Principal Product Designer, Consumer

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role will be based in either New York, Sunnyvale, San Francisco, or Home Office depending on which location the applicant chosen for the role is currently residing.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options. This means you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or you can work remotely from most locations within the country listed for this role.

LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our global Product Design team advances this vision through quality, inclusive design. We're passionate about designing an equal, fair, and accessible platform that’s modern, engaging, and responsible.

This exciting new role will significantly shape and transform the overall visual and interaction design of our consumer application. You’ll be responsible for influencing and elevating the motion design and micro-interactions that surface throughout our app — focusing on the details to craft an exceptional experience. You will partner closely with our Brand team to translate how our brand shines through our product ecosystem. This is a unique opportunity to impact the fundamental look and feel of an app that a billion members use to create economic opportunities for themselves.

Why join the Product Design team at LinkedIn?

• Designers are strategic partners, from product innovation and planning to launch
• Work and learn with passionate, talented, and supportive people
• We work on both consumer and enterprise products and encourage team rotation, so you can stay engaged and keep growing
• We’re equipped with the best design tools in the business, including Figma, Principle, and Miro 
• A trusting, open environment helps us do our best work…and we have fun together!

We’re looking for designers who lead by connecting the dots between user insights, design patterns, and business goals. You will partner and collaborate closely with user research, UX writing, product management, engineering, marketing, and data science. Designing for the world's workforce takes a diverse, empowered team — come be a part of ours. 

Learn more about our design community at design.linkedin.com

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Responsibilities:

• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user-centered design process
• Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements
• Work with web developers and engineers to deliver final products

Application Requirements:

• To be considered for this position, you must include your portfolio, website or other samples of work.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of web and/or software applications
• 10+ years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, web or agency)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in providing vision and guidance that helps shape the future of the business; Subject matter expert who leads design across a department or multiple business areas
• Exceptional ability to influence other product areas across the organization and drive strategy and vision across the business area
• Exceptional ability to deliver design solutions that grow the business area and create new value for members/customers
• Mastery in solving unstructured problems that have many dependencies and may have lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans
• Exceptional ability in visual communication
• Strong experience in effectively communicating ideas to exec leadership and/or broader LinkedIn organization

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