Workplace Experimentation Research Program Manager (Full-Time Position)

  • Full-time
  • Career Track & Grade: IC3/8
  • Department: Finance & Accounting

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to help members of all backgrounds and experiences achieve more in their careers. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Every day our members use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, build skills and gain insights. We believe amazing things happen when we work together in an environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging, and that what matters most in a candidate is having the skills needed to succeed. It inspires us to invest in our talent and support career growth. Join us to challenge yourself with work that matters.

Job Description

At LinkedIn we endeavor to create space that allows people to do the best work of their career. We strive to provide the right options for employees and teams to effectively perform their work. With the introduction of hybrid work, and the increase of remote work, the Workplace Team has developed new workplace solutions to support the needs of our employees. 

To test new solutions and innovative ideas, LinkedIn has developed a global workplace experimentation program that will help drive the performance of our global real estate portfolio and services. This program tests a wide array of products, design layouts, services, etc. across our many office spaces. The Workplace Experimentation Program Manager will be responsible for prioritizing, reviewing and driving the completion of each proposed experiment. They will also be responsible for conducting higher-priority experiments and, in some cases, supporting ad-hoc experiments with staff who are less experienced in research. 

The ideal candidate will have an excellent balance of research, people, and program management skills. Interaction and leadership across functional lines is essential. The candidate will also have a strong background in experimental research, workplace design and employee experience.  

Responsibilities: 

  • Some of the specific responsibilities would include: 
  • Act as the experimentation program owner. Prioritize, schedule, track, and report findings related to all experiments across all global sites. 
  • Provide regular experimentation progress updates to management. 
  • Conduct top priority experiments with support from team.  
  • Support ad-hoc experiments/learning with staff who are less experienced in research.  
  • Create executive summaries and communicate findings of completed experiments to key LinkedIn workplace teams. 
  • Travel up to 25% 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

  • 6+ years experience in research and program management 
  • Bachelor’s Degree in architecture, planning, environmental design, statistics, organizational psychology, related field, or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Analytical and disciplined approach to work, including the ability to plan months in advance and effectively manage time, prioritize tasks, and work within deadlines with little supervision  
  • Proficiency in experimental design 
  • Knowledge and understanding of workplace design  
  • Experience working with cross functional internal/external stakeholders in multiple geographic regions 
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint 
  • A track record of completed research projects with findings that have been shared in academic or industry settings (e.g., conferences, industry white papers, peer-reviewed publications, etc.) 
  • Program management experience  
  • Master’s Degree or Ph.D. in architecture, planning, environmental design, statistics, organizational psychology or other related field  

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