Staff Product Designer

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 New York City.

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.

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.

Our products help professionals all over the world stay connected, informed, and productive. The LinkedIn ecosystem is about more than just job hunting. We create and support active communities and enterprise products around sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting.

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 seeking a Staff Product Designer to reimagine the ad formats and placements experience, helping advertisers reach the right audience through immersive, engaging content. This role demands strong systems thinking and interaction design skills, along with a collaborative spirit to work closely with horizontal stakeholders. 

You’ll drive new, engaging ways for LinkedIn's 1 billion members to connect with companies, discovering products and services in fresh, impactful ways. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of delivering high-quality consumer and enterprise experiences and a keen eye for detail, unafraid to introduce innovative ideas that elevate our offerings.

You’re a designer who leads by connecting the dots between user insights, design patterns, and business goals. This is a strategic, horizontal role in which you will partner and collaborate closely with user research, 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

• Be a partner throughout the product life cycle to product ideation with cross-functional partners to development with engineers.

Application Requirements:

• To be considered for this position, you must include a link to 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 depen