Principal Product Designer - Admin Platform Experience

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. 

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.

Shape the future of enterprise self-service at LinkedIn. We're looking for a Principal Product Designer to lead the vision for Admin Center — the control plane millions of admins use to manage their LinkedIn business. If you thrive on turning complex, console-style admin experiences into intuitive, self-service products that cut support volume and customer effort at scale, this is your platform.

You'll join the LinkedIn Business Platform Design team, part of LinkedIn's Online Moneytization and Go-to-market organization. Admin Center is the control plane that every LinkedIn Admin, Decision Maker, and End User relies on to activate, manage, and prove the value of their LinkedIn products. As we scale Admin Center into a true platform spanning LinkedIn’s line of business, we need a Principal Product Designer to set the design vision for how millions of admins manage their business on LinkedIn, turning a scattered, support-heavy experience into a self-service, insight-driven product that reduces customer effort at scale.

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 admin and customer insights, design patterns, and business goals – someone who can define the end-to-end vision for how businesses onboard, manage, and grow on LinkedIn. You will partner and collaborate closely with product management, engineering, user research, UX writing, data science, and field/support teams across multiple lines of business. 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:

• 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

Application Requirements:

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

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 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

Suggested Skills:

• Product and System Thinking

• Design Strategy

• Visual Design

• Interaction Design

• Storytelling and Leadership

Additional Information

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