Business Operations, Senior Associate - Trust

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 the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City. 

LinkedIn’s Business Operations team is seeking a highly strategic, driven, and analytical Senior Associate to tackle high-priority strategic and executional questions on digital Trust and Safety. This individual will partner with a wide range of cross functional teams from Product, Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence to Ops, Policy, and Legal to ensure that LinkedIn is a safe and trusted platform for our members and customers.  This is a great role for someone with a passion for the intersection between policy, technology and strategy, and will require an entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to work independently to drive impact. 

Responsibilities: 

• Be an expert: Develop in-depth understanding of the business drivers for Trust and the broader LinkedIn product ecosystem 

• Distill direction: Lead in-depth analytical efforts in an unstructured environment to generate insights on key value drivers and improvement opportunities 

• Influence decision-making: Serve as a strategic advisor and thought partner to cross-functional Trust leadership, influencing decision-making on key strategy and operations issues 

• Manage performance: Define key metrics, forecast performance, establish goals, and identify / diagnose / resolve performance issues 

• Create connective tissue: Work with a broad set of partners to ensure the successful delivery of key cross-functional priorities by sharing knowledge, driving efficient collaboration, proactively flagging risks or bottlenecks, and recommending course-corrections as appropriate 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• BA/BS degree in engineering, math, statistics, physics, computer science, business or related discipline or relevant work experience   

• 4+ years of work experience in a strategy related role with an emphasis on quantitative skills 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Practical experience: Experience with and/or genuine passion for technology, online businesses, strategy/competitor analysis, and/or entrepreneurship 

• Natural problem-solver: Comfortable with data and ambiguity, and able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on higher level strategy 

• Highly analytical: Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems, ideally building/using advanced Excel models. SQL a plus. 

• Effective communications: Excellent communication skills to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations 

• Initiative and ownership: Ability to act with limited oversight on day-to-day basis, balancing multiple priorities 

• Proactive and relentless: Independently capable of seeking information in an unstructured environment, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations 

• Team-first attitude: Motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business and how LinkedIn operates 

• Executive presence: Experience working closely with senior executives to solve challenging business problems; ability to credibly and compellingly present and debate recommendations with senior leadership 

Suggested Skills:  

• Strategy Consulting 

• Product Sense 

• Quantitative Analysis  

• Cross-Functional Partnership 

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 

The pay range for this role is $96,000 - $156,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each