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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.\nJoin us to transform the way the world works.\n Location:\nAt LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.\nThis role will be based in Sunnyvale CA, Bellevue WA, New York NY, or Remote.\nTeam Overview:\nThe Flagship Growth Data Science team focuses on accelerating LinkedIn Growth with strategic and actionable insights and measurement in close collaboration with the rest of the Growth R&D team. System Insights DS team focuses on deepening understanding of and identifying opportunities in the intricate AI systems across Flagship. 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Beyond product ops & strategy and experimentations, this individual will also be leading initiatives across AI model diagnostics & enhancements, LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, and productivity improvements through AI-powered tooling.\nAct as a thought partner to senior leaders to prioritize/scope projects, provide recommendations, and evangelize data-driven business decisions in support of strategic goals.\n\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members on solution design as well as lead code/design reviews.\n\nDrive org-wide impact by shaping product and business strategy through data-centric presentations.\n\nWork with a team of high-performing data science professionals, and cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities, optimize product performance or go to market strategy.\n\nAnalyze large-scale structured and unstructured data; develop deep-dive analyses and machine learning models to drive member value and customer success.\n\nDesign and develop core business metrics, create insightful automated dashboards and data visualization to track them and extract useful business and product insights.\n\nDevelop and analyze experiments to test new product ideas or go to market strategies. 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Independently craft compelling stories; make logical recommendations; drive informed actions.\n\nEngage with technology partners to build, prototype and validate scalable tools/applications end to end (backend, frontend, data) for converting data to insights.\n\n Basic Qualifications:\n7+ years of relevant work experience as a Data Scientist, Applied Scientist, or Data Engineer.\n\nBachelor or higher degree in a quantitative discipline: statistics, operations research, computer science, informatics, engineering, applied mathematics, economics, etc.\n\nExperience influencing strategy through data-centric presentations .\n\nExperience in SQL, Python, and/or additional programming languages such as R and Scala.\n\nExperience in applied statistics and statistical modeling in at least one statistical software package.\n\nExperience running platform experiments and techniques like A/B testing\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nAt least (3) years of technical, thought, and/or team leadership experience in Data Science, Applied Science, Business Analytics, or Data Engineering.\n\nMaster’s or PhD degree in Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, Economics, Mathematics, or a related discipline.\n\nExperience with manipulating massive-scale structured and unstructured data.\n\nExperience mentoring and providing technical or thought leadership for other data scientists\n\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to synthesize, simplify and explain complex problems to different types of audience, including executives and compile compelling narratives.\n\nSuggested Skills:\nTechnical Leadership\n\nExperimentation & Causal Inference\n\nData Science\n\nCoding with AI\n\nYou will Benefit from our Culture:\nWe strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families. That is why we offer generous health and wellness programs and time away for employees of all levels. LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.\nCompensation:\nThe pay range for this role is $174,000 - $286,000. 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.\nThe 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.\nEqual Opportunity Statement\nWe 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.\nLinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.\nIf you need a Reasonable Accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us and describe the specific Accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.\nFill out an Accommodation request here: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b660a0327d044969abfd7a4e73d15c36\nReasonable 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:\nDocuments in alternate formats or read aloud to you\nHaving interviews in an accessible location\nBeing accompanied by a service dog\nHaving a sign language interpreter present for the interview\nA 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.\nLinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. 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