Sr. Product Designer

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. 

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

The workforce is evolving at a scale and pace unseen since the Industrial Revolution and LinkedIn Search is uniquely positioned to help. Join us as we transform LinkedIn from a traditional jobs and people lookup tool into an indispensable AI-powered partner that connects 1B global users to economic opportunity.

As a Senior Product Designer you will shape the future of the LinkedIn member experience. Operating at the intersection of technical expertise and human-centered design you will lead zero-to-one initiatives within a mature global platform turning ambitious AI capabilities into intuitive beautiful and transformative products.

• Partner hand-in-hand with Engineering Product and other cross-functional partners to navigate complex member problems. Leverage your collaboration strengths to influence product strategy and deliver helpful products to 1B global members.
• Utilize advanced prototyping tools and AI-driven workflows to simulate live content build interactive concepts and validate dynamic user flows in rapid experimentation loops.
• Apply a rigorous systems-thinking approach to ensure individual UI components integrate seamlessly into a cohesive global product ecosystem. Drive clarity out of ambiguity and shepherd radical divergent ideas from initial concept to launch.
• Craft visual motion and interaction patterns that set industry benchmarks. Ensure every experience adheres to world-class standards in localization usability safety accessibility and ethical AI.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications:

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

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

• Proven ability to lead design in ambiguous and technically rigorous 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 understanding accessibility standards and inclusive design best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven Track Record of Impact: A history of shepherding radical ideas fostering divergent design thinking and shipping transformative zero-to-one products within scaled highly matrixed environments.

• Experience using system instructions AI tools and interactive prototyping platforms (e.g. Cursor Claude Code Figma) to shape UX requirements.

• Systems & Craft Mastery: Exceptional fluency across visual design motion design interaction patterns and scalable design systems across desktop and mobile platforms.

• Data-Informed & Action-Oriented: Ability to leverage behavioral data and user research methodologies to evaluate interactions paired with the strong intuition needed to move forward confidently in the absence of data.

• Executive Communication & Storytelling: Outstanding communication facilitation and storytelling skills with a proven ability to articulate design rationale clearly and influence strategy across executive partners.

Suggested Skills:

• Product Thinking

• Visual Design

• Interaction Design

• AI Prototyping 

• Data Literacy

• Storytelling

• Leadership

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The pay range for this role is $126000 to $207000. 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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