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 either New York, Sunnyvale, 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.

This Senior Product Design Manager will lead a team across some of the most visible and impactful areas of the LinkedIn consumer experience. They'll be expected balance optimizations and while driving a holistic reimagining of LinkedIn's Feed to better serve the world's professionals with an emphasis on knowledge, conversation, immersive media and news. This requires an understanding of how to bring clarity and simplicity to a complex space that supports multiple lines of business, and the ability to challenge established paradigms. This role will work hand-in-hand with product, engineering and research to build the future of where the world's professional come to gain support, knowledge and community.

Why lead the Product Design team at LinkedIn?

• Get the resources you need to hire, grow, and retain top design talent

• Develop deep understanding of a dynamic, complex product ecosystem

• We’re committed to compassionate, empathetic leadership

• We value inclusivity and trust, the foundations of a well-supported team

You’ll shape the future of the business in collaboration with product and engineering partners, and design teams across the organization. Come lead a diverse, empowered team, designing for the world’s workforce.

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

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Responsibilities:

• Define, direct, and oversee the creative direction of our suite of products

• Proactively seek opportunities to drive marketplace growth and integrate with other LinkedIn business solutions

• Effectively communicate ideas, design rationale and specifics of the design approach

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

• Manage, coach, and provide directed feedback to product designers and leads to deliver the final product

Application Requirements:

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

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience managing and directing creative projects

• Experience directing and guiding a team through a complete lifecycle of several launched projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong user interaction and visual design skills

• Experience designing around user generated content

• Ability to understand complex consumer ecosystems supporting multiple lines of business with competing priorities

• Ability to balance vision with MVP via sound strategy

• Experience up-leveling hard skills and performance management

• Strong experience in providing vision and guidance that helps shape the future of the business

• Experience managing senior individual contributors and managers

• Exceptional ability to influence on other product areas across the organization; Drives strategy and vision across the business area

• Exceptional ability to delivers design solutions that grow the business area and create new value for members/customers

• Exceptional ability to develop teams of designers to become the next generation of key contributors - promoting sharing work openly and welcoming feedback

• Mastery in solving unstructured problems that have many dependencies and may have lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans with cross-functional partners

Suggested Skills:

• UX/UI Design

• Vision and Strategy Execution

• Performance Management

• Consumer Ecosystem Design

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $173,000 to $280,000. 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 (https://microsoft.sharepoint.com/:b:/t/LinkedInGCI/EeE8sk7CTIdFmEp9ONzFOTEBM62TPrWLMHs4J1C_QxVTbg?e=xcELJV) .

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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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