The document provides referral profiles for common roles at LinkedIn, including the basic and preferred qualifications for each role. It summarizes the roles and levels LinkedIn is currently hiring for in areas like Campus, Global Solutions Organization (GSO), Engineering/Operations (ENG/OPS), and Product. For each role, it lists target companies whose employees would be a good fit and provides example referral profiles. All referrals are asked to meet certain standards around qualifications, endorsement, and being within the top 10% of talent known.

2. Employee Referral Profiles
Not sure which roles are open?
Wondering what roles your team is hiring for now?
In GSO and have a referral for Engineering?
In GTO and have a referral for Product?
External postings: Linkedin.com
Internal postings: Jobvite and HireIN
Check out the employee referral profiles on to guide you to the
most common roles open, experience required and target
companies we want talent to come from.
Before you make a referral ask yourself:
Does my referral meet the basic qualifications and possess many
of the preferred qualifications?
Is this the top 10% of talent I know?

3. Referral Profile - Campus
Role Basic Qualifications Preferred Qualifications
Target Prior
Intern Co.
Undergraduate/Masters/P
HD
Software Engineer
• BS/MS/PHD Computer Science in
progress
• Must graduate in Winter 2015 or Spring
2016
Sample profile: Brian Chang
• Java, CSS, Hadoop, Python • Salesforce
• Google
• Twitter
• Facebook
Undergraduate
Non-Technical
• Must graduate with Bachelors degree in
Winter 2015 or Spring 2016
Sample profile: Jonathan Jackson
• Leadership experience strongly preferred
• Volunteer/mentorship/group experience
• Google
• Facebook
• Salesforce
• Box
MBA • Must graduate in Winter 2015 or Spring
2016
Sample Profile: Rachel Krall
• Top 20 MBA School strongly preferred • Google
• Facebook
• Bain, BCG
• McKinsey
All referrals should have an endorsement from a LinkedIn employee with detailed recommendation of their
capabilities and demonstration of a LinkedIn value.
**Best time to refer because of highly competitive landscape
is September-October for Fall season and January-March for Spring season.
Quality over quantity is preferred.
Ask yourself: “Is this referral within the top 10% of talent I know?”
Campus is hiring undergraduate, graduate and MBA interns. In addition, we are also seeking
recent graduate candidates for early in career positions.
Please make a referral to a specific opening and TA commits to reviewing and responding within 10-14 business days.

4. Referral profile - GSO
Role Basic Qualifications Preferred Qualifications
Target
Companies
Account Executive • 3-5 years of sales experience
• Proven track record in new business
acquisition.
• Enterprise sales experience in software or
SAAS
• In house recruitment and/or agency
experience
• 500+ connections ( LSS specific )
• Salesforce
• Box
• Oracle
• Inside View
Enterprise Relationship
Manager
• 3-5 years of sales experience • Proven track record growing existing
business
• Consulting or SAAS background
• Google
• ADP
• Thomson
Reuters
Account
Executive/Account Director
(LMS)
• 5 years+ of sales experience working with
the major media buying agencies
• Solid understanding of digital and
marketing solutions
• Strong relationship management
capabilities
• Publisher or agency experience
• Yahoo!
• Google
• Publicis
• GroupM
Sales Development
Specialist
• 6 months -1 year work experience post
grad.
• Top 25 school
• Pervious sales experience
• Oracle
• Salesforce.com
• Twitter
Sample profiles: Larry Gould , Sukumar Ramanathan, Danny Staub
All referrals should have an endorsement from a LinkedIn employee with detailed
recommendation of their capabilities and demonstration of a LinkedIn value.
Ask yourself: “Is this referral within the top 10% of talent I know?”
GSO is hiring relationship managers, business leaders, account executives and recruitment product consultant roles at all levels.
The roles above represent the most common roles open in NAMER, EMEA and APAC.

