Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Agentic AI

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness programs

Generous time off

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking a Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager for Agentic AI to lead cross‑functional, large‑scale AI programs.

The role partners with product and engineering to drive ambitious initiatives across the company, including shaping agentic AI capabilities and evolving processes in an ambiguous environment. This hybrid role requires strong leadership, technical depth, and superb communication to coordinate across teams and levels, delivering impactful results while balancing long‑term

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Technical Program Management.
• B.S./B.A. degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience managing AI programs.
• Current or past experience working in start-ups.
• Past software engineering experience.
• Experience managing large AI programs and leading multiple TPMs.
• Technical program management experience in the tech industry.
• Significant experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams, and individual contributors.
• Ability to work in very ambiguous environments.
• Knowledge of machine learning applications and platforms, Azure would be a big plus.
• Experience on building foundational models in a large scale environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive key cross functional, technical AI initiatives across LinkedIn.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, empower, build strategic relationships and align people across a broad variety of job functions through relationships.
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders and build the necessary subject matter expertise.
• Take ambiguous technical problems, formulate plans and drive teams to deliver successful results.
• Understand the long term implications of architectural and technical changes, while not losing focus on the short term deliverables.
• Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths.
• Continuously improve and scale the organization. Improve processes where needed, while being cognizant of not slowing down engineering teams.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.
• Analytical and truth seeking. Ability to understand sophisticated concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high emotional intelligence.
• Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver.
• Experience with or solid understanding of end‑to‑end agile software development.
• Coach and mentor others on the team.

Job description

Sr. Staff Technical Program Manager, Agentic AI

• Full-time
• Workplace Type: Hybrid

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.

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.

***There is flexibility with the leveling***

LinkedIn is embarking on a groundbreaking initiative to develop agentic models. We are building advanced AI agents that exhibit reasoning, planning, and interaction capabilities. These agents will power new features and experiences that anticipate professionals' needs, automate complex tasks, and provide personalized guidance, ultimately shaping the future of work.

The Technical Program Manager (level is TBD ) will have the opportunity to drive cutting‑edge AI agentic programs. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams. The LinkedIn TPM role is highly diversified and includes initiating, planning and executing intermediate to large scale, cross‑functional and company‑wide programs.

Are you passionate about AI at scale? Do you enjoy helping internal and external customers solve complex problems? The successful candidate will be technically strong, have a solid track record of program management leading large scale AI programs, possess excellent communication skills, have experience working with a lot of ambiguity and wearing several hats, will have worked with a large number of customers to drive adoption, and will have demonstrated excellent leadership, along with superior organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive key cross functional, technical AI initiatives across LinkedIn.
• Ability to influence senior leaders, empower, build strategic relationships and align people across a broad variety of job functions through relationships.
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering and product management leaders and build the necessary subject matter expertise.
• Take ambiguous technical problems, formulate plans and drive teams to deliver successful results.
• Understand the long term implications of architectural and technical changes, while not losing focus on the short term deliverables.
• Lead efforts to identify risks, resolve key project conflicts, and establish appropriate resolution paths.
• Continuously improve and scale the organization. Improve processes where needed, while being cognizant of not slowing down engineering teams.
• Create a collaborative work environment that fosters shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.
• Analytical and truth seeking. Ability to understand sophisticated concepts and make reasoned decisions objectively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including high emotional intelligence.
• Fill in gaps across roles and functions as needed, performing as an adaptive problem solver.
• Experience with or solid understanding of end‑to‑end agile software development.
• Coach and mentor others on the team.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Technical Program Management
• B.S./B.A. degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience managing AI programs

Preferred Qualifications

• Current or past experience working in start‑ups
• Past software engineering experience
• Experience managing large AI programs and leading multiple TPMs.
• Technical program management experience in the tech industry.
• Significant experience working with software engineering leadership, technical teams, and individual contributors.
• Ability to work in very ambiguous environments
• Passion about being an indispensable part of a great product.
• Ability to communicate authoritatively at a sufficient technical depth.
• Passionate about learning new concepts and technologies.
• Knowledge of machine learning applications and platforms, Azure would be a big plus
• Experience on building foundational models in a large scale environment.

Suggested Skills

• Technical Program Management
• Technical leadership
• AI programs
• Software Engineering

You will Benefit from our Culture

We strongly believe in the well‑being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels.

Pay Range

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $171,000 - $280,000. 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.

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.

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• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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