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This role will be based in Bellevue, Chicago, Carpinteria, Detroit, New York City, Omaha, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C
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.
This role will be part of the People Analytics organization within the Global Talent Organization (GTO) at LinkedIn. People Analytics enables better, faster, and more strategic workforce decisions through trusted data, scalable insights, and modern analytics platforms.
We are seeking a highly collaborative and technically strong Data Governance professional to help build and operationalize the next generation of People Data Governance capabilities. This role will partner closely with People Analytics, Engineering, HR Technology, Data Science, Security, Privacy, and business stakeholders to establish trusted, scalable, and AI-ready workforce data foundations.
This position goes beyond traditional governance execution and will help shape how enterprise people data is structured, governed, standardized, and operationalized to support modern analytics, automation, and emerging AI use cases. The ideal candidate will combine strong governance expertise with hands-on technical acumen and an understanding of how upstream business processes influence downstream analytics and AI outcomes.
The successful candidate will help drive governance maturity across data ownership, stewardship, metadata management, observability, semantic modeling, and data quality management while enabling scalable and compliant consumption of workforce data across the enterprise.
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LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $95,000-$158,000.
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.
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