Senior Data Scientist, Strategy & Insights

About the role

LinkedIn is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead ambiguous, high‑impact problems that shape product strategy and drive economic opportunity for members. You will define long‑term retention and marketplace value metrics, evaluate AI‑native features, and partner closely with product managers and engineers to turn insights into roadmap decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Design and execute data‑driven experiments and causal analyses to test new product ideas and go‑to‑market strategies.
• Evaluate A/B testing and causal tooling, collaborating with Applied Sciences to create robust test protocols.
• Leverage AI tools in daily workflows to increase productivity and assess AI/LLM system performance.
• Translate business problems into data‑verifiable hypotheses and develop models that uncover metric drivers.
• Prototype data solutions and work with engineering to operationalize scalable tools for internal customers.
• Embed data‑science best practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Required profile

• Strong statistical intuition and experience solving open‑ended, product‑focused problems.
• Proven ability to work independently and diagnose issues within AI/LLM systems.
• Excellent collaboration skills with product, engineering, and applied science teams.
• Track record of turning analytical findings into actionable product decisions.

Required skills

• A/B testing
• Causal analysis (including panel analysis)
• AI/LLM systems
• Statistical modeling and data‑science toolkits