Global Talent, Finance, Legal, and Comms – to make the right strategic financial decisions.
You will thrive in leading through critical and complicated processes, bringing order and clarity of approach and communications to drive effective decision making. Your ability to fly at multiple altitudes will manifest in effectively advising top leaders in the company, ensuring that the strategy is strong, financially sound, and appropriate for the ever-changing needs of the business.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking
Basic Qualifications
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
This role will be based in San Francisco, Mountain View, 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.
We’re looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Manager to partner with leaders across the company on various transformation initiatives, including our AI strategy. In this capacity, you will help define key priorities, initiatives, targets, and resourcing for LinkedIn’s companywide AI strategy and future cross-functional efforts (spanning Finance, Legal, Global Talent, and Comms)
We are seeking out a Strategic Finance leader with strong communication skills and high capacity to build relationships with key stakeholders across different leadership teams (especially our Talent, Legal, Comms, and Finance organizations) and across the strategic finance team. You will be part of the G&A Strategic Finance leadership team. The G&A Strategic Finance team’s mission is to help the teams that run LinkedIn – Global Talent, Finance, Legal, and Comms – to make the right strategic financial decisions.
You will thrive in leading through critical and complicated processes, bringing order and clarity of approach and communications to drive effective decision making. Your ability to fly at multiple altitudes will manifest in effectively advising top leaders in the company, ensuring that the strategy is strong, financially sound, and appropriate for the ever-changing needs of the business.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Thinking
- Identifies new opportunities for growth and drives strategy development with business partners.
- Leads the validation and execution of complex pressure testing for growth opportunities.
- Operationalizes ideas, develops plans for execution, and identifies ways to automate processes and improve data quality.
- Leads collaborative relationships with other teams and leverages input and feedback to develop deep expertise.
- Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) and necessary context to senior management and key stakeholders to drive action.
- Leverages insights, data, and internal/external trends to develop narratives to influence stakeholders across all levels of the business.
- Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicating points of view to support decision-making on strategic issues.
- Partners with cross-functional stakeholders and provides guidance to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective.
- Provides guidance and expertise to stakeholders by answering a wide variety of complex questions.
- Drives the development of multiple large workstreams, projects, or operational processes.
- Proactively identifies obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend innovative solutions.
- Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating highly complex models and forecasts.
- Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends in meeting targets.
- Leverages expert knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.
- Coaches and trains junior team members executing ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address highly complex business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.
- Partners with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets.
- Models and reinforces the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
- Mentors junior team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners.
- Supports career development goals of team members and helps others junior team members navigate transformation, new opportunities and skill development.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 8 years experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in the technology industry.
- Advanced Excel modeling skills and competency in Word and PowerPoint
- Demonstration of critical thinking – ability to question the output of a financial model and consider options for improvement
- Proactive, results-oriented, with a can-do attitude and strict attention to detail in meeting critical deadlines
- Financial Acumen
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Strategic Thinking
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.