Associate Product Builder (APB) - Rotational Program

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 and where everyone can succeed. Join us to transform the way the world works.

This role will be based in Mountain View, CA or San Francisco, CA. 

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 primarily performed from a LinkedIn office on specific days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

At LinkedIn, we’re redefining what work looks like in the new era of AI. From how professionals grow their skills to how they find opportunity, connect, and create, LinkedIn sits at the center of the biggest shift the workplace has seen in decades. 

The Associate Product Builder (APB) Program is your chance to be part of that transformation, working in a brand new role as an Associate Product Builder - a blend between Product Manager, Designer and Engineer. This full-time, two-year program is for early-career builders who want to launch products from inception to launch. You’ll help drive a small, AI-native team with engineers, designers, and mentors, and you’ll build products that solve real problems for LinkedIn’s global member base.

We’re hiring builders with a demonstrated track record of delivering product value. Ideal candidates have already launched something real and can articulate their thinking across design, product, and tech. Whether your foundation is in engineering, design, business, or product, what matters most is that you’re curious, hands-on, and serious about building.

This is more than a job. It’s your chance to help shape the future of work.

What You’ll Do

• Own a user problem from insight to launch, turning needs into simple, high-impact solutions

• Define goals, set OKRs, and use data and feedback to iterate quickly

• Prototype UIs, leverage AI, and work side-by-side with engineers to bring ideas to life.

• Think like a founder: Drive strategy, identify partnership opportunities, and prioritize roadmaps

• Collaborate across disciplines to ship features that create real value for members

• Learn from mentors across product, engineering and design as you grow your full-stack craft

Required Qualifications

• Built and shipped a product or feature used by real users. This could be a budgeting app, a habit-tracking mobile app, recipe-sharing website, or anything you built that real people have used.

• Completed a B.A./B.S in a technical or product-related discipline by December 31, 2025 OR equivalent experience 

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines including product, design, and engineering

• Demonstrated experience showing your product intuition, user-centered design and proven impact

• Fundamental knowledge of programming and AI 

• Strong proficiency in tools like GPT-4, Replit, Cursor, Figma Make, or similar Familiarity with front-end tools like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or design systems

• Leadership in team-based projects, student orgs, hackathons, or entrepreneurial work

Suggested Skills

• Product Management
• Product Design
• Engineering

You will benefit from our culture

We 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. The pay range for this role is $126,000 to $207,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors 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 additional 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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