Small Business Owner - Paid Consultant

LinkedIn; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Part time

Job summary

LinkedIn is seeking experienced small business owners to join the AI Trainer Program as expert project consultants on a contract basis. This remote, part-time engagement pays at an estimated rate of $150 per hour, prorated for 45-minute interviews.

Experts will be invited to participate in multiple topics related to outreach, prospecting, conferences, and industry news tracking. Applicants should have 3+ years of owning or co-owning a small business with hands-on hiring and sales decisions, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of owning or co-owning a small business and making hiring and sales decisions.
• Direct, hands-on experience in finding and reaching new contacts, building prospect lists, finding conferences/trade shows, or tracking industry news and related decisions.
• Strong ability to clearly explain workflows, decisions, and reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Participate in ~45-minute, AI-led video interviews and walk through your workflows and decision-making.
• Provide real-world examples and step-by-step explanations during interviews.
• Contribute to tasks focusing on outreach, list-building, conferences, and industry news tracking.

Skills

Small business ownership

Sales decision making

Outreach strategy

Prospect list building

Job description

We are seeking experienced small business owners and co-owners to provide expert insight as part of a project for the LinkedIn AI Trainer Program. No preparation required - just your real-world experience.

This is not a full-time employment position - you will be engaged as an expert project consultant on a contract basis.

Location: U.S.-based experts only

Engagement: Part-time, project-based expert work

Work Type: Remote

Estimated rate: $150/hr (prorated per 45-minute interview)

What You'll Do

You will complete tasks in the form of ~45-minute, recorded, AI-led video interviews, in which you walk through your professional workflows and decision-making.

This project will focus on how you handle the day-to-day workflows below. If selected, you may be invited to one or more of them:

• How you find and reach new people for your business, such as customers or partners, and judge whether your outreach worked
• How you build and verify lists of potential customers, partners, or competitors
• How you find and choose conferences, trade shows, and meetups
• How you keep up with news about your customers, competitors, and industry, and decide whether to act on it

You should only apply if you can confidently walk through one or more of these areas step-by-step, drawing on your own experience, and respond to AI-led interview questions with depth, clarity, and real-world examples.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of experience in owning or co-owning a small business and making its hiring and sales decisions
• Direct, hands-on experience in one or more of: finding and reaching new contacts, building prospect lists, finding industry conferences and trade shows, or tracking industry news, including making the related decisions
• Strong ability to clearly explain workflows, decisions, and reasoning

About the Interview

The interviews are designed to elicit step-by-step explanations of real workflows and decision-making processes, with an emphasis on detailed, experience-based responses rather than high-level summaries.

This is a project-based engagement. Selected participants will be paid for completing recorded AI-led video interviews; hourly rates are estimates based upon anticipated time of completion. Participants will control their own schedule, provide their own tools to complete the interviews, and may participate in other opportunities as they choose.

Once you complete an interview, we'll send your video recording and transcript, along with AI-generated insights, to the internal research team and AI lab partner. This data will be used to generate a structured list of tasks associated with your profession and for AI model improvement.

Please do not share any confidential, proprietary, or personal information.

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