Sr Business Operations Associate, Consumer Products

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 San Francisco or Mountain View.

We are looking for a Business Operations Senior Associate to join our BizOps Flagship Experience team in leading our top- and bottom-line impact through objective analysis, operational insights and strategic initiatives.     

You will be working closely with cross-functional teams within the Flagship organization, whose main objective is to create a global knowledge marketplace for professionals with equitable access to ideas, insights and inspirations to unlock a world of opportunity for all. You’ll have an opportunity to work across a broad range of Flagship pillars covering the Feed Experience and Relevance, Creator, and Search teams. You’ll be responsible for running the product performance management, defining product strategy (‘where to play’ and ‘how to win’ in the next 2+ years), as well as driving ideation and prioritization on what the team needs to do in quarterly and annual planning.       

Responsibilities:     

• Deliver strategic projects for our leadership that provide key business insights for high-priority initiatives     

• Conduct in-depth analysis of our various businesses and develop deep understanding of key value drivers to identify improvement areas and opportunities     

• Act as an operational leader in actively managing forecasting and business performance   

• Track business performance trends, perform diagnostic and drive actionable resolutions, as well as proactively identify opportunities for improvement     

• Serve as the connective tissue of a cross-functional team (including  Product, Data Science, AI, Engineering, Product Marketing, Finance, Business Development) to shape the future strategy for Flagship products     

• Identify, diagnose and resolve performance issues     

• Manage financial/operational dashboards to monitor business line performance and analyze business drivers     

• Communicate effectively across all levels (within the team, to cross-functional partners, to leadership / executives)     

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   

• Experience with SQL, Excel, data set manipulation and visualization, and presentation     

Preferred Qualifications:     

• Background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy or an operational or growth role within a technology company     

• Proactive and passionate: You’re independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations     

• High-energy, team-first attitude: You’re motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business     

• Highly analytical: You’re analytical, with experience decomposing and solving real world business problems, ideally building/using advanced models.     

• Concise and effective communications: You’re able to articulately present and debate recommendations with cross-functional teams and senior leadership      

Suggested Skills:   

• SQL   

• Strategy   

• Performance Management   

• Data Analysis  

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $100,000 to $156,000. 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 specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerati