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 Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Francisco or New York.

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.

As Program Manager, Litigation, you will provide program management/paralegal support to our Protection, Competition, and Defense team, with primary emphasis on support for the Litigation team, including tracking and managing all active litigation matters, onboarding outside counsel, supporting budgeting and reporting tasks, and assisting on attorney workstreams. You will work within a fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative team that values humor and teamwork.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and update litigation matters in docket tracking software (currently LawVu).
• Under attorney supervision, identify custodians, draft, and manage sending of legal hold notices.
• Use a variety of tools to locate and collect corporate documents and platform information as needed for litigation matters.
• Support in-house attorneys’ work on litigation matters, including organizing docket files, collecting information in response to discovery requests, scheduling witness interviews, getting declarations signed, crafting meeting notes, and interfacing with outside counsel.
• Track case deadlines and project-manage attorney workstreams to ensure on-time deliverables to in-house and outside counsel.
• Work with our eDiscovery professionals to collect and review documents in Relativity.
• Investigate and independently handle small claims matters.
• Collaborate with attorneys, Legal Ops, and Finance to support Litigation budget management, spend reporting, and ensuring payment of litigation settlements
• Manage meeting agendas, create presentations and Litigation docket reports, and track key metrics updates for internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage Litigation software vendor relationships and contracts.
• Collaborate with other program managers across teams within the Protection, Competition, and Defense team on team-wide projects and shared initiatives
  
  
  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or related practical experience
• 5+ years of relevant experience as a Litigation Paralegal, Legal Project Manager, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in project / program management.
• 2+ years of experience with a variety of computer software applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to learn and utilize other business software (LawVu, SimpleLegal, Slack, Jira, Salesforce)
• Organizational skills to manage multiple contemporaneous matters.
• Familiarity with litigation processes such as identifying outside counsel, discovery, and witness interviews.
• You are a self-motivated and organized team player with the ability to drive projects, identify and resolve issues, and earn the confidence and cooperation of others.
• You communicate effectively and can work both independently and collaboratively.
• You have project management experience and give attention to detail while at the same time understanding the big picture.
• You are able to assess, update, and improve processes to make team work more efficient.
• Comfort juggling tasks from the mundane to the strategic, and an ability to work productively and deliver on deadline in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with a smile and a sense of humor.
• Excellent judgment and high integrity.
  
  
  

Suggested Skills:

• Program Management
• Legal Project Management
• Cross-Functional Partnership
  
  
  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $93,000 to $152,000. 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

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are 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 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
  
  
  

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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.