Staff Product Designer, Network Growth and Notifications

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

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both 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.

This role will be based in Sunnyvale or San Francisco.

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.

The Network Growth and Notifications teams are central to LinkedIn’s vision. We help members grow, nurture, and leverage their networks. This enables members to connect to jobs, topical information, and business opportunities, to name just a few. We’re considering new ways to do this using innovative technologies and new ideas about what makes a network strong. This is an exciting time to join us in shaping our vision.

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 a designer who leads 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

#LinkedInDesign

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 or software applications
• 7+ years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, web or agency)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in delivering large-scale projects independently; Projects are forward-thinking and shape the future of the business; Subject matter expert who owns a business area
• Demonstrated ability to drive strategy and vision for respective projects and teams
• Strong ability to deliver design solutions for unstructured problems that have many dependencies
• Excellent ability in visual communication
• Experience in solving unstructured problems that have few dependencies; Embraces ambiguity and can transform it into effective, actionable plans
• Strong ability to contribute ideas that influence product strategy on adjacent teams

Suggested Skills:(edit if HM has other suggested skills)

• Consumer Design
• Visual Design
• Interaction Design
• Product Thinking
• Leadership

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $141,000 to $230,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and