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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.

This role will be based in Sunnyvale, CA, San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.

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 Ecosystem Strategic Finance team is seeking an Associate to partner with LinkedIn’s Flagship Consumer leaders in shaping product strategy, monitoring key business metrics, identifying trends, and assessing the financial impact of strategic initiatives. This role will support the Notifications team — Helping to craft long and short term product initiative roadmaps through data driven insights, managing channel performance to understand & optimize product performance, and helping product teams prioritize their roadmap based on impact sizing. A strong candidate is equally comfortable and skilled at crafting a thoughtful plan, and rolling up their sleeves to get it done. We are looking for someone who excels at driving execution across multiple senior stakeholders, demonstrates strong ownership to dig deep into highly technical and complex areas to drive impact, and is highly analytical with strong business acumen. Key partners this role will collaborate with include Product Managers, Engineer leaders, Design leaders, and Strategic Finance partners.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Thinking

+ Contributes to strategy development with business partners, within a limited scope.

+ Begins to validate and execute routine pressure testing of growth opportunities.

+ Operationalizes ideas and develops plans for execution with support from more senior team members.

+ Supports collaborative relationships with other teams and utilizes input and feedback to develop an understanding of their priorities and constraints.

Stakeholder Influence

+ Communicates implications of work (e.g., forecasts, analyses, trends) to management and cross-functional stakeholders with the necessary business context.

+ Leverages insights and data to develop narratives to influence stakeholders with some guidance.

+ Synthesizes problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on issues related to individual work in smaller group discussions.

Execution & Organization

+ Collaborates with cross-functional stakeholders to support the growth of initiatives by providing a metrics-oriented perspective, with some supervision.

+ Communicates with stakeholders to answer a variety of questions.

+ Develops standard workstreams and operational processes according to defined procedures.

+ Begins to identify obstacles within immediate scope and makes recommendations.

Performance Management

+ Supports performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating basic models and forecasts for assigned metrics.

+ Access, transform, and synthesize data from cross-platform data sources and analyze to assess signals, trends, and risks, with some support from more senior team members.

+ Leverages comprehensive knowledge to develop hypotheses using identified signals, trends, and risks.

+ Executes ad hoc analyses to prove/disprove hypotheses and address well-defined business questions, deriving actionable insights from results.

+ Begins to work with cross-functional teams to design experiments to close deviations from targets.

Culture & Values

+ Supports the culture and values of the organization, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging, by collaborating with and helping others and participating in organization-wide events/initiatives.

+ Seeks out feedback and provides constructive feedback to colleagues.

+ Takes advantage of opportunities for career growth and skill development.

Basic Qualifications

+ Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field AND minimum 1 years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications

+ 2+ years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, strategy or growth role within a technology company.

+ Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems, ideally using advanced Excel / SQL skills; able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on higher level strategy.

+ Effective communication skills to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations; ability to credibly and compellingly present and debate recommendations with senior leadership.

Suggested Skills

+ Communication

+ Cross-Team Collaboration

+ Data Analysis

+ Stakeholder Management

+ Strategic Thinking

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $113,000-$120,000.

Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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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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+ 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

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