Insights Manager - Talent Solutions
People & HR
San Francisco, CA, USA · San Francisco, CA, USA · United States · United States · California, USA
USD 126k-204k / year + Equity
Posted on Aug 7, 2025
Company Description
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 – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This role will be based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Chicago, or NYC.
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 performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated Insights Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading a team of Insights Program Managers and Data Engineers to transform our operations and data strategy for Scaled Insights.
This role will lead a high-performing data team that bridges strategic data initiatives with hands-on technical execution. This role ensures alignment between business goals and data capabilities, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
Basic Qualifications:
The pay range for this role is $126,000 to $204,000. 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.
The 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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
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.
LinkedIn 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.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable 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:
LinkedIn 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. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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 – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This role will be based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, Chicago, or NYC.
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 performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
Job Summary: We are seeking a highly motivated Insights Manager to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for leading a team of Insights Program Managers and Data Engineers to transform our operations and data strategy for Scaled Insights.
This role will lead a high-performing data team that bridges strategic data initiatives with hands-on technical execution. This role ensures alignment between business goals and data capabilities, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership
- Translate business objectives into a clear data strategy and roadmap.
- Prioritize initiatives that drive measurable business impact.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Data Science, Engineering, Insights SMEs and business stakeholders.
- Guide the team in building scalable data pipelines, AI infrastructure, and monitoring platforms.
- Ensure best practices in data governance, quality, and architecture.
- Stay current with emerging technologies and assess their strategic fit.
- Mentor and coach Insights Program Managers and Data Engineers.
- Foster a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Promote diversity of thought and inclusive collaboration.
- Hold team accountable to True North Metrics (TNM) (e.g. Jira and Refresh SLAs)
- Establish KPIs and OKRs to track team performance and project outcomes.
- Drive agile practices and iterative delivery.
- Manage resource allocation and capacity planning.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in, Data Science, Computer Science or a related field
- 5+ years in data roles (e.g., data analytics, data engineering, data science)
- 2+ years in a leadership role
- Experience aligning data initiatives with business strategy
- Strong analytical, data-driven and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Proficiency in data analysis tools and software
- Master's degree in a related field
- Experience in the technology or software industry
- Knowledge of advanced statistical methods and data visualization techniques
- Data infrastructure design and Architecture
- Proficient in SQL, Python, and data platforms (e.g. Hadoop, HDFS)
- Familiarity with data modeling, ETL/ELT, and modern data stack tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow, Snowflake).
- Understanding of AI and Machine Learning lifecycle and MLOps
- Strong communication and stakeholder management.
- Strong project management skills
- Strategic thinking with a bias towards action.
- Empathy and emotional intelligence in team leadership.
The pay range for this role is $126,000 to $204,000. 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.
The 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.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
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.
LinkedIn 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.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable 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:
- Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
- Having interviews in an accessible location
- Being accompanied by a service dog
- Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
LinkedIn 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. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.