Hari Srinivasan
VP of Product at LinkedIn leading Talent Solutions — the company’s largest business, covering all hiring, jobs, and learning products. Eight-and-a-half years at LinkedIn (at time of recording); joined through a small acquisition and, after a bruising first product review, anchored his entire tenure on LinkedIn’s “connect people to economic opportunity” north star.
Previously worked in automotive (Ford Hybrid Escape programme) before moving to tech. Runs a side-project site at mindofhari.com covering children’s books, board games, and low-sugar gummy bears.
Known for: leading the skills-first hiring push triggered by COVID marketplace imbalances; the PM skills triangle model (creator / data scientist / general manager — live on the edges); LinkedIn’s RAPID decision-making framework and five-day alignment escalation rule; the evolution of Open to Work from private signal to public green frame; and a course on product management built from LinkedIn’s internal product university bootcamp.