Director, Ecosystem strategy

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 is based in Sunnyvale or San Francisco.  

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. 

Our Ecosystem Strategic Finance team is searching for a Director of Strategic Finance for the Ecosystem Strategy & Performance. This person will partner with our Product Executive team on strategic and operational projects focused on expanding growth, health, and value delivered within the LinkedIn member ecosystem. A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of strategic insight, analytical rigor, synthesized communication; and have experience with executive partnership, leading transformational initiatives, and team leadership that empowers and develops our talented employees. 

Responsibilities 

• Identifies new opportunities for growth, makes novel strategic recommendations, and drives strategy development for a function/line of business/organizations.  

• Ensures pressure testing of growth opportunities and ensures the consideration of trade-offs and implications across functions/lines of business/organizations.  

• Leverages insights, data, internal/external trends, and narratives to influence stakeholders and executive leadership.  

• Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues affecting the function/line of business/organization. 

• Leads and develops multiple complex workstreams, projects, or operational processes within a function/line of business/organization.  

• Anticipates obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend and drive implementation of innovative solutions. 

• Drives performance management, including the creation, maintenance, and updating of models and forecasts.  

• Drives the delivery of data architecture used to execute ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address business questions.  

• Oversees coaching and providing actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners and invites upward feedback.  

• Identifies and supports opportunities for people development, movement and transformation across the team and company. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND a minimum of 10 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience. 

• A minimum of 4 years of people management experience. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• A minimum of 7 years of people management experience. 

• 8+ years of experience in the technology industry. 

Suggested Skills 

• Communication 

• Cross-Team Collaboration  

• Influencing for Impact  

• Problem Solving  

• Strategic Thinking  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $171,000 to $278,000. 

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor. 

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

Additional Information

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