Souumya Nair

About Souumya Nair

With over seven years of experience in program management, my core competencies lie in executive-level communication and global delivery, driven by a mission to maximize efficiency and scale operations at LinkedIn. My strategic approach aligns with LinkedIn\'s culture of innovation, and I am committed to contributing diverse perspectives and experiences to bolster our team\'s success.At LinkedIn, I\'ve led multi-site scrum management and have been pivotal in aligning organizational strategy with customer demands. My role involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring that projects not only meet their goals but also enhance our program-level risk mitigation planning. My expertise in executive communication and problem-solving has been instrumental in driving the progress of our wide-reaching efficiency projects.

Experience

1. Senior Program Manager

   Linkedin

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Collaborated with product heads and engineering leadership to shape and form their requirements, setting priorities, establishing goals & subsequently aligning to the organizational strategy and ensuring projects have clear success criteria and operational plan defined.• Responsible for program-level risk assessment and risk mitigation planning.• Led multi-site scrum management. Defined program timelines, project plans, worked closely with partner teams and cross-functional teams to accelerate the migration progress for all applications. Lead, tracked, and reported status for organization-wide efficiency project spanning across 25+ teams and saved thousands of hours of toil by customer teams annually.• Led the agile transformation in the organization, including the adoption of best practices. Implemented the process of leveraging Jira portfolio for applying a structured execution methodology and project management approach. Improved the process to identify customer pain points and streamlined the response and user experience.• Collaborated closely with Site Engineering leadership in improvising operational efficiency and making effective organizational improvements. Tracked and presented project/initiatives status in bi- weekly executive leadership meetings and influenced teams’ prioritizations and decision-making process.• Organized SRE-wide production incident reviews. Led software teams to present recent critical incidents’ root causes, close on post-incident follow-ups, and ensured corrective measures are documented and reported to be reviewed by senior management. Maintained the metric of 85% efficiency in bringing the open action items on teams to closure.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science

• SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

  Master of Business Administration (MBA), Human Resources Management and Services

Skills

• Employee Engagement
• Interviewing
• Talent Acquisition
• Employer Branding
• Interviews
• Talent Management
• Sourcing
• Recruiting
• Screening Resumes
• Management
• Technical Recruiting
• Team Management
• Human Resources
• Onboarding
• Screening
• Hiring
• Analysis
• Executive Search
• Employee Relations