Talent Architecture is the structured framework of your job roles, the skills required for each, and how those roles connect to career growth.

Think of it as the map of your workforce — ensuring employees, managers, and leaders have a consistent source of truth for career development.

You have two options:

• CSV Upload (fastest start): Use our LinkedIn-provided template to upload roles and skills. This option is best for pilot programs or when your architecture is still evolving.
• Workday HCM Integration (scales long-term): Use a secure SFTP-based sync from Workday to LinkedIn Learning. This option is best for mature, stable architectures.

Minimum required field: Job Title. You can also include descriptions, families, levels, and skills.

When you upload and publish your roles, your customizations flow across Career Hub: 

• Role Guides: Employees see your custom role titles, descriptions, families, and ingested skills that match our taxonomy. 
  • Custom skills that fall outside LinkedIn’s taxonomy are stored and will publish later this year.
• Next Role Explorer: Custom roles (with families, levels, descriptions, and taxonomy-matched skills) appear when they align 1:1 with a LinkedIn standard role.
  • If multiple custom roles map to one LinkedIn role, only the LinkedIn role displays today. Later this year, a pop-out will show all underlying custom roles and their attached data, including 100% of custom skills.
• Career Goals: Employees can select career goals from your custom role titles and taxonomy-matched skills.
  • Later this year, all of your custom skills will be included here as well.
• Learning Plans: Today, plans are powered by LinkedIn’s AI and personalized based on each learner’s goal, title, and skills. They do NOT prioritize custom org role data. Your full custom role and skill data will be prioritized in plans, delivering tailored development paths for your workforce.

The Talent Architecture integration workflow follows the following outline:

1. Ingest roles: Upload via CSV template (fastest start) or configure the Workday HCM integration (recommended for stable architectures).
2. Review in “In-Review”
   1. Accept or edit AI-suggested skills and descriptions, powered by LinkedIn’s Economic Graph.
   2. Map custom titles to LinkedIn standard titles.
   3. Add responsibilities manually (AI suggestions for responsibilities are paused today) by clicking the  Edit icon. 
3. Publish roles: Today, you can publish (or auto-publish) 50 Roles per page of complete data. Meaning you uploaded a title, skills, and descriptions. As well you have made sure every title that needs to be, is mapped to a standard one. Roles with suggestions need to be reviewed one by one to be eligible for publication 
4. Maintain freshness
   1. See trending skills per every published role, cut by company size and industry.
   2. Insights help you keep roles aligned with market demand and evolving needs.
   3. Easily add these skills to your role data for the freshest guidance 

Known Limitations

• Titles: Custom titles must be mapped to LinkedIn standard roles before publishing.
• Skills: LinkedIn-recognized and custom skills surface across Career Hub.
• Publishing: Limited to 50 eligible roles per page today
• Workday Sync: One-way only (Workday > Career Hub). Updates in Career Hub must be re-applied in Workday before the next sync.