Creative Director & Marketing AI Technologist

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive scalable, data-informed creative production and testing for LinkedIn’s marketing assets, with a strong focus on tools, ethics, and cross-team collaboration.

  • Own the process and tools to create assets at scale.
  • Must-have: 7+ years in creative development and marketing design.
  • Standout: Experience leading creative technology strategy, tool deployment, and AI production pipelines.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect the process and tools required to create marketing assets at scale, meeting a high bar for quality & effectiveness.
  • Test and onboard new creative technology to ensure rapid, efficient, and effective production processes -- not just for yourself, but for the creative team as a whole. Co-develop an approach to ethical AI, ensuring LinkedIn takes a responsible approach to privacy.
  • Stay curious about new technologies, platforms, and potential partners that would accelerate our way of getting work done.
  • Bring an attitude of rapid iteration and learning, cycling through the test, deploy, and learn process with increasing speed. Build a deep partnership with the media team to understand channel best practices and test design.
  • Build and deliver high-performing marketing collateral for use in social, display, in-app, and email marketing campaigns.
  • Partner with operations and reporting teams to understand the efficacy of existing marketing, informing strategies for iterative testing.
  • Define and take goals for creative impact and effectiveness, leading measurement of the value of creative as a growth lever for LinkedIn. Goals include CTR, CVR, and yield.
  • Work with internal technology teams to define our approach to asset management, personalization, and data feedback loops.
  • Act as an internal thought leader on the best practices for creative, documenting and distributing the themes we see in creative tests across teams.
  • Partner with our brand and creative teams to ensure that high standards of quality and brand safety are maintained, even as we move fast.
  • Lead with curiosity, getting deep into performance analytics, research data, and experiment results to personally understand how creative is performing.
  • Partner with other creative team members to share best practices, distribute work, communicate timelines, and review work.
  • Adhere to brand guidelines and marketing briefs, using a toolkit to creatively express the message for each channel & objective.

Requirements

  • BA/BS degree in design, marketing, or related field experience
  • 7+ years of experience in creative development and marketing design.
  • 3+ years of experience leading creative technology strategy, including reviewing, integrating, and deploying new tools and processes.
  • 2+ years of experience working with marketing data to inform testing and experimentation, with a portfolio of relevant work demonstrating impact.

Preferred

  • Conversant in multiple marketing channels; with deep knowledge of email, display, social media, and in-product tactics
  • Superior audience-centricity and advocate for the member across the organization
  • Experience leveraging audience understanding to conceive creative strategies across multiple channels
  • Expert in working with business partners to align on marketing messages & creative expression
  • Highly collaborative and a team player who has a persistent commitment to collaborate across teams
  • Portfolio of existing work
  • Scaled Creative Operations
  • AI production pipeline design
  • Performance Creative Strategy
  • Creative Analytics & Experimentation
  • Media team collaboration
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LinkedIn

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..

Founded in 2016
Sunnyvale, CA, US
24K employees (3,633 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1.8B
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$3.2M
Traffic Source Mix
Search
29.7%
Direct
66.9%
Referral
2.8%
Social
0.2%
Paid
0.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~23.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
2,950 (12% of company)
Median Career Experience
17 years
Median Tenure
6.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
9

Funding

Total Funding
$154.8M
Last Raise
$51.6M
Private Equity, 10 years ago

Funding History

  • Feb 2016
    Private Equity
  • Apr 2014
    Series Unknown
  • Dec 2009
    Secondary Market • $51.6M

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