Account Director - Online Sales

Account Director - Online Sales [Growth & Mid Market]

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

Location: Mumbai

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 Account Director - Online Sales plays a vital, strategic role here at LinkedIn. You'll focus on the finding ways to enable the team to flawlessly execute their campaigns as well increase our internal net promoter score. This includes providing technical assistance, developing team members, iterating and evolving the work flows, and being the point of accountability for the local team. Additionally, you'll represent the larger organisation for any regional advertiser issues. Patient, smart, adaptable and dedicated, you also possess great timemanagement skills and the ability to multi task. Possessing a high EQ is also vital to success.

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage relationships with our strategic online advertising clients and agencies
• Drive ongoing strategic marketing conversations and provide optimization recommendations to meet client objectives
• Experiment with and codify optimization techniques for your clients to improve performance and drive incremental revenue, while scaling those techniques for the rest of our advertisers
• Frequently and concisely share the progress of internal and external initiatives, including the business impact and recommended next steps
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to build a consistent customer experience, identify opportunities to improve products/features and deliver results
• Drive revenue by successfully upselling & cross-selling
• Develop and execute a strategic plan for your book of business leveraging LinkedIn’s various tool

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 3+ years in digital or media sales

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in managing and customizing recommendations to a large customer base
• Demonstrated ability to drive revenue by successfully upselling & cross-selling
• Ability to assess business opportunities and use data to inform recommendations
• Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines
• Exhibit strong verbal and written communication skills at all levels; a positive client-facing attitude
• Demonstrated self-starter who thrives in a team environment

Suggested Skills:

• Marketing strategy 
• Sales growth 
• Digital marketing 
• Digital strategy 
• Sales  

Additional Information

India Disability Policy 

LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. For more information on our equal opportunity policy, please visit https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/Policy_India_EqualOppPWD_9-12-2023.pdf

Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates ​

Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

Experience Level

Executive Level