Staff Design Program Manager

8+ years in design program management, design operations, design management, product management, or other relevant experience.

Experienced understanding of the end-to-end product design process, including discovery, UXR, prototyping, testing, and implementation.

Experience working with a large internal design team, including product design, user research, content design, design operations.

Experience coaching peers and supporting design culture and hiring efforts.

Comfort leveraging AI-powered tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, design and productivity tools) to streamline workflows, improve clarity, and increase program efficiency.

The pay range for this role is $139,000 to $229,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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As a Staff Design Program Manager (DPM), you will join the Premium Design Team—one of LinkedIn’s fastest-growing and most strategic businesses.

Premium is a member-first subscription and a top company priority, delivering meaningful value to professionals worldwide.

Embedded within the Consumer Product team, you will drive large-scale, complex programs in a highly horizontal, matrixed environment.

Premium sits at the center of LinkedIn’s ecosystem, requiring deep partnership across all pillar teams.

You will influence without authority, align senior cross-functional leaders, and bring clarity to ambiguous, multi-team problem spaces to deliver cohesive, end-to-end member experiences.

You will establish scalable operating models, drive executive-ready narratives, proactively manage cross-pillar dependencies, and balance member impact, technical feasibility, and business outcomes.

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.