Staff Product Designer

LinkedIn•Mountain View, CA

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

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 Staff Product Designer role will focus specifically on building and accelerating Trust & Safety systems, both for member-facing frameworks, and internal platform tools. Reporting to the Director of Trust Design, you will operate as a design leader with strong engineering depth—supporting end-to-end experience strategy while personally driving high-fidelity, implementation-quality design, front-end code, and internal tooling that accelerates our work. You will shape how Trust experiences are conceived, validated, and scaled across LinkedIn, especially in complex, high-risk domains. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, Design Systems, and partner teams across the LinkedIn ecosystem to translate Trust patterns into high-quality, accessible, and cohesive implementations. This role requires strong frontend engineering skills, fluency in interaction design, and the ability to navigate complex technical, regulatory, and user-experience constraints. We’re looking for Designers who flex into front-end, and who connect the dots between design systems, interaction patterns, and technical architecture—helping LinkedIn build Trust experiences that are consistent, scalable, and ultimately self-service. Learn more about our design community at design.linkedin.com #LinkedInDesign

Requirements

BA/BS degree in Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Design, or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system or shared UI library
Background in modern frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript/TypeScript)
Experience building user interfaces in collaboration with designers and cross-functional partners
10+ years of experience in user experience design or industry experience (corporate, software, web or agency)

Nice To Haves

Experience establishing design strategy for Trust and Safety systems, particularly with high-risk content and behaviors
Significant experience leading frontend or design engineering efforts across the complete product development lifecycle for complex web or software applications
Proven ability to influence technical and design direction across multiple teams or product areas without direct authority
Strong systems-thinking skills, with experience designing frameworks and abstractions that scale across diverse use cases
Experience leading ambiguous, high-impact initiatives with long time horizons and many dependencies
Track record of setting quality bars and best practices adopted beyond an immediate team
Experience partnering with senior design, engineering, and product leaders to shape strategy and execution
Experience working on large-scale consumer or enterprise products
Deep understanding of interaction design, motion, and state management for complex user flows
Strong accessibility knowledge and experience building inclusive, WCAG-compliant interfaces
Ability to solve unstructured problems with many dependencies, constraints, and evolving requirements
Experience working on Trust & Safety, integrity, or high-risk product surfaces
Strong communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across design, engineering, and product disciplines
Track record of improving product quality, UX consistency, or frontend foundations across teams
Strong experience in providing vision and guidance that helps shape the future of Trust & Safety; Subject matter expert who leads design across Trust departments or multiple business areas
Exceptional ability to influence other product areas across the organization and drive strategy and vision across Trust & Safety initiatives
Exceptional ability to deliver design solutions that protect members while growing the business area and creating new value for members/customers
Mastery in solving unstructured problems in Trust & Safety that have many dependencies, regulatory constraints, and lengthy timelines; Seeks out ambiguity and transforms it into effective, actionable plans
Experience designing for social media products with expertise in social well-being, Trust & Safety best practices, and trauma-informed design
Strong systems thinking capability to create cohesive frameworks that flex and scale across every product surface
Expert understanding of potential abuse vectors and the climate that leads to malicious intent
Ability to balance complex regulatory requirements, business and legal concerns with strong user-centered design principles
Experience creating thoughtful interventions and deterrence mechanisms that distinguish between different types of negative behaviors, member context, and level of risk
Exceptional ability in visual communication for sensitive and high-risk moments
Strong experience in effectively communicating ideas to executive leadership and/or broader LinkedIn organization
Track record of establishing new strategies, teams, and frameworks, then scaling and operationalizing them
Have a website or other samples of work demonstrating experience with Trust & Safety design solutions

Responsibilities

Partner directly with Product Designers to co-create interaction models and systems, guiding design decisions through technical insight and POCs, and ensuring high-fidelity translation into production
Build and maintain frontend components and patterns that support Trust & Safety experiences across multiple product surfaces
Develop interactive, production-ready prototypes to explore complex flows, edge cases, and high-risk user moments before full implementation
Contribute to and evolve shared design systems and UI frameworks to ensure consistency, scalability, and accessibility across Trust surfaces
Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, and Design Systems to align on constraints, tradeoffs, and implementation details
Advocate for UX quality, usability, consistency, accessibility, and performance throughout the development lifecycle
Establish best practices for UI architecture, component reuse, and maintainability within Trust engineering efforts
Support rapid iteration in response to new abuse vectors, harm trends, and regulatory requirements
Help bridge communication between design and engineering by clarifying intent, constraints, and feasibility
Mentor engineers and designers across teams, raising the bar for frontend craft, interaction quality, and design-to-code workflows at a broader organizational level
Lead complex, cross-team design initiatives that span multiple product surfaces, aligning user experience, business goals, and technical constraints
Identify systemic gaps in tooling, frameworks, or design systems and drive durable solutions that scale beyond a single team
Anticipate future Trust & Safety needs and proactively build foundations that enable faster response to emerging abuse vectors and harm trends