Indeed Vet Jessica Jensen is LinkedIn’s Latest CMO

Jessica Jensen, who served as Indeed’s CMO since March of 2021, has been named Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for LinkedIn, the company announced today.

Charged with overseeing global marketing, brand and corporate strategy, Jensen will report to COO Dan Shapero when she assumes her new role on January 21.

Jensen replaces Melissa Selcher, who departed LinkedIn—a property of Microsoft—in May, having joined the company in 2016 as VP of corporate communications. Selcher rose to the chief marketer’s post in January of 2020.

A marketing veteran, Jensen has enjoyed a long and varied career. She’s led product marketing for Apple and served as CMO for OpenTable. Jensen’s resume also includes a five-year stint at Facebook, where she served as Head of Platforms, Products and Insights, Business Marketing.

As CMO of job site Indeed, Jensen oversaw brand, communication, product, and acquisition marketing globally. At LinkedIn, her challenges are likely to be similar to—if not larger than—those she faced at her last post. LinkedIn counts 1 billion users and some 65 million people hunt for jobs on the platform every week, compared to Indeed’s “tens of millions” of weekly site visitors.

Jensen comes to LinkedIn at a dynamic period for the company. Its revenues were up 10% for 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 “shifts in consumer behavior and slower revenue growth.”

While Jensen may not exactly thrive on chaos, she’s clearly used to it. “I have had the great honor to run global marketing teams for three companies in times of great crisis (Facebook, a food start up, and OpenTable/KAYAK),”she wrote in a LinkedIn post in April 2020. “I have struggled with different elements in each case—and these crises have ranged from financial to political to now a global health pandemic.”

Jensen is also known as an advocate for women in the workplace. “The people that are requiring people to come back to offices are largely white, entitled men, who do not care for children or elderly parents,” she told the Speed of Culture podcast last year. “Women are the major beneficiaries of flexible work and remote work because we are the people who take care of families.”

Jensen earned her B.A. at Amherst College and holds an MBA from the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires.