Indeed, veterinarian Jessica Jensen is LinkedIn’s latest marketing director
Jessica Jensen, who has served as Indeed’s chief marketing officer since March 2021, has been named LinkedIn’s chief marketing and communications officer, the company announced today.
Responsible for overseeing global marketing, branding and corporate strategy, Jensen will report to COO Dan Shapero when she assumes her new role on January 21.
Jensen replaces Melissa Selcher, who left Microsoft-owned LinkedIn in May after joining the company in 2016 as vice president of corporate communications. Selcher assumed the position of Head of Marketing in January 2020.
A marketing veteran, Jensen has enjoyed a long and varied career. She led product marketing for Apple and served as director of marketing for OpenTable. Jensen’s resume also includes a five-year stint at Facebook, where she served as head of business marketing platforms, products and insights.
As Director of Marketing for Indeed, Jensen oversaw global brand, communications, product and acquisition marketing. At LinkedIn, her challenges will likely be similar, if not greater, to those she faced in her last post. LinkedIn has 1 billion users and some 65 million people search for jobs on the platform each week, compared to “tens of millions” of weekly visitors to the Indeed site.
Jensen comes to LinkedIn at a dynamic time for the company. Its revenue grew 10% in the first quarter of 2025, and late last year it rolled out an AI-powered feature called Hiring Assistant. But in October 2023, the company laid off 700 employees, citing “changes in consumer behavior and slower revenue growth.”
Even though Jensen doesn’t exactly thrive in chaos, she’s clearly used to it. “I had the great honor of leading the global marketing teams of three companies during times of great crisis (Facebook, a food startup and OpenTable/KAYAK),” she wrote in a LinkedIn post in April 2020. “I have struggled with different elements in each case – and these crises range from financial crisis to political crisis to now a global health pandemic.
Jensen is also known as an advocate for women in the workplace. “The people who are demanding that people come back to the office are largely white, entitled men who don’t take care of children or elderly parents,” she told the Speed of Culture podcast. last year. “Women are the main beneficiaries of flexible working and remote working, because we are the ones taking care of families. »
Jensen received his bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and holds an MBA from the European Institute of Business Administration.
