Job Description
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together. This role will be based in Mountain View or Sunnyvale.
As a Technical Services Manager in the Product Quality organization, you will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of product health and quality for our members and customers. You will use your big data analysis skills to monitor product performance from multiple sources, prioritize and resolve member reported issues, and partner with Engineering and Product Management to implement changes and improvements.
You will proactively identify production issues before they affect our members, and use your software debugging skills to triage and resolve complex issues that are escalated to you. You will also drive strategic initiatives to improve product quality, looking at key metrics such as the bug introduction rate, bug backlog, and SLA performance. You will play an essential role in product launches and sunsets, ensuring readiness from a product quality perspective and providing supporting technical services.
You will be a leader and an influencer in the Product Quality organization, leading team projects, defining improvements, and challenging ideas respectfully. You will also communicate effectively with diverse groups of technical and non-technical stakeholders, reporting on escalation trends, top issues, and improvement opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute a strategic and tactical roadmap to proactively identify and prevent production issues
- Own the product quality of a large product and feature set, or multiple products, and influence business decisions and key projects accordingly
- Monitor and analyze key metrics related to product quality and drive initiatives to achieve and improve related goals
- Review, investigate, and resolve complex technical member cases within the target SLAs
- Lead, organize and/or participate in cross team discussions, bringing in diverse perspectives and ensuring ideas are challenged respectfully
- Build, monitor and analyze reporting and dashboards to quickly identify issues and take corrective action when needed
- Partner with Product & Engineering stakeholders to drive quality improvement initiatives and deliver the best member experience possible
- Report on escalation trends, top issues, and improvement opportunities to key stakeholders
- Drive post mortems to identify process gaps and take corrective actions to prevent recurrences of similar issues
- Drive overall support readiness for new products and features
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications :
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical fields
- 6+ years of experience in Technical Support, Quality Assurance, Product Operations, Product Management or related field
- Professional experience working with databases like SQL, Oracle or similar
- Professional experience with HTML and/or JavaScript
- Professional experience with Unix command line and/or Unix shell scripting
- Professional experience with APIs or other web development technologies
- Ability to interact with diverse groups of technical and non-technical people
- Analytical skills, including the ability to pull data directly, analyze large data sets, and identify business insights from data
Preferred Qualifications :
- Oral and written communication skills and be able to effectively communicate complex subjects to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels
- Strong results-orientation and direct experience in utilizing data to identify critical trends
- Professional experience with distributed systems development
- Professional experience with web or mobile applications development
- Programming skills in Java or Python
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and noSQL
- Working knowledge of other business analytics tools (e.g., Tableau and Business Objects)
- Familiarity with issue management systems such as JIRA and Bugzilla
- Familiarity with CRM systems such as Salesforce, Zendesk and Microsoft Dynamics
Suggested skills:
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $103,000 to $170,000. 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.