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Strategic Account Director, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

LinkedIn, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Strategic Account Director, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

Full-time

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Department: GBO

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

We’re looking for a Strategic Account Director to join our Marketing Solutions Global Strategic Accounts team in showcasing LinkedIn as the premier place for brands to market to the world’s professionals. You will be responsible for developing and delivering a sales strategy that will assist in hitting growth targets by expanding our customer base. You will maximize revenue while producing ROI and brand awareness for agencies and clients.

Responsibilities

Engage and strategize with senior-level executives to demonstrate how LinkedIn can drive revenue to their business

Develop and cultivate deep relationships with senior executive clients at SVP, VP and CMO levels

Interact and collaborate across our global footprint of offices

Proactively provide smart client research and industry-specific information and trends

Conceive and pitch creative marketing solutions to advertising agencies and direct clients

Command, report and forecast sales activity - from prospecting target accounts/buying groups and contacts to closing deals and renewing

Update and create sales proposals and manage advertising agencies and marketers

Generate revenue and hit target quota

Travel requirements: approximately 20% of the time for team offsites, LinkedIn client conferences, and client meetings.

Basic Qualifications

BA/BS degree or equivalent experience

5+ years of experience in advertising, media sales and/or business development

Preferred Qualifications

Experience structuring and managing complex digital advertising solutions

Experience preparing sales proposals, forecasts and account planning

Expert knowledge of how internet advertising technology works and the ability to explain it in ordinary terms

Demonstrated ability to engage Sr Marketing decision makers to grow relationships at Fortune 100 companies and agencies.

Proven ability to successfully drive revenue through the development of long-term strategic relationships

Demonstrated ability to open up new buying groups and new pools of revenue.

Suggested Skills

Selling

Building Relationships

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $248,000 to $379,000 OTE (on target earnings). Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

Equal Opportunity Statement We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

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Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you

Having interviews in an accessible location

Being accompanied by a service dog

Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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