Associate Production Project Manager

Company Description

LinkedIn 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 Carpinteria, CA.

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.

The Associate Production Project Manager owns the scheduling, coordination, and collaboration with our vendors and contractors for the LinkedIn Learning libraries. As a collaborative, results-driven communicator, the Associate Production Project Manager partners with production teams and vendors to ensure production priorities and outcomes are met on time and in scope. This position will report to the Production Project Management manager.

Responsibilities

• Autonomously manages multiple external resources by scheduling and assigning projects to individual contractors/vendors, aligning to internal production priorities.

• Strategically align external resources by tracking resource utilization and capacity, and proactively communicating changes with impacted stakeholders.

• Own supplier contracts, invoices, and budgets to help forecast future spending and costs of outsourcing work.

• Act as an advisor to content production teams to help identify additional areas of support that can be provided by the Production Project Management team.

• Manage and Coordinate contractor inventories for video editing, audio engineering, technical writing, voiceover, and graphics.

• Monitor and track against the Post-Production Pro Services budgets.

• Prepare and upload material to contractors and vendors storage folders.

• Build out new workflows & tools that can scale with the business.

• Create documentation that details course objective deliverables and delivery deadlines for contract agreements.

• Communicate clearly with key stakeholders (Producers, Audio Engineers, and Graphic Designers) to ensure successful handoffs throughout the post-production process.

• Acts as a mediator, facilitator, and point of contact between contractors/vendors and the internal Post-Production team.

• Maintain quality of-and continuity across-multiple projects while meeting deadlines.

• Collect qualitative metrics to ensure deliverables from external partners meet defined expectations of quality.

• Track and coordinate the handoff of deliverables to cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Evaluate productivity and collect data for quarterly performance reports for contractors/vendors.

• Proactively identify and communicate potential project risks to stakeholders

• Identify, develop, and implement new and unique ways to improve workflow operations and process improvements as needed.

• Anticipate, identify, and communicate potential roadblocks and risks. Work with stakeholders across partner teams to remove roadblocks and reduce risk.

• Ensure data accuracy through all stages of the course production/project workflow.

• Approach change with agility and positivity.

• Identify, review, and drive the onboarding process for potential new vendors/independent contractors.

• Build, manage, and improve vendor workflows of multiple languages & departments.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience managing complex schedules and projects

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent project management skills with a solid foundation of project management phases and objectives

• An understanding of production, post-production, scheduling, and digital media

• Self-motivated, skilled, and proactive communicator and problem solver

• Ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Advanced skills using Excel, Mac OS, Windows, Google Apps

• Ability to quickly learn new concepts or domains, uncover risks, and guide decision-making with a commitment to continuous improvement

• Extremely organized with a relentless attention to detail

• Ability to balance many details, tasks, timelines, and stakeholders effectively while still meeting deadlines

• Superior organizational, time management, verbal, and written communication skills

• Exceptional project management and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to adapt to the various styles and personalities within a team

• Remain curious about the practice of information management and be proactively reporting issues so that system improvements can be made

Suggest Skills

• Project Management

• Supplier Management

• Microsoft Excel

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $74,000 to $120,000. 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

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Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is 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 an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference http://www1.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/eeoc_self_print_poster.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us by sending an email to accommodations@linkedin.com. This email box is designed to assist disabled job seekers who seek a reasonable accommodation to the application process. Emails sent for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

In your email, please include the following: (1) confirm you have a disability; (2) identify the disability-related limitation that needs to be accommodated, and (3) if known, describe the specific accommodation requested for the disability-related limitation. A response to your request may take up to three business days.

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.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement

As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates

This document provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://lnkd.in/GlobalDataPrivacyNotice