5. Referral Profile – ENG/OPS
Role Basic Qualifications Preferred Qualifications Target Companies
Software Engineer, Applications
(Back-End)
• B.A./B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related
technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ months of experience in software design,
development, and algorithm related solutions.
• Programming experience in Java, C/C++, C#, Python,
and/or Ruby.
• Experience developing user-facing software.
• Experience engineering software systems of medium-
to-large scope and complexity.
• Development experience designing object-oriented
JavaScript. Knowledge of web libraries and
frameworks such as jQuery, YUI, etc.
Google, Facebook
Salesforce, Twitter, Microsoft,
Amazon, Oracle, Netflix
Tools Engineer
(Individual contributors and
managers)
• B.S. Degree or higher in Computer Science or related
technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, or any
other dynamic language.
• Knowledge of Internet protocols and network
programming.
• Experience working in a Unix environment (Linux
preferred).
• Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems and
client-server arc.
(See above)
Software Engineer,
Systems/Infrastructure
• BA./B.S. Degree or higher in Computer Science or
related technical discipline, or related practical
experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with object-
oriented programming languages.
• Experience building distributed, Internet-scale
systems.
• Experience building and applying frameworks for one
or more of the following: caching, queuing, RPC,
parallelism, and/or distributed knowledge.
• Thorough knowledge of multi-threading, concurrency,
and parallel processing.
(See above)
Site Reliability Engineer for
Mountain View
(Individual contributors and
managers)
• UNIX/Linux systems knowledge/administration
background.
• Trouble-shooting skills that span systems, network
(TCP/IP), and code
• Programming skills (we like Python, Perl, Ruby,
Java/Scala, or C).
• 5+ years in a UNIX-based large-scale web operations
role.
• Experience with web-based Java/J2EE architectures
and JVM configuration.
• Python experience, specifically for systems
automation.
Google, Facebook, Twitter,
Netflix, Red Hat
All referrals should be entered into HireIN including a detailed recommendation of their capabilities and demonstration of a LinkedIn value.
Quality over quantity is preferred. Ask yourself: “Is this referral within the top 10% of talent I know?”
ENG is hiring roles at all levels. The roles above represent the most common roles open.
Please make a referral to a specific opening and TA commits to reviewing and responding within 2-3 business days.

6. Referral Profile – Product
Role Basic Qualifications Preferred Qualifications
Target
Companies
Product Manager
(Associate through
Director level)
• Product management experience for
consumer web products
• Shipped at least one successful product
• Solid educational background
• Strong career growth
• Entrepreneurial
• MBA
• Google
• Facebook
• Air BNB
• Dropbox
Business Development
Manager
• Business development (BD) experience
for successful companies in relevant
industries (consumer web, enterprise)
• Quantifiable success sourcing & closing
partnership deals
• Product and/or monetization partnership
experience
• MBA
• Entrepreneurial, ability to work in start up
environment
• Strong written and verbal skills
• Creative Problem Solving
• Google
• Facebook
• Dropbox
• Flipboard
Partner Manager • Partner management experience for
successful companies in relevant
industries (consumer web, enterprise)
• Product and/or monetization partnership
experience
• Solid educational background from top tier
school
• Familiar with analytical tools
• Detailed oriented
• Google
• Facebook
• Dropbox
Sample profiles - Product Manager: Will Sun, Sachin Rekhi, Tomer Cohen, Gyanda Sachdeva, Christian Sutherland-Wong
Business Development Manager: Oliver Hsiang Partner Manager: Jane Ng
All referrals should have an endorsement from a LinkedIn employee with detailed
recommendation of their capabilities and demonstration of a LinkedIn value.
Quality over quantity is preferred. Ask yourself: “Is this referral within the top 10% of talent I know?”
LinkedIn is hiring product managers, user experience design managers and individual contributors at various levels.
The roles above represent the most common roles open in product functions.
Candidates with excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong leadership ability and from
successful consumer web or mobile companies are strongly valued. Target companies above are for guidance only.
Please make a referral to a specific opening and TA commits to reviewing and responding within 2-3 business days.