Director of Product Design
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 DescriptionAt 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.
Why lead a Product Design team at LinkedIn?
- Work and learn with passionate, talented, and supportive people
- Get the resources you need to grow and retain top talent
- Design products with a meaningful impact on the global workforce
- We value compassion, inclusivity, and trust, the foundations of a well-supported team
- A trusting, open environment helps us do our best work – and we have fun together!
Reporting to our Head of Product Design for LinkedIn Talent Solutions, you will lead our Jobs product design team, working collaboratively with leadership across the organization to establish a clear vision and strategy for the future of our Online Jobs products and Jobs Trust charters. You will be guiding the team in creating the future of AI-assisted hiring to create a simple, valuable, and trustworthy product suite. This role sits at the center of our Talent Marketplace, helping a member get hired every 8 seconds on our platform.
You’re an expert in systems thinking, relationship building, storytelling and collaborating across teams to create cohesive experiences. You’re detail oriented with a strong visual eye and high bar for craft. You are invested in coaching, supporting designers in their career goals, and creating a high a performing team environment. You can call on a full range of organizational and interpersonal skills to help your team operate at their highest and most effective level.
How can we help organizations across industries find the right talent with speed and simplicity? What are creative ways we can leverage AI to help hirers get the job done? How do we ensure our 1B+ members have a trusted experience job seeking on LinkedIn? How do we balance the marketplace, increase transparency, and drive more equitable hiring outcomes? If these questions spark your interest, we’d love to see your application.
Responsibilities
- Lead Design vision and strategy for our Online Jobs products (from posting to candidate review across consumer/self-serve) and Jobs Trust (creating a safe job-seeking experience, free from fraud)
- Manage a high-performing team consisting of a design lead and individual contributors with compassion; Attract, retain, develop, and manage individuals to reach their highest potential
- Set expectations and maintain high standards of quality of the work; inspire excellence and collaboration
- Establish trust and build confidence with cross-functional partners and executive leadership (e.g., Design, UXR, Product, Engineering, and Marketing); collaborate cross-functionally and across teams
- Improve operational excellence, prioritizing work and resources across product teams to maximize impact on the business and the user experience
- Co-create the future of LinkedIn by designing best-in-class products and leading world-class teams
- Act as a mentor, leader, and coach across LinkedIn Talent Solutions and the Design team overall, be an ambassador within and outside of LinkedIn to build our global Design brand
Basic Qualifications
- 10+ years of combined hands-on experience through practice and management of Product Design in the business context
- Bachelor’s degree in a Technology or Design related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience designing products across platforms and devices
- Experience managing product design managers
- Experience in associated practices, including content design, user experience research, motion, and accessibility standards
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience and understanding of how to design AI products at scale
- Ability to influence multiple product areas while being able to drive a strategy and vision across an organization that helps shape the future of the business
- Ability to deliver design solutions that grow the business area and create new value for members/customers
- Ability to develop teams of designers to become the next generation of key contributors - promoting sharing work openly and welcoming feedback
- Strong ability to solve unstructured problems that have many dependencies and lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans with cross-functional partners
- Great communicator and compelling storyteller
Suggested Skills
- Consumer product design
- Enterprise product design
- AI product design
- Managing high-performing teams
- Strategic influence and impact
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $211,000 to $342,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
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