LSS -NAMER Sales Director, Enterprise Customer

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 role is posted in multiple countries, including the US. If you apply, your application and personal information will be retained in accordance with our legal retention obligations (for example, we are legally required under US law to retain hiring records for each position posted in the US for at least two years from the date of the hiring decision), which may impact our ability to honor application deletion or personal data deletion requests.  

This role will be based in New York, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago or Toronto.

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.

LinkedIn Sales Solutions is seeking an experienced and dynamic Sales Director to lead our Enterprise Customer business in North America. 

Our NAMER ENT Customers organization is one of the four subsegments under the NAMER Enterprise & Large Enterprise Segment (ELE) collectively responsible for the retention and growth of LSS’s most meaningful customer partnerships across 1,500 customers. Enterprise is a unique portfolio of high growth Enterprise customers who have meaningful opportunity to grow their Sales Navigator programs with a distribution across industries and have some of our largest exiting footprint. The NAMER Enterprise Customer organization includes 7 teams across NAMER of which the Sales Director would be responsible for 6 of these teams; 6 frontline managers & ~40s IC’s.   In partnership with a peer Sales Directors and X-functional partners this group is responsible for developing and executing a strategy to drive >10% y/y growth, while helping our customers unlock value from their LinkedIn investment.  

Key Responsibilities: 

• Build an inspiring vision for the org, create a strong culture of high performance: hiring, developing & retaining diverse talent, creating a culture of inclusion and belonging, coaching, leading through change & managing performance.  ​  

• Set segment-level strategy through a focus on big picture thinking, creative problem-solving, adaptive leadership, decisive prioritization, and strong cross-functional partnership.​  

• Exceed sales targets by tightly managing operational discipline across the teams, rigorous execution of the sales playbook and KPIs, and adapting to the moment.​  

• Lead the segment through change in behaviour and operations in order to grow the business and meet market needs.

• Maintain deep understanding of the LinkedIn and LSS business, customer and market sentiment, competitive landscape. 

• Be customer-focused and serve as executive sponsor for the most important customer relationships. Be a voice and business thought leader for LSS and LinkedIn, both internally and externally facing.​  

• Maintain strong cross-functional partnerships across LinkedIn, with a keen focus on customer success, marketing, enablement, and the product development lifecycle. 

• Establish a communication cadence (upward, down and across) that constructively communicates the needs of the business and the expectations for the org, as well as communicating messages to effectively inspire and drive change. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications​: 

• 8+ years of experience in customer facing & revenue generating roles  

• 6+ years of sales leadership experience 

• BA/BS degree in a related field or equivalent work experience 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of experience in hiring, managing, motivating, and inspiring successful individuals and sales teams, with track record of consistently hitting/surpassing targets 

• Experience within the Sales or Marketing technology spaces  

• Experience formally leading other sales leaders 

• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing high-performing sales teams with proven