Learning Project Manager

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. 

This role can be based in our New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, or Mountain View Office.

We’re looking for a Learning Project Manager to be the operational nerve center for instructional design and development. You will build the systems, processes, and rhythms that keep our learning programs on track—from intake to launch—and partner across vendor instructional design teams and internal subject matter experts to ship high‑quality content on time. You’ll stand up the operating model from the ground up (intake, planning, execution, QA, release, maintenance), set benchmarks like time‑to‑delivery, and drive continuous improvement and efficiency across the content lifecycle.

You’ll build the operating backbone that powers how we deliver learning—bringing clarity, speed, and quality to every release. Your systems and processes will accelerate the team’s impact and help marketers worldwide earn credentials that advance their careers.

Responsibilities:

• Stand up an end‑to‑end operating system for learning programs (intake → scope → plan → design → develop → QA → launch → maintain).
• Own the release calendar for learning programs and assets; coordinate dependencies and handoffs across teams and channels.
• Create and maintain a single source of truth for roadmaps, status, RACI/DACI, risks, decisions, and milestones.
• Coordinate vendor instructional design teams: define SOWs/SLAs, manage checkpoints, track deliverables, and ensure acceptance criteria are met.
• Partner with internal SMEs and Curriculum Managers to clarify objectives, gather inputs, schedule reviews, and unblock work.
• Design and iterate intake forms, briefs, templates, and standard work for project plans and status reporting.
• Implement pragmatic workflows and automations using Jira and Airtable; support adoption of complementary tools (e.g., Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet).
• Establish operational benchmarks (cycle time by asset type, on‑time launch %, revision/defect rate, throughput) and publish regular readouts.
• Drive quality and readiness: ensure assets meet accessibility, brand, and technical standards; orchestrate QA, pilots, and sign‑off.
• Run weekly operating reviews across Curriculum, Live Training, Platform/LMS, PMM, and regional partners; surface risks with clear options and trade‑offs.

Basic Qualifications

• BA/BA Degree or equivalent experience 
• 5+ years of project/program management experience in learning, enablement, content production, or similar multi‑stakeholder environments.
• 3+ years experience configuring Jira and Airtable (schemas, fields, forms, automation, reporting).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with project frameworks (intake forms, RACI/DACI, playbooks, SLAs) and attention to detail.
• 1+ years of expereince Recognized Project Management Industry Credential, e.g., PMI 
• Familiarity with LMS/LRS workflows and connecting projects to analytics dashboards.
• Background in instructional design or content production processes and QA practices.
• Track record improving cycle time, on‑time delivery, and quality through process/tooling changes.
• Proficiency with one or more additional PM suites (e.g., Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet).
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate vendors and internal SMEs across time zones to deliver on schedule.

Suggested Skills: 

• Operational Rigor
• Workflow Design
• Quality Management
• Stakeholder Management

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $93,000 to $152,000.

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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