Principal Product Designer

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.

This role will be based in Sunnyvale or San Francisco.

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.

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.

This role would be a part of the Growth and Premium team focused on 0→1 venture exploration projects that define the future of growth. You’ll take insights from research and other inputs to form hypotheses, rapidly prototype concepts, and determine viability and investment potential. You’ll be the sole designer on early-stage initiatives—crafting compelling business cases and working closely with cross-functional partners including product, engineering, research, and content design.

We're looking for a strong individual contributor who thrives in ambiguity, works well with lean teams, and helps shape how we work. You’ll also mentor other designers and share your craft expertise. This role reports into design leadership and collaborates closely with executive stakeholders.

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!

Learn more about our design community at design.linkedin.com

#LinkedInDesign

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

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
• 10+ 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 providing vision and guidance that helps shape the future of the business; Subject matter expert who leads design across a department or multiple business areas
• Exceptional ability to influence other product areas across the organization and drive strategy and vision across the business area
• Exceptional ability to deliver design solutions that grow the business area and create new value for members/customers
• Mastery in solving unstructured problems that have many dependencies and may have lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans
• Exceptional ability in visual communication
• Strong experience in effectively communicating ideas to exec leadership and/or broader LinkedIn organization

Suggested Skills:

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

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is $180,000-$290,000. 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 considerations.    

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

Equal Opportunity Statement

LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: EEO Statement_2020 - Signed.pdf.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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