Staff Product Designer

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 Staff Product Designer role will focus specifically on building and accelerating Trust & Safety systems both for member-facing frameworks and internal platform tools. Reporting to the Director of Trust Design you will operate as a design leader with strong engineering depthsupporting end-to-end experience strategy while personally driving high-fidelity implementation-quality design front-end code and internal tooling that accelerates our work. You will shape how Trust experiences are conceived validated and scaled across LinkedIn especially in complex high-risk domains.

Youll collaborate closely with Product Designers Product Managers Engineers Design Systems and partner teams across the LinkedIn ecosystem to translate Trust patterns into high-quality accessible and cohesive implementations. This role requires strong frontend engineering skills fluency in interaction design and the ability to navigate complex technical regulatory and user-experience constraints.

Were looking for Designers who flex into front-end and who connect the dots between design systems interaction patterns and technical architecturehelping LinkedIn build Trust experiences that are consistent scalable and ultimately self-service.

Learn more about our design community at

#LinkedInDesign

Responsibilities:

• Partner directly with Product Designers to co-create interaction models and systems guiding design decisions through technical insight and POCs and ensuring high-fidelity translation into production

• Build and maintain frontend components and patterns that support Trust & Safety experiences across multiple product surfaces

• Develop interactive production-ready prototypes to explore complex flows edge cases and high-risk user moments before full implementation

• Contribute to and evolve shared design systems and UI frameworks to ensure consistency scalability and accessibility across Trust surfaces

• Collaborate with Product Management Engineering and Design Systems to align on constraints tradeoffs and implementation details

• Advocate for UX quality usability consistency accessibility and performance throughout the development lifecycle

• Establish best practices for UI architecture component reuse and maintainability within Trust engineering efforts

• Support rapid iteration in response to new abuse vectors harm trends and regulatory requirements

• Help bridge communication between design and engineering by clarifying intent constraints and feasibility

• Mentor engineers and designers across teams raising the bar for frontend craft interaction quality and design-to-code workflows at a broader organizational level

• Lead complex cross-team design initiatives that span multiple product surfaces aligning user experience business goals and technical constraints

• Identify systemic gaps in tooling frameworks or design systems and drive durable solutions that scale beyond a single team

• Anticipate future Trust & Safety needs and proactively build foundations that enable faster response to emerging abuse vectors and harm trends

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction Design or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system or shared UI library

• Background in modern frontend technologies (HTML CSS JavaScript/TypeScript)

• Experience building user interfaces in collaboration with designers and cross-functional partners

• 10 years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate software web or agency)

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience establishing design strategy for Trust and Safety systems particularly with high-risk content and behaviors

• Significant experience leading frontend or design engineering efforts across the complete product development lifecycle for complex web or software applications

• Proven ability to influence technical and design direction across multiple teams or product areas without direct authority

• Strong systems-thinking skills with experience designing frameworks and abstractions that scale across diverse use cases

• Experience leading ambiguous high-impact initiatives with long time horizons and many dependencies

• Track record of setting quality bars and best practices adopted beyond an immediate team

• Experience partnering with senior design engineering and product leaders to shape strategy and execution

• Experience working on large-scale consumer or enterprise products

• Deep understanding of interaction design motion and state management for complex user flows

• Strong accessibility knowledge and experience building inclusive WCAG-compliant interfaces

• Ability to solve unstructured problems with many dependencies constraints and evolving requirements

• Experience working on Trust & Safety integrity or high-risk product surfaces

• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across design engineering and product disciplines

• Track record of improving product quality UX consistency or frontend foundations across teams

• 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:

• Technical Leadership

• Systems Architecture

• Strategic Prototyping

• Frontend Engineering

• Design Systems

• Interaction Prototyping

• Accessibility & Inclusive Design

• Cross-functional Collaboration

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 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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