Senior Illustrator/Iconographer, Creative Systems - job 2 of 2

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 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 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

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

We’re looking for visual designers with strong iconography and illustration skills who have experience developing visual assets for 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:

• Create high-craft iconography and illustrations that meet technical and visual design requirements

• 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

• 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

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in graphic design, fine art, 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

• 5+ years of experience in illustration, 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 practice

• 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 LinkedIn design language 

Suggested Skills:

• Iconography

• Illustration

• Visual design

• Storytelling

• Leadership

• Product Thinking

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  

The pay range for this role is insert range from compfinder $123,000 - $201,000. 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 

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are 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.

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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• 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.

LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.

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