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 New York City, San Francisco or Sunnyvale.
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.
The LinkedIn Monetization Strategy & Operations team is looking for a strategy and planning lead to accelerate growth across our Marketing Solutions (LinkedIn Advertising) business. This individual will work closely with leaders in our pricing, marketing, sales, and operations organizations to lead the reporting & analysis, planning processes and define monetization strategies. This lead will gather deep data insights to identify opportunities and drive decision making. This role is a high impact, high visibility role within the organization.
If you’re excited about leading the planning process for one of the largest growth programs at LinkedIn, have expertise in data-driven decision making, and want to be part of a company that is redefining how professionals succeed, LinkedIn would love to talk to you.
Be part of a collaborative, world class team that uses pricing as a strategic lever to drive sustainable monetization growth globally for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain financial models for annual and long-range planning process
- Lead 1-2 monetization strategy initiatives and share strategic recommendations with executives
- Identify and prioritize opportunities to accelerate penetration, generate sustainable growth and enable strategic outcomes via monetization strategy
- Create analytical models to size potential future opportunities and evaluate impact of existing GTM initiatives
- Drive process improvements and scaled performance in planning and reporting
- Own forecasting models and updates to Monetization leadership and Sales leadership
- Build productive relationships and feedback loops with Legal, Finance, Sales and Product teams
- Leverage hypothesis-driven analyses to identify and evaluate opportunities
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- BA/BS degree in economics, management science, business, applied math, statistics, finance, analytics, accounting, engineering or related field
- 4+ years in finance, banking, pricing, sales operations, management consulting, or other analytical role
- 4+ years of experience with Excel and data analysis
- Experience with SQL
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other advanced technical degree
- Experience in advertising / platform
- Professional experience in financial modeling, data analysis, and the ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision-making, preferably in the enterprise software/SaaS space
- Proficiency with data analysis and/or visualizations—including directing work in Excel, SQL, Tableau, Power BI
- Strategic and creative problem-solver who loves to tackle complex challenges in a collaborative team environment
- Strong communication skills - storytelling and giving presentations – and executive presence to drive decisions with senior management
- Leadership skills - Ability to inspire and influence cross-functional partners and drive decision making among senior executives
- Experience working with and serving as a trusted advisor to sales leaders (B2B enterprise preferred) as trusted advisor to sales team
Suggested Skills:
- Microsoft Excel
- SQL
- Storytelling with Data
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $102,000 to $160,000. 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.
Additional Information
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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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
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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