Sr. Talent Management Consultant, Talent Architect
IT, People & HR
San Francisco, CA, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA · United States
Posted on Apr 1, 2025
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 can be based in San Francisco, Mountain View, or Chicago.
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.
At LinkedIn, we are doubling down on our skills-based organizational strategy. If you are someone who wants to directly impact and drive our skills-based talent strategy for LinkedIn employees, we have the opportunity for you. As a Talent Architect, you’ll be responsible for helping us to build our internal talent architecture. Not only will you be working alongside a team of Talent Architects, but you will be partnering with senior leaders across the business, HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and other Global Talent Organization (GTO) leaders. Talent Architecture is one of GTO’s core priorities.
Talent Architecture is a team that offers the ability to drive impact and get direct exposure to talent strategy and operations. If you are someone who likes to build from the ground up, likes to solve interesting and complex challenges, is a strong project manager, and who is comfortable with ambiguity, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
In your day-to-day work, you’ll be interacting with HRBPs, GTO partners (such as Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and many others), business leaders, our vendor partner, and your team members to accomplish our ambitions of re-building our talent architecture foundation for our company.
Basic Qualifications:
The pay range for this role is $112,000 to $181,000. 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
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: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.
Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf and
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
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:
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.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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 can be based in San Francisco, Mountain View, or Chicago.
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.
At LinkedIn, we are doubling down on our skills-based organizational strategy. If you are someone who wants to directly impact and drive our skills-based talent strategy for LinkedIn employees, we have the opportunity for you. As a Talent Architect, you’ll be responsible for helping us to build our internal talent architecture. Not only will you be working alongside a team of Talent Architects, but you will be partnering with senior leaders across the business, HR Business Partners (HRBPs) and other Global Talent Organization (GTO) leaders. Talent Architecture is one of GTO’s core priorities.
Talent Architecture is a team that offers the ability to drive impact and get direct exposure to talent strategy and operations. If you are someone who likes to build from the ground up, likes to solve interesting and complex challenges, is a strong project manager, and who is comfortable with ambiguity, this is the role for you.
Responsibilities:
In your day-to-day work, you’ll be interacting with HRBPs, GTO partners (such as Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and many others), business leaders, our vendor partner, and your team members to accomplish our ambitions of re-building our talent architecture foundation for our company.
- You will partner on projects that will enable us to be successful in implementing skills strategies on both sides of the talent equation: demand (i.e., what skills do our roles require?) and supply (i.e., what skills do our employees have?).
- You will be responsible for a set of roles (e.g., engineering, sales, cross-functional), orchestrating the job analysis process (alongside a vendor) to identify the responsibilities, skills and skills proficiencies for employees in an org. You’ll analyze roles that exist and recommend changes as needed, coordinating with HRBPs, Comp, and the business.
- As the point of contact within your segment, you will be responsible for communications, project management, change management, and deliverables for that segment. Your role will require upskilling relevant parties (e.g., the business, HRBP teams, TA team, etc.) on talent architecture and aligning the work to key outcomes for your partners.
- Given the size and start-up nature of the team, you’ll have multiple projects at any time and will have to be agile and flexible as we develop our approach and process.
- Greater internal mobility by helping employees see how the skills they have match the skills for the roles they want
- Improved performance practices and career conversations between managers and employees based on clear, consistent role documentation
- Increased consistency within our hiring process that is based on a candidate’s skills and experiences
- Improved sophistication in workforce planning
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS or equivalent experience
- 5+ years experience in HR, Talent, management consulting, or equivalent
- Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Human Resources Management, or related field or experience in management consulting
- Experience developing or implementing a job architecture
- Experience with job analysis and/or competency modeling, particularly with sales roles (quota and non-quota)
- Experience with project and/or program management
- Experience building or implementing skills-based strategies or technology
- Experience with designing and/or executing change management initiatives
- Experience diagnosing talent problems and providing data-based recommendations that serve business needs
- Project management
- Analytical problem solving
- Cross-team collaboration
- Change management
- Consulting
The pay range for this role is $112,000 to $181,000. 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
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: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.
Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12ScreenRdr.pdf and
https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
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
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.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.