Staff Product Designer

This role will be based in New York Sunnyvale or San Francisco.

LinkedIns Consumer Experience team is responsible for the core feed experiencethe front door to LinkedInfor over 1 billion members. Our mission is to ensure members time on LinkedIn is consistently productive informative and well-spent.

We own both the architecture of the feed and the content ecosystem that powers itincluding video news conversations and more. Our work shapes how members discover connect and engage within LinkedIn. The work is complex high-visibility and a strategic priority for the company.

As a Staff Product Designer on the Feed team you will play a critical role in defining the long-term evolution of LinkedIns Feed experience. Youll lead design for high-impact ambiguous problem spaces raise the bar on craft and systems thinking and help modernize a core product surface that touches every member every day.

This role is ideal for a designer who thrives at scalesomeone who can balance vision and execution influence across teams and bring bold strategic design thinking to a historically mature but evolving product area.

Responsibilities:

• Own and shape major areas of the Feed experience driving end-to-end design from early strategy and problem framing through execution and iteration.

• Define and evolve the design vision for key Feed surfaces aligning near-term execution with longer-term platform and experience strategy.

• Explore prototype and validate new interaction models formats and engagement mechanics that modernize how content is experienced at scale.

• Partner closely with Product Engineering Research Data Science and Content Design to influence roadmaps align on tradeoffs and drive high-quality outcomes across teams.

• Use qualitative insights experimentation and data to inform decisions and continuously refine the experience post-launch.

• Set and uphold a high bar for design craft including visual design interaction quality motion and systems coherence across the Feed ecosystem.

• Communicate complex design ideas clearly to senior leadership articulating vision rationale and tradeoffs with confidence.

• Act as a design multiplier mentoring designers offering thoughtful critique and helping elevate design quality beyond your immediate scope.

• Advocate for inclusive accessible design principles and ensure solutions scale across diverse member needs and global contexts.

• To be considered for this position you must include your portfolio website or other samples of work demonstrating design expertise 

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

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

• 8 years of product design experience with a portfolio demonstrating leadership on complex high-impact consumer products.

• Proven ability to lead design in ambiguous problem spaces setting direction and driving alignment across multiple partners or teams.

• Background in interaction and visual design expertise with a refined sense of typography layout hierarchy and motion.

• Deep UX fundamentals including information architecture system-level thinking and designing for engagement and retention at scale.

• Fluency in Figma and modern prototyping workflows with the ability to move between low- and high-fidelity as needed.

• Data-informed mindset comfortable partnering with research and analytics to shape hypotheses evaluate outcomes and iterate.

• Experience in communication and storytelling skills including experience presenting to senior leaders and influencing without authority.

• Experience contributing to or shaping design systems while maintaining flexibility for innovation and evolution.

• Experience understanding accessibility standards and inclusive design best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing feeds discovery or recommendation-driven experiences including an understanding of personalization and ranking dynamics.

• Familiarity with AI- or algorithmically-driven products with a thoughtful judgment-driven approach to applying emerging technologies.

• Experience leading medium-to-large initiatives that span multiple teams or product areas.

• Comfort collaborating with engineering on technically complex systems; familiarity with front-end concepts is a plus.

• Experience using motion design or microinteractions to meaningfully enhance content experiences.

• Track record of improving product quality and coherence across an ecosystem not just within a single feature area.

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  $151000 to $246000. 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: Information :

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