As LinkedIn's Chief Product Officer (CPO), Tomer Cohen Oversees The Teams Responsible For Product for Product Management, User Experience and Design, and Customer Operations. His journey to his C-Suite Role Came after Admaring The Company from Afar.
Cohen Moved to silicon valley in 2008 from israel to study at Study at Stanford University. He Attended a Lecture Discussing The Power of Social Networks In the engineering school with entrepreneurs including mark zuckerberg and linkedin co-founder reid hoffman. While Facebook was the Hyped Platform, Cohen Remembers Being One of the People in the Audience Who was waled by the potential power of a professional social network.
“My LinkedIn Fandom Started There,” He Tells Computer Weekly at the Firm's London Office Near Farringdon Station. “I joined the company later. Current Role Today.
When he joined in 2012, The LinkedIn Platform was associated with the desktop. Cohen Had Alredy Built Mobile Products in the Startup Community and Saw the Growth Opportunity. “We talked about my vision and how linkedIn could be a mobile product. I was asked, 'Why don't you come here and build it?' And that was the start of my linkedin journey, “He says.
Cohen Led the transformation from desktop to mobile platforms and then shifted to work on the company's feed and engagement-focused products. After working in Senior Roles in the Consumer Products Division, He Became Chief Product Officer in June 2020.
“The reason I still love working here, and i'm stil so bullish about the company, is the same as when I was saw reid hoffman back in 2008, which is the power of connecting people can open treminous Oportunities, “He Says. “I can show you how everything we're building aligns with that purpose.”
Exploring New Opportunities
There have been many changes since the company joined the company. LinkedIn now has more than one billion members. The types of engagement on the platform have changed, Too. He says people use the app as a way to grow their careers and their businesses.
“Now you make a living on linkedin talking about your craft,” He says. “There's been an evolution over time. It's been built brick by brick. Superpower and make it simple to understand how linkedin can help you achieve your outcomes. “
Cohen simplified the product as he developed the platform's mobile experience. Then, as he looked to encourage engagement, he focused on helping people share sharing This Decade-Long Experience has involved helping linkedIn transform from what was performed as a job site into some summiting deal.
“Linkedin can be your superpower – and my job, as cpo, is to help you expert that superpower and make it simple to understand how linkedin can help you achieve you out
Tomer cohen, linkedin
“Jobs are a big part of linkedin, and rightfully so,” He says. “But the idea that you can do more on the platform grew over the last decade. That wasn't the case in the past, and i'm proud of how we've made linkedin a product tool that can help you through the day versus smiling transactional you use always fet
Cohen points to some important product developments. His Team Spent Time and Resources Honing The Individual Feed Experience. They also focused on developed pages to allow organisations to create professional experiences on linkedin that focus more on updates and content, and less on basic information.
These product developments have been tailored by gradually learning what works for members. Cohen says a successful cpo thinks carefully about how to turn a company's vision into a product strategy. He gives the example of individual feed experiences at linkedin and how his team explred how the feed could help people create new options.
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He gives an example from his professional life: “I met one of my professors from stanford six months ago, and he said, 'i started sharing things regularly on linkedin adjoet Good way to get my ideas out. Now i'm getting for speaking for speed
Collapsing the stack
Cohen Moved Into The Cpo Role during the coronavirus pandemic. He says the fresh working styles that boomed, such as Hybrid and Remote ApproachesAre still creating an impact today.
“Suddenly, you can get a job anywahere because you can work from anyway,” he says. “That's a big change. We're seeing unprecedented change in terms of Employment. The time constant of change is much green the time constant of response, which means you do not have the luxury of hawing Playbooks to Adapt to the World of Work. And Right Now, Whtherra
Cohen Refeers to LinkedIn Research that Sugges 70% of the Skills required for jobs today Will change by 2030. “That's staggering,” he says. “That's just four-in-a-e-half years, and that's not a lot of time. As cpo, I must think about how to help members Navigate Change Successfully.”
One of the key accelerators for change is Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cohen Says Technology Always Generates New Solutions to overcome challenges at a personal and professional level, especially in a big business like linkedin. However, he sugges the scale of transformation with ai is different, and people must adjust quickly and effectively.
Cohen Refeers to an example from his department. Full Stack Builders (FSB) launched last year And uses ai in product development at linkedin. Rather than a series of discrete tasks, such as designing and engineering, product development is undertaken by one professional assisted by ai services, if AI Services, Including tools that deals And Product Management.
“We have an opportunity to collapse the stack back and say, 'Hey, Development Requires An Idea and Creativity, but it also also alsoeds other things like, how do you do you product, how do you spendc it, how do you spend It? ' We see with fsb that many things can be done with ai, allowing you to push out the frontier of product development, “He says.
“When you zoom out, we Empower people to build them want. And, in our organization, we're allowing people to start doing that work. You're not hired only for a specific role. You can work across the experience to build a product, which was not the case be
INTEAD OF Working with Between five and 10 Teams in Multiple Functions, A full-Stack Product Developer Uses Emerging Technology to Collapse a Complex, Multi-Disciplinery Processes in Stramlined Activity completes by one person. The company Powers this approach with proprietary technology, Microsoft Services and a range of large language models.
“Now I can use ai to say, 'Hey, here's my speech. This is what I want to build. Can you create it for me? Can you design it for me?” And then, from design, you can take it to code.
Implementing Agentic Services
Cohen says this Ai-enabled approach AIMS to Build Agility Into The Development Process to create new, high-quality products. He recognies introducing emerging technology can invoology a significant culture shift for professionals who use these tools daily. However, at linkedin, using ai must be par for the course.
“IT's Everyone's Job,” He Says. “We have an incredible it team. Their job is partly to brings the best tools to linkedin that meet our norms and governance. Now.
We're experience with the idea that you can now work full stack. So, you're not hired only for a specific role. INTEAD, You can work across the experience to build a product
Tomer cohen, linkedin
As linkedin continues to use ai to hone its internal working practices and external services, what will these advances mean for the company and its members? Cohen sugges the endpoint is personalization. Over the next 24 months, he expects the company to develop more tailored tools for users.
“What you need from LinkedIn is different from what i need,” He says. So, how can you give someone the best, personalized experience when they open the app? That capability requires us to build much faster and with Higher Quality, So You're Getting the experience the experience the experience General Experience We're Building Across Our App. “
In Late 2024, LinkedIn Launched Its First Ai Agent to Help Recruiters on the Platform work more effectively. Hiring assistant is designed to assume multiple recruitment tasks, from managing administer tasks to sourcing and engaging with candidates. Cohen says one of the reasons he's in the uk is to help launch the service. He says these early explorers show the potential power of agentic ai,
“With that agentic experience, we can go market segment by segment, and you'll have an agent to complete work on your behalf,” He says. “The AI is doing everything – Finding, Sourcing, Reaching Out and Vetting Candidates. People using the technology alredy see between 15% and 47% efficiency gains. Efficient. “
