Sr Manager, Talent Acquisition Full Time NEW

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Job Description

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, Mountain View or San Francisco.

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.

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

LinkedIn 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 https{{:}}//careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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. 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.

LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.

Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to{{:}}

• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn’s legal duty to furnish information.

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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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