Starting a new chapter at LinkedIn

I am thrilled to share that I’ve joined LinkedIn to lead the Flagship experience team and this is my second week!

My new role at LinkedIn encompasses the core of the LinkedIn member experience and I am extremely excited about the challenges, learnings, and growth that lie ahead. Collectively, we are responsible for the core product experiences for our members, including Feed, Conversations, Content Discovery, Content Platform, Creator Ecosystem, Rich Media, Events, Messenger, Profile, and Search. We also develop the application frameworks and developer tools that nearly a thousand LinkedIn engineers rely on to bring these product experiences to life. Through this work, we aim to help all professionals advance in their careers, by connecting them with the people and topics they care about professionally.?

As I embark on this new journey, I would like to share some of the fundamental reasons that motivated me to make a career move and choose LinkedIn.

First of all, I am really bullish about LinkedIn's mission. I’m a daily (if not hourly) user myself and I’ve seen firsthand the value that LinkedIn provides. I rely on LinkedIn to build my professional network and find talent. I stay up-to-date about what’s happening in the tech world thanks to insights shared on the platform. I got connected to all except one of my job opportunities on LinkedIn. Now as part of the LinkedIn team, I’m not only benefiting from the product but have an opportunity to improve the experiences for its 810 million members. I feel proud coming to work everyday, knowing that my team and I are creating more economic opportunities for the world, helping people grow their careers through learning and connections, and helping companies build their teams and achieve their goals.?

I also love that LinkedIn is such a unique and interconnected ecosystem. Our consumer product is already very complex, and there are a number of businesses that are built on top of and interact with the consumer product. It’s fun and challenging to optimize for a multi-sided platform and I'm excited to work with the team to continue leveraging machine learning to drive innovations. Furthermore, it’s fascinating to explore new product and technical directions to solve emerging problems for our members, especially in this post-pandemic world where changes are constant, and flexibility, virtual interactions, and remote productivity have become the new standards in professionals’ everyday lives.?

Most importantly, I'm sold on LinkedIn's culture and people. I believe a company's culture is largely influenced by its product, and that's 100% what I'm experiencing at LinkedIn. I've not seen a hiring manager at Erran Berger’s level who is so dedicated, thoughtful, and empathetic and I already learned a ton from him before even officially joining the company. Every partner I talked to throughout the interview process has a strong desire to collaborate and make others successful. Similarly, the executive team is committed and eager to attract and invest in talent. Overall, the entire hiring team showed so much care and thoughtfulness and made me feel genuinely valued and humbled at the same time. With a team like this, there is nothing we can't achieve.

Career changes can be daunting and mind-racking, because they often require a lot of time, conversations, back and forth thinking, and difficult tradeoffs. However, when the right opportunity comes along, you just know it in your heart because you feel connected to the mission and the people. I’m thankful to have such an opportunity and am looking forward to helping make LinkedIn better for all of you who are reading this post. Onto the next chapter now!