Principal Product Designer, Admin Platform Experience
LinkedIn · Posted Nov 4
Professional networking, job search, recruiting, online learning, and B2B marketing services
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About the role
LinkedIn's global Product Design team advances an inclusive, accessible platform, and this role sits within the LinkedIn Business Platform Design team in the Online Monetization and Go-to-market organization. Admin Center is the enterprise control plane that LinkedIn admins, decision makers, and end users rely on to activate, manage, and prove the value of their LinkedIn products. The Principal Product Designer will set the design vision for Admin Center as it scales into a platform, turning a scattered, support-heavy admin experience into an intuitive, self-service, insight-driven product.
What you will do
- Own and evolve the end-to-end design vision for LinkedIn's Admin Center platform, spanning the full Onboard → Manage → Grow lifecycle for enterprise admins
- Drive holistic design thinking across the platform, ensuring consistency and coherence as Admin Center expands to support various LinkedIn products
- Partner with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous, cross-functional problems into clear design strategy and actionable roadmaps
- Lead growth-oriented design experimentation aimed at reducing customer effort and support case volume while increasing self-service adoption
- Build and evolve scalable design systems and patterns that support rapid, consistent expansion of admin experiences across surfaces
- Mentor and provide design guidance to other designers on the team, raising the craft and strategic thinking of the broader design organization
- Effectively communicate and evangelize design vision and decisions to cross-functional partners and senior leadership to drive alignment and execution
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Design Communication, Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive Design, Visual Communications, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience in the product development lifecycle from conception to launch, including shipping products at scale
- 14+ years of UX industry experience, with demonstrated experience designing complex, enterprise-grade, or admin/console-style products
Preferred qualifications
- Strong experience in providing vision and guidance that helps shape the future of the business; subject matter expert who leads design across multiple products and business areas
- Exceptional ability to influence other product areas across the organization and drive strategy and vision across the business area
- Exceptional ability to deliver design solutions that grow the business area and create new value for members/customers, including measurable reductions in customer effort and support volume
- Mastery in solving unstructured problems that have many dependencies and may have lengthy timelines; seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans
- Have led strategic growth experimentation with cross-functional or cross-product impact
- Experience designing complex admin consoles, identity/access management or self-service platforms at scale
- Exceptional ability in visual communication
- Strong experience in effectively communicating ideas to exec leadership and/or broader LinkedIn organization
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About LinkedIn
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, connecting over a billion users globally to create economic opportunity. Owned by Microsoft, the platform provides tools for job searching, professional networking, B2B marketing, sales intelligence, and online learning. Through its data graph, it bridges the gap between global talent and enterprise organizations.
- Industry
- Professional Network
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2003-05-05
- Location
- Sunnyvale, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $103.5M raised
- 2003-11-01Seed$4.7M
- 2004-08-01Series A$10M
- 2007-01-15Series B$53M
- 2008-06-01Series C$22.7M
- 2014-05-15Post Ipo Debt$500M
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
EVP of LinkedIn and Microsoft Office
President of Platforms and Digital Work
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President & Chief Business Officer
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