What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Enterprise Account Executive - LinkedIn Marketing Solutions position at LinkedIn?
Company Description
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.
Job Description
This position can be located in our San Francisco, New York, or Chicago offices, or performed remotely anywhere in the United States.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.
We are looking for a Sr. Account Executive to join our Marketing Solutions team to continue expanding LinkedIn’s reputation as the top media channel for Technology companies to market to the world’s professionals. As a Sr. Account Executive, you will take a collaborative approach to developing and delivering sales and marketing strategies, prioritizing growing business from new buying groups while your pod partner, the Client Solutions Manager, focuses on growing existing buying groups. The impact of the combined efforts and strength in collaboration will result in exceeding growth targets. You will drive results by forging meaningful relationships, engaging senior level marketing executives, and delivering customer value for both clients and agencies. Internally, we are looking for an individual who will add to our team morale and culture, and who prioritizes collaboration in a team environment.
Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $167,000 to $255,000 (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.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
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.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
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.
Job Description
This position can be located in our San Francisco, New York, or Chicago offices, or performed remotely anywhere in the United States.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. This role may be remote or hybrid. At LinkedIn, hybrid roles are performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. Remote roles are performed from the designated home work location upon time of hire, and any changes to this home work location requires a review of remote status and approval.
We are looking for a Sr. Account Executive to join our Marketing Solutions team to continue expanding LinkedIn’s reputation as the top media channel for Technology companies to market to the world’s professionals. As a Sr. Account Executive, you will take a collaborative approach to developing and delivering sales and marketing strategies, prioritizing growing business from new buying groups while your pod partner, the Client Solutions Manager, focuses on growing existing buying groups. The impact of the combined efforts and strength in collaboration will result in exceeding growth targets. You will drive results by forging meaningful relationships, engaging senior level marketing executives, and delivering customer value for both clients and agencies. Internally, we are looking for an individual who will add to our team morale and culture, and who prioritizes collaboration in a team environment.
Responsibilities:
- Engage and strategize with senior-level executives at client companies or agencies 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
- Be consultative and identify net new buying groups to grow client investment
- Partner with cross-functional teams across Insights, Marketing, Measurement, Content Solutions, Sponsorships, and Agency to collaborate on campaign strategy, activation, and drive toward client goals
- Proactively investigate industry-specific information and trends, providing research and narratives to align with customer needs
- Conceive and pitch creative marketing solutions to advertising agencies and direct clients
- Command, report and forecast sales activity - from prospecting target accounts and contacts, moving opportunities through the sales cycle, to closing deals and renewal, including robust pipeline and accountability and gap planning.
- Update and create sales proposals and manage advertising agencies and marketers
- Generate revenue and hit target quota
- Fully embrace and foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging
- Travel requirements: approximately 20% of the time for team offsite, LinkedIn conferences, and client meetings.
Basic Qualifications:
- BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience
- 7 years of experience in advertising, marketing, media, or business development
- 3 years of direct experience working as a media seller
- Experience building business cases and preparing media ads sales proposals
- Vertical expertise in the technology category
- Familiarity in the B2B ad sales space.
- Ability to develop authentic relationships, removing pressure for key decision makers at national Fortune 1000 companies and top media agencies.
- Experience in prioritizing a book of 8-12 customers
- Demonstrates understanding of internet advertising technology and marketing automation.
- Proven track record of organization strengths, robust proactive action planning, sales operational excellence, and leadership behaviors.
- Experience working with senior marketing leaders (VP ) at technology companies.
- Ability to accurately forecast and develop prioritized account plans to reach your book’s potential.
- Ability to achieve results by understanding the needs of the customer and connecting a customer’s pressures with business and product solutions.
- Ability to storytell with insights and data, applying key learnings to strategic recommendations that address the "so what," leading to next steps and new relationships.
- Paid Media
- Brand Marketing
- Sales Strategy
- Client Relationship Building
- Consultative Selling
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $167,000 to $255,000 (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.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
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.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at accommodations@linkedin.com and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:
- 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
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
Salary : $167,000 - $255,000
