Job 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.

This position is based in Dublin.

Please note: this working days for this role may include either/or Sunday - Thursday or Tuesday - Saturday.

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. 

In this role, you will help monitor and evaluate executive and company mentions across social and public channels, identify emerging risk signals, and support response efforts for issues that may impact LinkedIn’s reputation, community trust, or member experience. You will contribute to activating strategic response processes for high-impact issues and support coordinated incident response across internal stakeholders.

You will work closely with R&D, Legal, Communications and Support partners to assess risk, recommend appropriate escalation pathways, and guide resolution strategies that support executive leadership and reinforce member trust. As part of this work, you will help manage high-risk escalations and incidents across internal teams and external partners, ensuring responses are thoughtful, timely, and aligned with LinkedIn’s brand voice and values.

Responsibilities:

Case Management & Triage

• Serves as an escalation contact, assessing urgency and severity using a structured case severity matrix and identifying nuances or trends beyond the immediate case.

• Triages cases, routing to and engaging with multiple senior partners (e.g., Executive Escalations & Engagement seniors & leads, Trust & Safety, Product, or Legal) to inform outcomes and resolutions.

• Manages end-to-end resolution for moderate-severity escalations, escalating cases involving legal and data privacy concerns.

• Executes service recovery initiatives to strengthen relationships with members/customers who have experience significant disruptions.

Privacy, Security, and Compliance

• Independently applies regulations, data privacy laws, and security standards to complex case resolutions, ensuring compliance and a positive member experience.

• Proactively investigates and escalates potential compliance violations through analysis, providing Legal and Policy partners with actionable insights.

• Maintains fluency in evolving trust, safety, and social media compliance regulation best practices, contributing to team knowledge-sharing and process refinement.

Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement

• Proactively identifies gaps, opportunities for improvement, and inefficiencies in existing playbooks and processes, recommending targeted improvements based on case insights.

• Contributes to the design and rollout of new playbooks, response strategies, and workflows that impact consistency and efficiency across their team and other teams.

• Leads small-scale projects and pilots (e.g., proactive casework, premium, flagship) to test and improve overall escalation handling and customer experience, providing analysis of customer impact and outcomes.

• Shares learnings from process improvements with team members and partners, informing adoption of best practices across teams.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) & Trend Identification

• Independently analyzes escalation signals and trends, distinguishing between systemic and one-off issues with precision and insight. Collaborates closely with team leads, seniors, and cross-functional stakeholders to inform targeted policy or process changes globally.

• Anticipates emerging risk areas by connecting data from escalations and member interactions to broader concerns.

• Share actionable insights with partners to inform preventative strategies and reduce issue recurrence.

Social Media & External Escalation Management

• Independently monitors and manages member inquiries and escalations across social media platforms (e.g., X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, community forums, third-party sites, etc.), recognizing nuanced risks and emerging sentiment shifts earlier in the cycle. Maneuvers complex or sensitive member/customer interactions, ensuring responses are empathetic, solutions-focused, and strategically preserve brand reputation in high-visibility contexts.

• Proactively surfaces and contextualizes potential PR, brand reputation, or compliance risks, collaborating with Legal, PR, and Trust & Safety to inform appropriate response strategies.

• Tracks and documents escalations to identify recurring issues, contributing actionable insights that inform improvements to proactive engagement strategies.

• Stakeholder Collaboration & Crisis Management

• Independently manages stakeholder communication, ensuring that complex case resolutions are conveyed with clarity and empathy.

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams to support alignment and timely resolution in sensitive or high-profile cases globally. Proactively coordinates with engineering, technical, and product teams to troubleshoot and anticipate recurring defects, surfacing insights that reduce future impact.

• Identifies and escalates emerging brand risks with an early analysis of potential scope and impact, assisting in proactive interventions.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of experience in trust & safety, executive escalations, social media support, corporate communications, customer experience operations, or related field

OR

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, or related field AND minimum 1 year of experience in trust & safety, executive escalations, social media support, corporate communications, customer experience operations, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in trust & safety, executive escalations, social media support, corporate communications, customer experience operations, or related field

OR

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, or related field AND 2+ years of experience in trust & safety, executive escalations, social media support, corporate communications, customer experience operations, or related field

OR

• Master's Degree in Business, Marketing, or related field.

• 2+ years of experience in social media crisis management and brand protection.

Suggested Skills:

• Escalations
• Customer Support
• Trust expertise

Additional Information

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.