Sr. Product Designer, Games

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Contribute to an innovative team launching new games, enhancing user experiences, and driving growth for a major product line in a collaborative startup-like environment.

This role can be based in Sunnyvale, or 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. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval. 

We’re hiring for a Senior Product Designer to join the Games team at LinkedIn. This team has been moving quickly launching the new games experience and has already established LinkedIn as a strong player with 6 beloved daily games. This role will work on maturing our playing experience, growing adoption and retention as well as developing new games. We operate like a startup, but with the scale of the world’s largest professional network. 

If you’re the type of designer who thrives just as much in dreaming up and executing crazy ideas as you do in optimizing complex growth funnels, you’ll do well in this role. We’re looking for someone who has experience successfully designing and launching 0 → 1 initiatives, always looks at the glass half full, loves to share ideas, and thrives in organized chaos. Experience building and scaling social/mobile games is a big plus.

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’re equipped with the best design tools in the business and are heavily investing in AI tooling and training for our team

  • A trusting, open environment helps us do our best work…and we have fun together!

We’re 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 world's workforce takes a diverse, empowered team — come be a part of ours.

Learn more about our design community at design.linkedin.com

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Responsibilities:

  • Effectively communicate conceptual ideas, design rationale and the specifics of user-centered design process

  • Create holistic design solutions that address business, brand, and user requirements

  • Work with web developers and engineers to deliver final products

 

Basic Qualifications:

  • BA/BS degree in graphic design, design communication, human-computer 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

  • 5+ years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, web or agency)

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

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in delivering medium to large-scale projects independently or with some support from senior ICs or Managers

  • Capable of influence across the respective business area and regularly engaging in cross-functional discussions

  • Experience in delivering design solutions for unstructured problems that have some dependencies on other products/teams

  • Demonstrated ability of coaching team to more effectively apply design patterns

  • Effectively communicates ideas to the broader organization

  • Experience in solving structured problems that have few dependencies and dealing with a high level of ambiguity

 

Suggested Skills:

  • Product Thinking

  • Visual Design

  • Interaction Design

  • Storytelling

  • Leadership

The pay range for this role is $126,000 to $207,000. 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: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits. 

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