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
Location: This role can be based in any of our U.S. office locations (including San Francisco/Bay Area, Chicago, Omaha, New York, Washington DC, or Detroit) although San Francisco/Bay Area is preferred. The office location will be in alignment with the U.S. office closest to the location that the approved-for-hire candidate resides.
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 LinkedIn Legal & Public Policy Team is made up of legal and policy professionals with diverse backgrounds and skill sets who have set an extremely high bar for providing legal and policy solutions. If you like smart, witty and motivated people, you will fit in well with the Legal & Public Policy Team.
As Program Manager, Litigation & Enforcement, you will provide program management support to our Litigation & Enforcement Team, with particular emphasis on support for Enforcement attorneys, including tracking and managing all enforcement matters, monitoring C&D correspondence, and organizing team timelines and tasks. You will work within a fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative team that values humor and team work.
Responsibilities:
- Support LinkedIn’s legal enforcement efforts to investigate and stop abuse on LinkedIn’s platform, scraping, spam, copyright violations, and User Agreement / TOS (terms of service) violations.
- Project manage the organization of documents, data, and timelines related to legal enforcement workflows in our Legal tracking software (currently LawVu).
- Support attorneys’ work on affirmative enforcement litigation, including managing litigation docket files, collecting and organizing internal information as evidence, managing collection of information in response to discovery requests, and scheduling witness interviews.
- Work with business partners in LinkedIn’s Trust & Safety, Customer Service, and Investigations teams to help protect the platform through legal enforcement.
- In collaboration with attorneys, scout for abusive chrome web store extensions, manage takedown processes, and engage in follow up with developers.
- Investigate and respond to LinkedIn Learning copyright infringement / piracy reports.
- Manage correspondence with relationship managers / authors related to copyright infringement / piracy.
- Manage enforcement vendor relationships, contracts, and coverage instruction.
- Flex into defensive litigation program management to organize, manage, and maintain our global Litigation tracking system calendar, and legal docket filings.
- Play an active role on the Legal, Competition & Enforcement team to help us fulfill LinkedIn’s mission of connecting the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful by being an integral member of our fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative and FUN Legal & Public Policy Team.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or related practical experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience as a Litigation Paralegal, Legal Project Manager, or equivalent.
- Experience with a variety of computer software applications, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software (Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and the ability to learn and utilize other business software (LawVu, Slack, Jira, Salesforce, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications:
- In-house experience, particularly with technology companies.
- Organizational skills to manage multiple contemporaneous matters.
- Familiarity with legal enforcement issues such as TOS (terms of service) violations.
- 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.
- 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 $89,000 to $145,000. 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: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference the following information for more information: https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/LinkedIn_EEO_Statement_2020.pdf. Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
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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.
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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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