Staff Visual Designer

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 New York, 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.

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.

Our products help professionals all over the world stay connected, informed, and productive. The LinkedIn ecosystem is about more than just job hunting. We create and support active communities and enterprise products around sales, marketing, learning, and recruiting.

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 

• We’re equipped with the best design tools in the business, including Figma

• A trusting, open environment helps us do our best work…and we have fun together!

We’re looking for a Staff Visual Designer who has experience developing best-in-class consumer digital products. You will partner and collaborate closely with user research, UX writing, product management, engineering, marketing, design systems, and other creative specialists. Designing for the world's workforce takes a diverse, empowered team — come be a part of ours. 

Learn more about our design community on our showcase page

#LinkedInDesign

Responsibilities:

• Partner with cross functional teams to evolve the visual language of LinkedIn’s products to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world of work

• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user-centered design process

• Clearly communicate strategic thinking and design decisions to a variety of partners

• Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements

• Collaborate daily with peers in every discipline, including engineering, content, research, marketing and product, to to deliver final products that are scalable, cohesive, and inspiring

• Deliver high-craft work on multiple projects simultaneously, balancing the correct level of effort and investment relative to product development maturity

Application Requirements:

• To be considered for this position, you must include your portfolio, website or other samples of work.  Portfolio exhibits conceptual experience, a proven understanding of design best practices, interactive experience, technical skills and craftsmanship

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 and/or software applications

• 7+ years of experience in brand design, user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, media, web or agency)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence, experience in integrating emerging technologies into your practices

• Ability to deliver projects independently and/or owning components of larger projects

• Ability to influence decisions on assigned projects by actively engaging and adding value in team discussions 

• Ability to create solutions that consider end-to-end user flows and impacts on adjacent experiences

• Identifies opportunities to extend and evolve the L