Senior Social Strategist, Discovery & Culture

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, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. 

This role will be based in San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. 

At LinkedIn, our Social, Creator & Partnerships team is responsible for driving measurable impact across marketing through strategic partnerships, creator collaboration, and our owned social presence. We operate at the intersection of brand, content, and distribution — building a social engine that drives relevance, reach, and results.

As audience behavior continues to shift across social platforms, creator ecosystems, communities, and AI-mediated discovery environments, we are evolving how LinkedIn earns attention, builds authority, and drives measurable impact. This role will help shape that evolution.

We are seeking a Senior Social Strategist, Discovery & Culture to join our core strategy team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role for a modern social strategist who combines deep platform instinct, strong cultural judgment, and discovery fluency across surfaces like YouTube, Reddit, AI/LLM search environments, and in-platform social search.

The right candidate will be able to turn research, social listening, performance data, audience behavior, and platform signals into clear recommendations, tightly constructed briefs, and social programs that drive greater relevance, discovery, and business impact. This role is designed for someone who can move seamlessly between strategy and execution — translating insights into action, owning work end to end, and helping the team operate with more rigor, more leverage, and a clearer connection to business impact.

Responsibilities

Strategy & Vision

• Translate audience and business priorities into differentiated social-first strategies, briefs, and programs.
• Turn signals from research, social listening, performance data, platform behavior, and internal business context into actionable recommendations and creative direction.
• Help define what modern, high-impact social strategy looks like across LinkedIn’s flagship surfaces and discovery ecosystems.

Platform & Content Leadership

• Bring strong platform fluency and social-first judgment across LinkedIn, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, and emerging discovery environments.
• Identify where LinkedIn can show up with relevance and distinctiveness across cultural moments, creator ecosystems, communities, and search/discovery surfaces.
• Review and improve creative concepts from internal and external partners to ensure the work is strategically sound, platform-native, and built to break through.

Execution & Ownership

• Own initiatives end to end: from strategic framing and briefing through execution guidance, optimization, and synthesis of results.
• Manage multiple priorities simultaneously, solve unstructured problems with strong judgment, and move work forward with minimal dependencies.
• Spot gaps, opportunities, and improvements across the team’s work and proactively drive solutions that improve outcomes.

Measurement & Performance

• Use data, insights, and social intelligence to refine strategy, optimize content, and identify what should be scaled, adjusted, or stopped.
• Establish clear success metrics that go beyond engagement to reflect impact. 
• Translate learnings into clear internal recommendations and updates that help leadership and partners understand where social is driving value.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Partner closely with Production, Creator, Partnerships, Comms, Editorial, PMM, Paid Media, Measurement, and other teams to ensure integrated planning and execution.
• Influence stakeholders across functions through clear, persuasive, and purposeful communication.
• Navigate ambiguity and complexity effectively, finding the right people and information needed to strengthen the work and accelerate progress.

Builder Mindset

• Build repeat