LinkedIn is hiring: Principal Product Designer (San Francisco) in San Francisco

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.

Job Description

This role is based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale or New York.

LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and every day millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities, and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the worlds workforce in ways no other company can. Were much more than a digital resume we transform lives through innovative products and technology. At LinkedIn, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works.

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.

About the Team: The LinkedIn Business Platform powers the end-to-end purchase lifecycle for LinkedIns online and fieldsold products. It supports critical business functions across multiple customer types, geographies, and product lines. Designed for adaptability and scale, the platform serves as the foundation for seamless transactions and enables multidimensional growth for the company.

About the Role: Were hiring a Principal Product Designer to lead 01 and platformlevel design initiatives focused on scaling selfserve and AIdriven automation across LinkedIns core experiences. This is a highimpact role that blends system thinking, strategic foresight, and handson design leadership to drive platformization efforts and create cohesive, scalable solutions for diverse user needs and business contexts.

Why join the Product Design team at LinkedIn?

• Designers are strategic partners from vision to launch.
• Youll work with a talented, missiondriven, and collaborative crossfunctional team.
• Our work spans consumer and enterprise experiences, offering diverse growth opportunities.
• Lead Platform Design Strategy: Define and champion a longterm vision that enables selfserve, AIpowered workflows through cohesive platform and system design.
• Drive 01 Product Design: Lead earlystage, ambiguous problem spaces by framing opportunities, defining foundational systems, and shaping first iterations of new experiences.
• Build for Scale: Create extensible, modular design frameworks that support the evolving needs of multiple lines of business, personas, and use cases.
• Align and Influence: Collaborate across design, product, engineering, research, and data science to ensure alignment, consistency, and clarity across platforms.
• Mentor and Elevate: Guide other designers in system thinking and platform design, and contribute to a culture of craft excellence and user advocacy.
• 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.

Application Requirements:

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, humancomputer 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)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven ability to define and drive a bold platform design strategy that supports scalable, selfserve, and AIdriven experiences across complex systems
• Recognized as a subject matter expert in platform and system design, shaping crossfunctional vision and elevating design quality across multiple product areas
• Strong track record of influencing product direction and aligning stakeholders across functions and business lines to deliver unified, strategic outcomes
• Exceptional ability to lead 01 product design efforts in ambiguous spacesidentifying patterns, reframing problems, and building clarity from complexity
• Demonstrated mastery in visual and systemslevel communicationcrafting compelling narratives that guide teams and inspire executive stakeholders
• Strong experience presenting and advocating for design decisions at the executive level, influencing organizational priorities and roadmaps through usercentered thinking

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 $185,000 to $290,000. 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:

Additional Information

Equal Opportunity Statement

We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

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