Business Operations, Associate - LinkedIn Sales Solutions (Product)

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

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.    

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

LinkedIn’s Business Operations team is seeking a passionate, highly strategic, driven, and analytical Associate to tackle high-priority strategic and executional questions on LinkedIn Sales Solutions. You will be a thought partner and adviser responsible to drive objective quantitative and qualitative analysis, operational excellence, and strategic insights. This role will be collaborating cross-functionally across Product, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Product Marketing, Business Development, and more to drive valuable customer experiences and metrics impact. This is a great role for someone who enjoys thinking both analytically and creatively, with an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to work independently to drive outcomes. The ideal candidate is highly proactive, strategic, communicative, empathetic, and analytical.

 
Responsibilities: 

• Maximize business performance and customer value: Develop in-depth understanding of what drives sustainable growth within LinkedIn Sales Solution, and leverage research and analytical insights to drive future direction 
• Performance management: Understand product performance through dashboards and data that you create or gather, and drive cross-functional resolutions to operational issues 
• Forecast performance: Create and manage forecasting models for products, initiatives and the broader LinkedIn ecosystem, in close collaboration with Product teams 
• Distill direction: Lead analytical efforts in an unstructured environment to identify product insights and improve decision-making across various stakeholders
• Create connective tissue: Work with and share knowledge among various functions, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Data Science and Executive teams 
• Be an expert: Serve as an expert on the business drivers for leadership in Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Finance, International Managers, and Executives 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, engineering, math, statistics, physics, computer science or related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• 2+ years of work experience at a management consulting firm, investment bank, private equity / venture capital firm and/or technology company

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Practical experience / Content-specific: Experience with R&D teams (especially related to B2B / SaaS products) and Product BizOps
• Passion for Internet products and technologies: A desire to live and breathe product and change the trajectory of the company.  
• Highly analytical: experience decomposing and solving real world business problems, ideally building/using advanced Excel models.  SQL a plus 
• Natural problem-solver: comfortable with data and ambiguity, and able to both delve into the details and engage meaningfully on the overall strategy 
• Effective communications: Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations 
• Initiative and ownership: Ability to act with limited oversight on day-to-day basis, balancing multiple priorities 
• Proactive and passionate: Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources and delivering results in challenging situations 
• High-energy, team-first attitude: Motivated to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment to help our growing business 
• Executive presence: Experience working closely with senior executives to solve challenging business problems; Ability to credibly and compellingly present and debate recommendations with senior leadership

Suggested Skills: 

• Performance Management 
• Strategy
• Data-Driven Analysis
• Driving execution

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range