LinkedIn Career Discovery
A gamified career-exploration concept for LinkedIn — discover roles you've never heard of, then use your profile + AI to map the skill gap to get there.
Built with Daniel Lee, Namyanzi Edwards, and Muhammed Ali — with mentorship from Jaden Hinton and Pablo Najera.
The idea
A career-discovery feature that lives inside LinkedIn, aimed at GenZ/GenAlpha who don’t yet have a good mental map of what jobs exist or how to reach them. A persistent Locked[IN] button on your profile opens a flow that helps you discover roles you’ve never heard of, then uses your profile data plus AI to map the gap between where you are and a field you’re excited about — Khan-Academy-style progress and % mastery.
The core bet: everything reduces to skills as the connective tissue — a role is a cluster of skills, you hold some of them, a course teaches some, the gap is the difference, and your “fit %” is the overlap.
The flow
Lock in → (Explore or Explain) → Comparison → Your Path, with a streak / leaderboard around it:
- Explore — broad interest bubbles (Creative, Technical, …) you click to reveal careers in that field, for people who don’t know what they want yet.
- Explain — an AI chatbot route into the same space.
- Comparison — weigh roles against each other.
- Your Path — readiness, skill gaps, and a concrete milestone plan.
My role
I owned the Explore page — the interest-bubble discovery experience — and
integrated the full end-to-end flow (AppFlow: Lock-in → Explore/Explain →
Comparison → Milestone) so the separate, per-owner pages became one product.
Stack
Next.js / React / TypeScript frontend talking to a Python (FastAPI) backend over a JSON/HTTP API, with Anthropic (Claude) for the AI guidance (deterministic recommendations as a fallback). Designed against synthetic LinkedIn-style data — ~2,000 users, 207 roles across 21 industries, and 600 courses — specifically to showcase discovering unfamiliar roles.