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 is a 12-month fixed-term contract on LinkedIn's payroll.

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.

We are looking for a Regional Account Manager to join our Global Clients Program (GCP) in growing and maintaining relationships with our most strategic global customers. You will be responsible for learning the entire suite of LinkedIn's Talent Solutions, understanding how they are used and valued by our customers, and making compelling recommendations for additional investments and renewals in LinkedIn.

You will be responsible for a book of current customers, involvement in large centralized global contracts and outbound activity within the long tail of your portfolio. You will partner with a select group of global clients to identify solutions that can help them achieve their business and talent objectives. Although you strive to meet and exceed quota, you will always act in the best interest of the customer.

Responsibilities:

Develop territory and strategic account plans in collaboration with your Global Client Director (GCD) deliver growth
Apply solutions expertise across our Talent, and Learning product solutions offerings
On a weekly basis, plan and prioritize your book, activities, and meetings to ensure you are focused on your largest opportunities
Understand your customer's business and objectives through detailed discovery
Gain commitment and buy-in of customers and prospects to proactively grow the account off-cycle by selling new solutions, add-ons, and renewals
Invest in meaningful relationships with economic buyers and advisors in your accounts by providing high-quality customer engagement activities (training, quarterly business reviews) on the solutions in which they have already invested
Build custom presentations and demonstrations based on customer defined objectives and goals versus needs
Be open, collaborative, and customer-focused in all communications and transactions with your global account team and clients
Close all orders with the larger LinkedIn investment in mind and provide post-contract support to ensure product delivery and satisfaction
Demonstrate sales operational excellence by using our CRM tracking activities and, most importantly, forecasting
Leverage AI-enabled tools to research accounts, identify stakeholder insights, and tailor outreach and presentations at scale
Use data and AI-driven insights to improve pipeline prioritization, forecast accuracy, and renewal/expansion strategies

In your first 12 months in this role, you will accomplish:

Over-attainment of individual quota targets while understanding how your efforts contributed to the wider account team success
A deep understanding of some of LinkedIn's most complex global accounts, how to plan and prioritize across this complexity and significantly increased business acumen
An understanding of how to manage & deliver to value for long-term partnerships and at the long-tail to support broader account-based objectives

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

6+ years of experience customer-facing roles - including quota-carrying sales, account/relationship management

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong verbal and written communication skills
Extensive experience navigating and selling into large conglomerates and enterprises,
Experience selling to EVPs, CXOs and end-users (in the same sales cycle) in both individual and team sales environments
Experience in solution selling to global/multi-national customers, with complex organization structure.
Experience closing new business and managing existing accounts
Background in working with complex requirements and crafting custom solutions
Ability to translate data and insights into crisp and relevant customer narratives
Demonstrated ability to generate and execute a plan, lead with solutions to problems, not products
Comfort using AI-powered productivity and analytics tools (e.g., CRM intelligence, account research, drafting/summarization) with strong judgment and data privacy awareness

Suggested Skills:

Analytical Skills
Negotiation
Communication
Relationship building
Growth Mindset

Regional Account Manager - Global Clients Program (12 months FTC)