Technical Program Lead - Recruiting Expertise

This role will be based in the San Francisco office.

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.

We are building an AI product experience that reimagines how companies hire by combining high-quality human expertise with intelligent workflow automation. The mission is to help companies hire faster and more effectively with an AI-driven agent that orchestrates sourcing, screening, outreach, and more under the guidance of a recruiting expert. 

This role will decide the end-to-end design of hiring workflows, and the operational systems that bring them together. You’ll work closely with cross-functional partners across product, engineering, design, data science, and operations to translate real-world hiring workflows into scalable automation. You will also partner with recruiters and with clients to understand needs, validate new workflows, and ensure a high-quality experience for everyone who interacts with the product.

This is a unique opportunity to define the future of hiring—productizing years of recruiting expertise into a world class hiring product.

Responsibilities

• Define and translate hiring workflows, sourcing strategies, messaging patterns, and client-service processes into structured systems that an AI agent can automate or augment.

• Partner with engineering and design to specify decision logic, handoff rules, agent behavior, and automation triggers.

• Monitor product performance, including funnel health, time-to-action, fill velocity, and quality metrics.

• Influence and coach internal stakeholders on playbooks, performance expectations, and operational standards.

• Participate in key client conversations to understand hiring needs and identify workflow gaps or opportunities for improvement.

• Represent in customer interactions and synthesize insights for product development.

• Build scalable processes and SLAs across sourcing, screening, outreach, and submission workflows.

• Review experiments, QA automation outputs, and iterate rapidly to improve quality and efficiency.

• Work with product, engineering, design, and operations teams to bring new workflow automation ideas to life.

• Operate as a full-stack builder using AI-powered tools for analysis, prototyping, and experimentation.

Basic Qualifications

• BS/BA Degree or equivalent experience

• 7+ years of experience in recruiting or talent acquisition in agency setting 

• 3+ years leading a team of recruiters or experience founding/operating a staffing firm

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working directly with engineer teams

• Familiarity with generative AI and agentic tools

• Deep experience with full-cycle recruiting for professional roles (e.g., engineering, product, design, corporate)

• Strong operational and systems-thinking mindset; ability to convert unstructured workflows into repeatable processes

• Excellent client-facing communication and consultative skills

• Proven success designing recruiting playbooks, capacity models, or service quality standards

• Demonstrated ability to launch 0→1 processes or operational models

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $250,000 to $350,000. 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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