About Linda Jade

Strategic and results-oriented professional with over 10 years of expertise in business operations, program management, project management, and business development. systems thinker with a proven track record of successfully working with global companies like google, uber, meta, and visa to optimize organizational processes, lead cross-functional teams, manage complex projects under tight deadlines, and manage strategic partnership programs. managed budgets and reconciled purchase orders up to $5M.

Native english-teaching experience (tesol certification for online and offline teaching). business management, project management, social sciences, and education studies background. experience with Cambridge young learner’s english qualification courses (starters, movers, flyers and ielts). Business english communication expertise (phonics, speech development, public speaking, and debate) to lead meetings, follow-up with customers, and facilitate workshops. 

Fun fact 1: I was recruited to work as a bd program manager in 2023 for google x and their electrical grid mapping project team. due to my remote work location outside of the bay area california area, I was unable to accept the position. 

Fun fact 2: I have worked through multiple change management crises while at uber and facebook. I worked for the leadership and dev people’s team while Uber’s former Co-Founder and ceo was forced to resign during the summer of 2017. I worked for the product quality facebook team while facebook rebranded to establish its meta parent company.

After so many years across various sectors, I launched my own agency to offer business development advising, project/program management consulting, strategic marketing, website redesigning, and other services. by combining the skills from my vast work experience, I have been able to help business owners thrive—doing so during unprecedented times in 2020 during the covid pandemic. I have been trained by the small business administration to assist with business loan and grant applications in order to help small businesses get access to capital.

I consider myself a very lucky “do-gooder” to have been able to pivot, working across various sectors (non-profits, federal government organizations, multinational corporations, scrappy start-up’s) on a plethora of social + strategic initiatives, and to learn from inspiring leaders and amazing colleagues. The vivid memories of cold, bay area mornings waiting for the Facebook shuttle into its menlo park HQ campus; coordinating carpool rides into the Googleplex mountain view offices; commuting on bart during peak rush hours into downtown San Francisco—disembarking at Embarcadero and Powell street stations—all helped me to become who I am today to pursue my executive mba credentials. I am eager to learn, to contribute, and to do good.

Summary and Skills

I’ve held roles such as director of academics at the language development academy in ho chi minh city, where i developed curricula, trained teachers, and managed business partnerships. as a business partnerships program manager at google, i supported an ecosystem of tech partners, managed the partnership lifecycle across cross-functional teams, and supported the business development teams. in previous roles, i’ve handled special projects at visa; managed multiple work streams for the procurement and supply chain management teams at kaiser permanente; led projects within the product quality organization at facebook (which included over 300 people across various teams); i coordinated flagship leadership training events at uber; and developed business operations and event management systems at a health festivals startup. previously, as a client relationship manager at the women’s business center, i assisted with small businesses, providing marketing strategy, coaching clients to secure funding, and developing partnerships with hundreds of local businesses.

• based out of headquarter offices in san francisco and silicon valley for fortune 200 companies

• worked across orgs (BD, sales, L and D, marketing, operations, procurement, products, strategy, etc.)

• product mgmt/program dev-ops sprint cycles

• agile project mgmt skills (kanban, scrum)

• lean principles of continuous improvement and iterative processes

• lean, scrappy start-up experience

• managed operations budgets from $1-$5m usd

• software experience: google suites, excel spreadsheets, salesforce crm, oracle and sap database mgmt, sharepoint intranet, tableau and anaplan bi tools, project mgmt tools such as asana, slack, smartsheet, microsoft project, legal database for nda’s, mou’s, etc. jira ticketing, canva, gamma ai

• led global, cross-functional teams (emea, apac, latam, americas)

• bilingual english and vietnamese speaking, listening, reading, writing skills