Principal Product Designer - Trust

This role will be based in Sunnyvale Mountain View San Francisco New York City or Bellevue.

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.

LinkedIns 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. Were passionate about designing an equal fair and accessible platform thats 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
• Were equipped with the best design tools in the business including Figma Principle and Miro 
• A trusting open environment helps us do our best workand we have fun together!

Product Design for Trust:
This Principal Product Designer role will focus specifically on Trust & Safety systems primarily supporting our Anti-Abuse team. Youll be developing frameworks that protect authentic members from adversarial actors such as signals that help members distinguish between authentic and malicious content and behavior. This role requires expertise in designing interventions and deterrence mechanisms for adversarial content and behaviors while balancing complex technical and regulatory requirements with user-centered design principles.

Were looking for designers who lead by connecting the dots between user insights design patterns and business goals. You will partner and collaborate closely with user research UX writing product management engineering marketing and data science. Designing for the worlds workforce takes a diverse empowered team come be a part of ours. 

Learn more about our design community at

#LinkedInDesign

Responsibilities:

• Define innovative approaches to handle adversarial behavior and content across the platform focusing on changing bad behavior preventing harmful content and protecting members from malicious actors
• Establish frameworks for determining appropriate user interventions and education based on behavior patterns (nudges vs. restrictions) and extend these frameworks to support evolving use cases
• Develop and scale Trust-driven intervention and education systems across product surfaces through internal guidance and governance
• Help protect LinkedIn job seekers end-to-end while improving agility to adapt to new attacks and harm trends
• Partner with other designers to define an updated visual language for Trust-driven interventions and education across all surfaces
• Establish clear design direction and gain executive buy-in for undefined problem areas
• Effectively communicate conceptual ideas design rationale and the specifics of user-centered design process to executive leadership
• Create holistic design solutions that address business brand regulatory legal and user requirements
• Work with UXR content design product managers operations policy legal regulatory and compliance and engineers to deliver final products
• Mentor mid-career designers to demonstrate craft excellence and cohesion across the Trust design team
• Partner closely with Trust Designers across reporting verification settings moderation account access security investigation tools and content review systems

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
• 10 years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate software web or agency)
• Experience establishing design strategy for Trust and Safety systems particularly with high-risk content and behaviors

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong experience in providing vision and guidance that helps shape the future of Trust & Safety; Subject matter expert who leads design across Trust departments or multiple business areas
• Exceptional ability to influence other product areas across the organization and drive strategy and vision across Trust & Safety initiatives
• Exceptional ability to deliver design solutions that protect members while growing the business area and creating new value for members/customers
• Mastery in solving unstructured problems in Trust & Safety that have many dependencies regulatory constraints and lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective actionable plans
• Experience designing for social media products with expertise in social well-being Trust & Safety best practices and trauma-informed design
• Strong systems thinking capability to create cohesive frameworks that flex and scale across every product surface
• Expert understanding of potential abuse vectors and the climate that leads to malicious intent
• Ability to balance complex regulatory requirements business and legal concerns with strong user-centered design principles
• Experience creating thoughtful interventions and deterrence mechanisms that distinguish between different types of negative behaviors member context and level of risk
• Exceptional ability in visual communication for sensitive and high-risk moments
• Strong experience in effectively communicating ideas to executive leadership and/or broader LinkedIn organization
• Track record of establishing new strategies teams and frameworks then scaling and operationalizing them
• Have a website or other samples of work demonstrating experience with Trust & Safety design solutions

Suggested Skills:

• Regulatory Compliance Design
• Trauma-informed Design
• Mentoring

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.   

The pay range for this role is $180000 to $290000. 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 Information :

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