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, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options. This means you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or you can work remotely from most locations within the country listed for this role. 

Why is working in Talent at LinkedIn so unique? We like to say working in Talent at LinkedIn is the most meta-Talent job there is. We hire and develop the people who envision the products that power and change the profession of recruiting and talent development. Our Global Talent Organization’s (GTO) vision is to “empower our people to do the best work of their careers” and help our customers do the same.   

We are seeking a strategic, creative, outcome-oriented Career Architect to help build our careers strategy. As a key member of the Careers team, this individual will report to the Director of Career Development. This is a visible, high-energy role that will work closely with senior executive stakeholders, Talent Development, Human Resource and many other teams on defining initiatives and opportunities to scale career practices. 

As a Career Architect, you will be empowering employees to drive and own their career through new and existing programs, development tools, self-service resources, and technology. You will take the initiative to codify LinkedIn’s career practices to provide more consistency and improve career outcomes for LinkedIn employees across the organization. 

This position is a highly entrepreneurial role where you need to be both strategic and hands-on program management to lead career-focused efforts across the organization and in partnership with many cross-functional teams. Our mission is to ensure every employee has a transformative career experience — this will be a highly gratifying role because you’ll be helping employees achieve their professional goals! 

Responsibilities:  

• Partner with Talent Development partners and other Global Talent Organization COEs to identify approaches to scale career initiatives to foster internal development opportunities  
• Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve employee career outcomes including gathering and synthesizing data to identify opportunities, develop and execute on our career's strategy  
• Drive annual rhythm of the business efforts to drive standard career development practices such as goal setting, career conversations, etc. 
• Participate in customer zero charters by testing and validating our product career features  
• Define any technology requirements that are needed to deliver on our career strategy 
• Set, track and be accountable for KPIs related to career outcomes across the company  
• Serve as the internal subject matter expert for career outcomes by liaising with and influencing multiple stakeholders, such as Product, TD, TA teams 
• Scale operations to meet growth and develop or evolve career resources as needed  
• Collaborate and drive results across critical functions and teams including Talent Development partners, Human Resource Business Partners (HRBPs), Talent Acquisition (TA) and other core teams in service of our goals 

Basic Qualifications:  

• 7+ years of experience in talent development, learning enablement, strategy, consulting, or Human Resources 
• 2+ years of experience building and managing career or talent development programs  

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of program managing and change management on company-wide initiatives  
• 3+ years of developing company-wide career initiatives to drive development of employees 
• Built and led cross-functional teams across one function or an entire company 
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks, and work within deadlines with little supervision  
• Exceptional communicator, collaborator and relationship builder  
• Proven experience with building systems and processes that scale  
• Ability to prepare reports, analyze data, and make data driven decisions with an eye for the big picture (strategic thinking)   
• Experience working with product teams to develop features and tools  
• Are passionate about the career experience of our employees and are excited about helping transform lives through successful career transitions 
• Possess a true entrepreneurial spirit: you’re a builder by nature including being assertive, confident, creative, resourceful and unfazed by ambiguity and change 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $109,000 - $177,000. 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. 

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