Sr Manager, Talent Acquisition

Company Description

Linked In 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 will be based in Sunnyvale, Mountain View or San Francisco.

At Linked In, 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 Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Infrastructure Recruiting Senior Manager reports to the Director of Engineering TA and leads hiring across core infrastructure domains, including AI platform, cloud, data, security, and reliability engineering. This role works closely with Infrastructure Hiring Managers and leaders to translate technical roadmaps into clear, executable hiring plans.

The Senior Manager owns delivery for senior and hard-to-fill roles, sets operating standards for recruiters and sourcers, and directly engages on complex searches requiring deep technical judgment. Success is measured by strong calibration, predictable delivery, and sustained hiring quality as technical bars evolve.

Responsibilities:

Talent Strategy and Stakeholder Management

* Advises business leaders and cross-functional partners using data and insights to influence strategic decision making.

* Leads development of talent strategies by leveraging market data, trends, and insights and oversees team members executing to meet business needs.

* Monitors and tracks team's progress against core delivery metrics to meet hiring demand goals and proactively identifies any gaps, with suggestions on how to mitigate.

* Analyzes patterns in funnel metrics and calibrates with senior leadership to identify trends and insights.

* Oversees and prioritizes suggested opportunities where processes could be improved and maintains ownership of change efforts across the business unit.

* Evaluates and leads adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to optimize team workflows, improves data-driven decision-making, and shares best practices to build team fluency.

* Drives adoption of Customer Zero practices across their function, reinforcing process expectations and ensuring timely feedback and engagement.

* Manages projects or initiatives across the functional strategy.

Leadership

* Provides leadership, mentoring, and guidance to large or multiple teams.

* Enables growth opportunities by providing consistent feedback in 1:1s, OKR reviews, and career development discussions.

* Creates an inclusive team environment by recognizing and valuing diverse perspectives and addressing bias or barriers to collaboration.

* Establishes formal channels for coaching and mentoring opportunities across teams.

* Identifies new opportunities for shared learning across teams regarding the hiring process of the business unit and coaches and enables best practices.

* Drives a culture of curiosity and agility across their org by guiding teams through change, embedding adaptability into processes, and encouraging innovative problem-solving.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

* Minimum 10 years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting, human resources, sourcing, or related field OR Bachelor's Degree in related field AND minimum 7 years of experience in talent acquisition, recruiting, human resources, sourcing, or related field.

* Minimum 5 years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

Preferred Qualifications

* 8+ years of experience using HR Systems.

* 8+ years of experience in a client facing role.

* 8+ years of experience in function-specific recruiting.

Suggested Skills

* AI Fluency

* Change Management

* Communication

* Cross-Team Collaboration

* Data Analysis

* Stakeholder Management

Linked In is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $144,000 to $234,000.

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

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.…