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 will be based in New York City.
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.
This role will function as a senior advisor to the Head of Originals, blending creative, editorial, and strategic skills to help drive the successful operation of the LinkedIn Productions team. It will help drive the team’s critical creative initiatives, ensuring that all content, regardless of format, earns the attention of our members and makes LinkedIn their go-to platform for professional growth and development. Given the rapid shifts in the professional world, the role has a clear objective but requires fluidity to meet our members where and when they need us most. The individual in this position must be able to dive into any area of content across the team, understand content needs, and facilitate executive decisions based on changing priorities. This key leadership position is essential for driving productivity and impact, helping turn bold ideas into results.
Creative Execution + Engagement:
- Ensure that all content produced meets the highest standards of quality and credibility, not only setting the bar for the platform but continuously raising it.
- Oversee strategic content initiatives from development through successful execution.
- Connect dots between various creative outputs with a focus on growth.
- Build and execute the playbook for how final content products are structured and produced to maximize audience retention and engagement.
- Help foster a culture of creativity, collaboration, and learning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Content Development: Collaborate with the Head of Original Programming and other team members to develop and executive highly engaging content that aligns with our strategies and goals
- Editorial & Creative Excellence: Provide editorial guidance and ensure that all content meets the highest standards of quality, trust, and relevance. All content needs to be appealing, engaging and resonate with our target audience.
- Audience Engagement: Understand viral content mechanics in order to build and execute the playbook for how final content products are structured and produced to maximize audience retention and engagement (metrics include CTR and AVD).
- Communication and Integration: Act as an air traffic controller, connecting units and workstreams that would otherwise remain siloed.
- Project Oversight: Lead cross-creative team projects, monitor progress, and ensure timely completion.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree
- 15+ years of experience in media/technology with a comprehensive understanding of content creation, storytelling and editorial strategy across a multitude of formats (live, long-form, short-form/social, marketing).
- Experience show running, executive producing, and developing and executing creative strategies.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to distill accurate information on deadline and in context.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to tell stories in elevated and inventive ways.
- Ability to analyze complex situations and develop effective strategies.
- Ability to solve complex problems and orchestrate multiple projects.
- Ability to inspire and motivate teams without direct management authority.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to find solutions.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and situations.
- Ability to provide clear communication and decisive vision.
Suggested Skills:
- Content Production
- Storytelling
- Strategic Thinking
- Leadership and Team Mentoring
- Talent and Executive Management
- Problem Solving and Multitasking
- Agility
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $197,000 - $320,000. 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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
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