LinkedIn headline generator

Your LinkedIn headline is the line under your name. LinkedIn's help page on editing your headline says it shows in search results and can be different from your job title. It also shows beside every post and comment you make, so people see it wherever you show up on LinkedIn.

Say what you do, and optionally who you help, the result you get them, and your proof or keywords. The generator returns eight options in three styles: clear role, outcome-led and proof-led. Each one shows its length against the limit, and the one you pick shows on a profile preview.

The headline box takes up to 220 characters, including spaces. LinkedIn's help pages don't print the number, and older guides still say 120, the limit before 2020. The tool counts each option against 220. If LinkedIn's box ever stops you sooner, the box wins.

You rarely need all of it. LinkedIn shortens the headline beside comments and in search, so the first few words carry the most weight. Put what you do and who you help first, and details after.

If clients hire you for what you know, your headline should tell a stranger what you do and for whom. "Partner at [Firm]" says where you work. "Employment lawyer for HR leaders at growing companies" says who should talk to you.

Use the words your clients would search for, not internal titles. Add proof only when you can stand behind it: a credential, a specialty, a number you can back up. Skip words like passionate, guru or results-driven. They take space and say little.

The generator answers in one step with AI. It writes from what you type and nothing else: it doesn't read your LinkedIn profile, and it drops any option that uses a number you didn't give it, so it can't add years, clients or results you don't have.

Visitors get three free AI runs a day without an account. Signed in, the tools don't use credits: free accounts get 20 runs a day, and paid SlideDrift plans include a monthly allowance.

Read each option before you use it. The tool suggests wording; you know your work.

What you do: fractional CFO. Helps: founders of seed-stage SaaS companies. Result: a cash plan they can raise on. Proof: ex-Big Four, 40+ startups. Output: eight headlines, from "Fractional CFO for seed-stage SaaS founders" to proof-led options that use only the proof given.

What you do: employment lawyer. Helps: HR leaders at mid-size companies. Output: clear-role and outcome-led headlines, and proof-led ones built from your specialties, without invented numbers.

A headline says what you do. Your posts are where people see it. Once your headline is set, SlideDrift turns your notes, articles and ideas into LinkedIn posts in your brand, so what people read under your name and in your posts tells the same story.