Staff Product Designer, Learning

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 to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

This role is based in Bengaluru, India.

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. 

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. 

This role is on our Learning product within Talent Enterprise, helping professionals build the skills they need to grow and succeed in their careers. You'll play a critical, founding role shaping large-scale, AI-powered enterprise experiences, bringing your creativity, leadership, and strategic input to develop new UI/UX paradigms. As an early member of our new Bengaluru learning design team, you'll set the design vision and craft bar for the team, guide and mentor other designers, and own complex, data-rich experiences end-to-end, partnering closely with engineering in-region and design and product partners both locally and in the US.

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

• Guide, mentor, and elevate other designers on the team, setting the craft bar for the group

• Think holistically across the platform to deliver consistent, efficient, and intuitive enterprise experiences

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 

• Skilled at designing data-rich experiences — dashboards, reports, data visualizations, infographics, and data tables — that make complex information clear, credible, and actionable

• Rapid AI Prototyping: Ability to use tools such as Copilot or Figma Make to translate ideas and designs into functional, code based prototypes. 

• Proven ability to design for multiple user personas across a connected product experience

• Track record of creating interaction patterns and systems that scale consistently across surfaces and modalities

• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders, consolidate work-streams 

• Deep enterprise design experience with strong systems and platform thinking, and a track record of creating efficient, simple, and intuitive experiences at scale 

• 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 

• Experience leading, mentoring, and guiding other designers, and setting craft and quality standards for a team

Suggested Skills 

• Enterprise Design, Data Visualization 

• Systems and Product Thinking 

• Visual and Interaction Design 

• Leadership 

• Rapid AI Prototyping

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 https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

Global Data Privacy Notice and Compliance Posters for Job Candidates 

Please use this link to access documents that provide information about how LinkedIn handles the personal data of employees and job applicants, as well as the E-Verify Participation Notice and the Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section Right to Work posters: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/candidate-portal.