Program Manager, Economic Graph Research Institute
Operations
San Francisco, CA, USA
USD 126k-204k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 22, 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 can be based in New York City, San Francisco, 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 are looking for a dynamic and collaborative individual to join the Economic Graph Research Institute (EGRI) as the Program Manager for our team. The Economic Graph Research Institute is a multi-disciplinary group of Economists and Data Scientists that applies economic research and data science to LinkedIn’s data to evaluate labor market trends, AI & work, and economic opportunity . The team works with a multitude of internal and external partners to bring to life data insights, storytelling and thought leadership. The ability to work as part of a team that influences the world's leading policymakers and business leaders makes this a once-in-a-career opportunity.
In this role you will work closely with EGRI team members to establish key operating metrics, processes and reporting that enable the team to be effective at greater scale. You will be the primary architect, implementer, and manager of many of the team’s core working processes, including communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. You will partner closely with EG leadership to guide the team through quarterly objective setting and annual planning.
This role will require an understanding of LinkedIn’s business and vision as well as economic and data science concepts; an ability to connect dots across internal partners such as the Public Policy, Sales, Marketing, and Communications teams; and program management skills to orchestrate projects and narratives for internal and external stakeholders. Your work will have high visibility from leadership across the company.
Responsibilities
Basic Qualifications
The pay range for this role is $126,000 - $204,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications, and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional 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 can be based in New York City, San Francisco, 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 are looking for a dynamic and collaborative individual to join the Economic Graph Research Institute (EGRI) as the Program Manager for our team. The Economic Graph Research Institute is a multi-disciplinary group of Economists and Data Scientists that applies economic research and data science to LinkedIn’s data to evaluate labor market trends, AI & work, and economic opportunity . The team works with a multitude of internal and external partners to bring to life data insights, storytelling and thought leadership. The ability to work as part of a team that influences the world's leading policymakers and business leaders makes this a once-in-a-career opportunity.
In this role you will work closely with EGRI team members to establish key operating metrics, processes and reporting that enable the team to be effective at greater scale. You will be the primary architect, implementer, and manager of many of the team’s core working processes, including communications, knowledge sharing, and collaboration. You will partner closely with EG leadership to guide the team through quarterly objective setting and annual planning.
This role will require an understanding of LinkedIn’s business and vision as well as economic and data science concepts; an ability to connect dots across internal partners such as the Public Policy, Sales, Marketing, and Communications teams; and program management skills to orchestrate projects and narratives for internal and external stakeholders. Your work will have high visibility from leadership across the company.
Responsibilities
- Establish key operating metrics, processes and reporting for the cross-functional EGRI team.
- Establish and run day to day operations for the team, including recurring meetings, periodic reporting, and team communications.
- Document team functions and workflows in a way that is easily accessible and aligned with LinkedIn best practices.
- Establish regular communication channels and practices (meetings and asynchronous collaboration) that enable knowledge sharing across and outside the EGRI team.
- Socialize EGRI data foundations, tools, and publications to existing and new stakeholders within the company.
- Guide the team through biannual objective setting and annual planning activities in close coordination with EGRI leadership.
- Partner with Executive Assistant and Chief of Staff to support the Chief Economist
Basic Qualifications
- 4+ years of experience in a related operating role (project or program management) managing technical programs/projects
- 3+ years of experience interpreting, analyzing, and communicating data and/or economic insights.
- 4+ years of experience managing day-to-day operations for a cross-functional team.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Math, Computer Science, Economics, Analytics, Engineering or a related field, OR equivalent experience
- SQL coding skills are a strong plus
- Experience in strategy consulting or comparable internal strategy role where problem solving, structured decision-making and executive communications were highly important.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Able to present complex ideas simply, directly, and elicit meaningful feedback.
- Demonstrated ability to frame and solve problems in an objective way, to use data to inform the perspective, and to lead others through efficient and structured methods of decision-making.
- Experience on a mission-driven team with multiple stakeholders with complex social and business objectives
- Experience managing multiple major and concurrent projects/programs executed through multiple geographic locations
- Strategic Thinking
- Project Management or Program Management
- Economics, Econometrics or Data Analysis
- SQL
The pay range for this role is $126,000 - $204,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications, and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional 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.