Principal Product Manager -- Ads Marketplace Relevance and Optimization

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 San Francisco or Sunnyvale or New York

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 was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology. At LinkedIn, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works.

We are looking for an adtech Product Manager to join our Product Management team to drive the success of our LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) business. This role is at the core of optimizing LinkedIn's advertising marketplace for relevance and efficiency. You will drive the evolution of our ad delivery system--in a way that maximizes value for advertisers, members, and LinkedIn. Your work will directly impact marketplace economics by fostering trust, improving transparency, and ensuring optimal value delivery through intelligent relevance and allocation strategies.   

In this role, you would be a key member of the LMS product team, which is responsible for delivering products and solutions that put the member experience first & foremost and deliver incredible value to our advertisers. This role will collaborate closely with engineering, data sciences, and other cross-functional teams to build a suite of products and features using leading edge machine learning and big data technologies, that help our customers succeed in their marketing objectives.  This role will lead the conception and development of cutting edge technologies and market differentiating customer features that will drive the next step of our evolution as a B2B marketplace.

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product, Engineering, Business Development, AI and Marketing to create and articulate a compelling vision, strategy, and roadmap for your assigned product areas. Get alignment from stakeholder teams and executives to translate strategy into actionable product milestones that deliver incremental value to our customers.

• Synthesize market needs from interactions with customers, partners, sales and marketing teams into product requirements and roadmap

• Define product metrics, objectives, and key results to help guide, prioritize, and measure the success of the strategy, product initiatives, and releases for the LMS business.

• Work cross-functionally with engineering, data sciences, marketing, legal, and business development teams to build, release, promote, and successfully grow features from launch to maturity.

• Make recommendations about whether to build, buy, or partner for key capabilities required to deliver products to the market.

• Analyze external ad tech landscape and emerging technologies. Leverage insights to identify opportunities and inform the development of cutting-edge, differentiated solutions for our relevance and optimization challenges.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BS degree in a technology-related field or equivalent experience.

• 9+ years of experience in a product management or equivalent role

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS or higher degree in a technology-related field

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to synthesize and simplify complex technical subjects for technical, non-technical, partner and executive audiences alike

• Exceptional ability to lead cross-functional teams. Experience working with a set of highly skilled engineers, data scientists, and designers.

• Able to thrive in a fast paced environment. Strong analytical skills and ability to execute complex product launches.

• Passionate for building data driven products and experience i