VP, Corporate Strategy and Development
About The Position
LinkedIn is seeking a Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development to enable LinkedIn’s enterprise-wide growth through both organic and inorganic paths. Their leadership will shape LinkedIn’s long-term strategic direction by identifying, evaluating, and framing the next horizons of growth, while driving inorganic growth through sourcing, evaluating, and executing strategic investments, acquisitions, and partnerships that accelerate our strategic roadmap and market expansion. This leader will expansively explore where and how LinkedIn can extend and maximize its impact across our marketplaces and businesses - challenging conventional assumptions, surfacing new strategic options, and providing clear, data-driven recommendations on where to play and how to win. This leader will partner with the executive team and business leaders to ensure that LinkedIn is seizing transformational opportunities and building the capabilities required to scale our vision, mission, and impact globally.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field
- 15+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or venture capital
Nice To Haves
- Strong analytics, financial modeling, and valuation acumen
- Executive presence, exceptional communication, and stakeholder management in complex, cross-functional environment
- Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and manage high-performing teams
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
- Proven track record leading end-to-end M&A transactions and/or strategic initiatives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Exposure to technology, SaaS, or consumer internet sectors
- Ecosystem thinker that is able to balance unconstrained ideation with structured analysis and objective yet opinionated recommendations
Responsibilities
- Market Intelligence – Surface high-quality insights from a deep understanding of industry trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies. Maintain continuous landscape and competitor tracking, leading indicators, and a watchlist of threats and opportunities to enable robust thesis development. Engage directly with the external ecosystem—venture investors, founders, analysts, and partners—to stay close to innovation and identify early signals of disruption.
- Strategic Exploration – Conduct cross-market deep dives and category explorations to uncover greenfield opportunities, new rows of growth, and capability gaps; pressure-test the company’s strategic choices with clear build/buy/partner options.
- Inorganic Growth – Source, evaluate, and execute acquisitions and investments that advance strategic priorities; manage all deal phases, from target identification through Day-1 readiness, integration and tracking of investment performance.
- Executive Engagement – Partner closely with members of the LinkedIn Executive Team to shape the strategic agenda through monthly forums, investment/market briefings, and long-term growth discussions connected to the exec operations calendar.
- Team Leadership – Manage and develop a high-performing team; foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
