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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
The role is open to San Francisco, Chicago, New York City, or Detroit dependent upon where the candidate is currently located.
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.
Searching for your dream job? At LinkedIn, we strive to help our employees find passion and purpose. Join us in changing the way the world works. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology. We are looking for a Sales Leader to join our global LinkedIn Marketing Solutions team as a Manager within the Online Sales Organization (OSO)’s New & Emerging Business team. OSO is a fast-paced, innovative team that is transforming how advertisers connect and build relationships with their customers.
You will lead a team of Account Executives and Client Solutions Managers who are responsible for consulting with Startups and other high-potential companies who are new to our ad platform, helping them achieve their growth objectives by utilizing best-in-class products and services. Your team helps to ensure their long-term success in our ecosystem with LinkedIn’s full-funnel Marketing Solutions products.
Your goal is to grow Marketing Solutions sales revenue. You will live the LinkedIn Culture and Values, help build and grow the team, work with the management team to set strategy and go-to-market, and create a strong operational infrastructure that sets the business up to scale. You will also coach Account Executives and Client Solutions Managers on value-forward selling. You will coach and develop your team’s skills and career. Finally, you will partner closely with Go To Market Operations, Marketing and Sales Enablement teams.
Responsibilities:
Inspire a Team - The successful Sales Manager is a strong People Leader with an aptitude for Sales and Operations. You will act as a coach to the team and help your ICs develop their skills and careers. You will proactively identify growth opportunities for the team and business. You will influence relevant internal stakeholders to drive innovation and performance excellence while keeping your clients’ best interests in mind. You will act as an internal advocate for your team to ensure they are successful. You will identify and evangelize best practices for go-to-market and team operations. You will work on team and business projects as needed.
Drive Engagement - Coach your team to establish trusted relationships with our clients by providing high quality customer engagement activities (consultative meetings, training, quarterly business reviews, events).
Drive Revenue and Results - Proactively identify growth opportunities for the business, team, and our clients. Launch new ideas and iterate until you find the right recipe for success. Being able to influence and develop others without direct reporting relationships is critical. The Sales Manager will be on a quarterly sales compensation plan.
Elevate the Overall Customer Experience - We place great emphasis on delivering exceptional customer experience and it is the job of the Sales Manager to make sure we support our customers’ business with excellence. We want our customers to want to work with us because they love our products and doing business with us.
Invest in the Team - We have very strong teams here at LinkedIn. One of the greatest things about working in Sales at LinkedIn is the people you will work with. We place emphasis on growing and finding success in the job by learning from one another’s experiences and actively working to improve the team. Being compassionate leaders, inspiring others, being open, honest and constructive are all part of our culture. Making fast, high-quality decisions is essential. Work is hard but fun and you’ll love this experience.
Excellent communication skills including active listening, written and verbal across all channels.
Partner closely with TA on AE and CSM hiring and recruiting.
Strengthen the Company - We expect our Sales Managers to act like owners and have an impact outside of the core sales function by demonstrating leadership, providing leverage and producing results to help u
About the Company
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
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