Staff Product Designer, Search + Generative AI

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 Mountain View, San Francisco 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’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.

As part of LinkedIn’s Generative AI and Search team, you will play a critical role in shaping the future of professional discovery and interaction by creating transformative experiences powered by generative AI. Your work will focus on leveraging AI to enhance search capabilities and develop intelligent agents that assist, guide, and empower users throughout their professional journeys, redefining networking and career development on LinkedIn.

We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of innovation and craft, with a strong passion for emerging technologies, generative AI, and creating elegant solutions for complex problems. Your contributions will help define how generative AI and intelligent agents reshape LinkedIn’s ecosystem, enabling a future where proactive, personalized support is seamlessly integrated into the professional experience.

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 looking for a designer who leads by connecting the dots between user insights, design patterns, and business goals. You will partner and collaborate closely with user research, UX writing, 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

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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
• Work with web developers and engineers to deliver final products

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)
• To be considered for this position, you must include your portfolio, website or other samples of work.

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 dependencies; Embraces ambiguity and can transform it into effective, actionable plans
• Strong ability to contribute ideas that influence product strategy on adjacent teams

Suggested Skills:

• Product Thinking
• Visual Design
• Interaction Design
• Storytelling
• Leadership

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