Job Description

This role will be based in our offices in either New York or San Francisco.

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.

Our LinkedIn Marketing Solutions GTM Strategy & Operations organization is responsible for building the ultimate go-to-market engine to connect our solutions with customer needs. As a GTM Strategy & Operations Senior Associate for the LinkedIn Marketing Solutions business, you will tackle the most critical challenges facing our sales organization - from shaping go-to-market strategy to optimizing operational processes - all with the goal of driving more value for our sales org and our customers. You'll work cross-functionally to uncover insights through data, design scalable solutions, and help our Sales org operate smarter and more effectively.

This individual will act as a close partner and advisor to leaders in the Large Customer North America sales organization and is responsible for helping crack the most important strategic and operational problems facing the business. Success requires pairing technical depth with strong business judgment: taking ambiguous GTM problems, translating them into structured analytical or technical solutions, and using LLMs and AI tools to build scalable, automated solutions that teams actually adopt.

As a GTM Strategy & Operations Sr Associate, you will be partnering with senior sales executives to assess business performance and derive actionable insights focused on driving revenue growth, sales productivity, and customer value. The Senior Associate is also responsible for leading, program managing, and scaling operational and planning processes (e.g. building sales territories, setting sales targets, weekly forecasting, analysing revenue pipeline) in partnership with cross-functional stakeholders.

The Senior Associate should have a strong strategic mindset and communication skills and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive critical business decisions. The candidate should also be able to handle highly sensitive, confidential, and non-routine information, have attention to detail, be open-minded to challenge the status quo, and work on a rapidly changing organization while inspiring excellence from themselves and business partners.

Responsibilities:

• Advise senior sales leaders (Sales VP, Sales Directors) on growing and optimizing their businesses by making data-driven, actionable recommendations to achieve short-term and long-term strategic priorities
• Perform complex data analysis and share insights by leveraging tools like SQL, Tableau, Salesforce.
• Ability to build and ship AI-powered tools - design, develop, and deploy LLM-powered tools that solve GTM problems across forecasting, quota setting, territory planning, segmentation, and performance reporting.
• Automate workflows end-to-end - identify high-value manual processes and replace them with reliable, production-grade automations.
• Lead end-to-end territory planning and quota setting process
• Lead ad hoc and operational projects that have regional or global impact, e.g. optimized territory planning, forecast modeling, process improvement and automation
• Establish strong working relationships with colleagues in GTM Operations and cross-functional teams such as Finance, Pricing, Sales Leadership, Systems & Tools
• Partner with Systems and Business Analytics teams to streamline and automate processes, enhance reporting and dashboarding capabilities, and explore opportunities to embed AI in the GTM Operations and Sales workflows
• Routinely prioritize tasks through ambiguity - something unexpected will comes up

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in sales operations, business operations, management consulting, finance, or an analytical/operational role
• 2+ years of experience operating with Excel
• BA/BS degree in business, operations, engineering, analytics, or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience of hands-on experience with generative AI - including prompt engineering, tool use / function calling, etc.
• 1+ years of experience with Python for building and integrating tools and APIs.
• Ability to leverage numbers and insights to influence & drive sound decision making.
• Experience in communicating effectively and presenting to Senior Executives.
• Ability to build strong partnerships and collaborate with stakeholders.
• Experience working in the Ads Tech or SaaS industry.
• Experience with SQL
• Motivation to stand out from the crowd, disrupting the norm to help their business win.
• Ability to effectively solve complex problems from high priority strategic initiatives.

Suggested Skills

• Systems-oriented mindset: ability to understand end-to-end GTM processes and improve them through automation and analytics.
• Data automation & workflow design
• Problem solving
• Accountability
• Executive communication skills
• Strategic Initiatives
• SQL

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $109,000 to $176,000. 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