VP, Corporate Strategy and Development

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.

This role will be based in the Bay Area.

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. 

LinkedIn is seeking a Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Development to enable LinkedIn’s enterprise-wide growth through both organic and inorganic paths. Their leadership will shape LinkedIn’s long-term strategic direction by identifying, evaluating, and framing the next horizons of growth, while driving inorganic growth through sourcing, evaluating, and executing strategic investments, acquisitions, and partnerships that accelerate our strategic roadmap and market expansion. This leader will expansively explore where and how LinkedIn can extend and maximize its impact across our marketplaces and businesses - challenging conventional assumptions, surfacing new strategic options, and providing clear, data-driven recommendations on where to play and how to win. This leader will partner with the executive team and business leaders to ensure that LinkedIn is seizing transformational opportunities and building the capabilities required to scale our vision, mission, and impact globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Market Intelligence – Surface high-quality insights from a deep understanding of industry trends, competitive dynamics, and emerging technologies. Maintain continuous landscape and competitor tracking, leading indicators, and a watchlist of threats and opportunities to enable robust thesis development. Engage directly with the external ecosystem—venture investors, founders, analysts, and partners—to stay close to innovation and identify early signals of disruption.
• Strategic Exploration – Conduct cross-market deep dives and category explorations to uncover greenfield opportunities, new rows of growth, and capability gaps; pressure-test the company’s strategic choices with clear build/buy/partner options.
• Inorganic Growth – Source, evaluate, and execute acquisitions and investments that advance strategic priorities; manage all deal phases, from target identification through Day-1 readiness, integration and tracking of investment performance.
• Executive Engagement – Partner closely with members of the LinkedIn Executive Team to shape the strategic agenda through monthly forums, investment/market briefings, and long-term growth discussions connected to the exec operations calendar.
• Team Leadership – Manage and develop a high-performing team; foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture.

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field 
• 15+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, corporate development, investment banking, private equity, or venture capital 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Strong analytics, financial modeling, and valuation acumen
• Executive presence, exceptional communication, and stakeholder management in complex, cross-functional environment
• Demonstrated ability to attract, develop, and manage high-performing teams
• MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Proven track record leading end-to-end M&A transactions and/or strategic initiatives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Exposure to technology, SaaS, or consumer internet sectors
• Ecosystem thinker that is able to balance unconstrained ideation with structured analysis and objective yet opinionated recommendations

Suggested Skills

• Market Intelligence 
• Strategic Exploration
• Executive Engagement
• Team Leadership

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.    

The pay range for this role is $314,000-$510,000. 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. 

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