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LinkedIn for designers: get your work in front of people who hire

For a designer, LinkedIn works when the people who hire design (product managers, marketing leads, agency directors) see your work explained, not just pretty. Invite those profiles, post the reasoning behind your projects and keep your portfolio on your profile.

By Rodrigo Alonso · A project by Rodrigo Alonso · Updated 31 October 2026

Who to invite on LinkedIn: a guide for designers

Invite the people who commission design in your specialty.

If you work in…	Invite…	At…
UX and product	Product managers, heads of design, CTOs	Software and apps
Graphic and brand	Marketing and brand managers	Consumer goods, food, startups
Editorial and packaging	Product and purchasing managers	Food, cosmetics, publishing
Agencies	Creative and studio directors	Advertising and design agencies

How to set up your audience in Reachvite

Values for each tab of the extension:

Industry: Software development for UX; consumer goods for brand and packaging.
Job title: Product manager, head of design, marketing manager, creative director.
Companies: Brands whose design you can improve and agencies that outsource.
Where?: Your city or the countries you work with remotely.

Reachvite always adds its own filters: real people with 500+ connections, and never 1st-degree connections or pending invitations.

How many invitations a week?

Two batches of 20 a week.

About 40 invitations a week are enough for your project posts to reach people who hire, without spending more than a few minutes reviewing batches. LinkedIn doesn’t publish a fixed number: we explain it in the weekly invitation limit.

Example invitation notes

Notes are optional and capped at 300 characters.

“Hi Lauren, I’m a product designer writing about onboarding in B2B apps. Glad to connect.”
“Hi Mario, I design packaging for food brands and share the process. I’d like to have you in my network.”
“Hi Anna, I help agencies as an identity designer when they need extra hands. Happy to connect.”

What to post so people accept (and remember you)

Case studies with the problem, discarded options and the solution.
Before and after, with the metric that improved.
Processes and tools, with templates the reader can use.

Common mistakes

Posting only the final image without explaining decisions.
Inviting mostly other designers.
Not linking your portfolio in the Featured section.

Frequently asked questions

Does it work for job hunting as well as clients?

Yes. Change the audience: instead of clients, invite design directors and recruiters at companies you like.

Behance/Dribbble or LinkedIn?

Portfolios show your work; LinkedIn puts you in front of people who hire.

How much time will it take?

Reviewing a batch takes a few minutes; the real time goes into posting.

Sources: LinkedIn Help on invitations and Reachvite’s features as of 31 October 2026. Paces are guidance, not official figures.

Pick your audience and let Reachvite send the invitations, in batches you approve.

Add to Chrome ↗

Chrome will ask for access to LinkedIn: Reachvite only works with the audience you choose, never sends anything without your OK and doesn’t read your messages or your password.