Senior Associate Business Development LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

This role will be based in Mountain View San Francisco or New York City.

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.

At LinkedIn we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. LinkedIns mission is to connect the worlds professionals to make them more productive and successful and our vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our LinkedIn Marketing Solutions team plays a significant role by building products that help marketers reach and engage their prospects with personalized outreach within LinkedIns 1 Billion global members.

The Business Development (BD) team plays a critical role in executing and accelerating our product roadmap and strategy for our Products & Services Marketplace. The BD team is responsible for driving growth engagement and monetization globally through partnerships.  In this role you will proactively collaborate with Product Management to conceive and execute product integration opportunities by articulating partner strategies identifying and executing the right deals and managing partnerships and strategic initiatives in collaboration with other cross-functional teams. The role will be key in driving strategic measurement initiatives to accelerate the next phase of growth for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions business.

We are looking for a business development professional to play a critical role in identifying and growing high-impact partnerships that accelerate our LinkedIn Marketing Solutions business. They will be charged with identifying executing and managing partnerships and strategies based on analyses of market opportunities in the enterprise B2B tech measurement and analytics space. This person will possess relevant partnership experience in the advertising measurement industry measurement subject matter expertise a proven ability to work well cross functionally to define and implement new solutions and an infectious passion for LinkedIn and the B2B space.

Responsibilities

• Defining partnership and program strategies by which partnerships can help grow the business.
• Identifying and building business cases for high potential partnership opportunities leveraging data analysis & insights to develop strong cases.
• Structuring and negotiating agreements with prospective partners working with Legal and collaborating with cross functional-teams to drive decisions and commitment on deal points.
• Managing and optimizing a portfolio of partnerships to grow and support the business at global scale.
• Developing a strong understanding of LinkedIns Marketing Solutions business and helping to influence LinkedIns leadership team on future products and business strategy.
• Synthesizing and sharing relevant ecosystem insights about the digital advertising industry and innovations in advertising measurement with LinkedIns leaders and executives.
• Working with other groups across the organization including but not limited to Sales Product Engineering Partner Engineering Marketing Communications and Legal to drive value through partnerships and visibility of BD activities.
• Travel may be required for this role.
   

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications

• 3 years of work experience in a business development or strategy role.
• Bachelors degree in Business or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience with platform or product partnerships.
• Experience in the digital advertising or marketing industries.
• Experience scaling businesses partnerships and programs globally.
• Experience connecting business opportunities and use cases to the technical and operational requirements needed to execute against them. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in or advising in the B2B advertising and marketing space.
• Experience and interest in Ads Measurement and optimization including knowledge of prevalent industry approaches run by ad platforms customers and 3P vendors and how those solutions influence advertiser decisioning.
• Experience in some type of analytical role (e.g. consulting firm investment bank M&A/Corporate Strategy or Business Operations).
• Interest and excitement about LinkedIns products especially within the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions ability to think strategically about how partnering with 3rd-parties can create compelling new experiences for LinkedIns members and customers.
• Demonstrated ability to perform in an entrepreneurial setting working independently across multiple groups and thriving in a high-pressure and rapidly moving environment.
• Experience leading and collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing different stakeholders across multiple work-streams; works exceptionally well across functional groups.
• Proven project management capabilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Acts like an owner takes responsibility for ones actions and for outcomes related to ones decisions; passionate about the success of LinkedIns members customers and partners.
• Comfortable working under deadlines and producing key deliverables - and having fun in this working environment!

Suggested Skills

• Strategic Analysis
• Partner Management
• Digital Advertising

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $116000 to $188000. 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 Information :

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