Staff Product Designer

Posted on: 
December 13, 2024

Company Description

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 in transforming the way the world works.

Job Description

At 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. This role will be based in Bangalore. 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. 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
  • We’re equipped with the best design tools in the business, including Figma, Principle, and Miro
  • A trusting, open environment helps us do our best work…and we have fun together!

We’re looking for a designer who leads 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, and data science. Designing for the world's workforce takes a diverse, empowered team — come be a part of ours. Learn more about our design community at design.linkedin.com

Responsibilities

  • Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of the user-centered design process
  • Create and deliver vision by leveraging cross-functional partnerships
  • Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements
  • Work with web developers and engineers to deliver final products

Application Requirements

To be considered for this position, you must include your portfolio, website or other samples of work.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • MDes/BDes/ equivalent degree in graphic design, design, communication, human-computer interaction, or related field or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • 8+ years of experience participating in the complete product development lifecycle of web or software applications
  • Skilled in design and prototyping tools like Figma

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong experience in delivering large-scale projects independently; Projects are forward-thinking and shape the future of the business; Subject matter expert who owns a business area
  • Understanding of modern development practices, frameworks, and tools
  • Familiarity with API design principles and documentation standards
  • Proven ability to identify and design for multiple user personas within a platform ecosystem
  • Track record of creating interaction models that work across different platform touchpoints
  • Understanding of developer platform network effects and how design can drive platform adoption
  • Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, consolidate work-streams
  • Experience in building E2E customer experience, Service Design, and Platform Design experience
  • Demonstrated ability to drive strategy and vision for respective projects and teams
  • Strong ability to deliver design solutions for unstructured problems that have many dependencies
  • Excellent ability in visual communication
  • Embraces ambiguity and can transform it into effective, actionable plans
  • Strong ability to contribute ideas that influence product strategy on adjacent teams

Suggested Skills

  • Enterprise Design
  • Platform thinking
  • Visual Design
  • Interaction Design
  • Product Thinking
  • Leadership

Additional Information

India Disability Policy

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit LinkedIn Policy

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: Data Privacy Notice

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