Skills

Critical Thinking Salesforce Sales Goal Setting Marketing

Job Specifications

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, 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.

LinkedIn’s Sales Solutions team is dedicated to changing the world of sales through the use of Sales Navigator, our flagship product that connects and builds mutually beneficial relationships between buyers and sellers. As an Account Executive, you will use your strategic social selling skills to educate prospective customers on the benefits and value of Sales Navigator. You will serve as a trusted adviser, share insights and continually seek opportunities for growth to make your customers as strong and successful as possible.

Responsibilities :

Leverage your skills and your customers’ experience to continually evolve our product and the sales process
Manage full-cycle sales processes from sourcing an opportunity to closure
Develop and execute strategic plans for your territory and create reliable forecasts
Consistently over achieve the business and revenue objectives set forth in your plan
Drive revenue by connecting with customers and building opportunities that will make all parties more successful
Work to develop and circulate a set of best practices that will be the foundation of this growing team
Listen to the needs of the market and share them with the Product and Marketing team
Approach the role with a growth-oriented, learning, entrepreneurial mindset

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications :

BA and 2+ years of full sales cycle quota carrying experience
Experience in Salesforce

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience in a SaaS-based environment
Experience using LinkedIn as a sales professional
Demonstrated ability to source, manage and close high-level business-to-business sales
Ability to assess customer challenges, align solutions and read prospective buyers
Ability to predictably forecast and execute on business goals
Ability to use insights and data-driven decisions in the sales process
Ability to effectively build trust-based relationships with senior-level sales professionals
Ability to build consensus at speed among multiple, cross-functional decision makers and influencers in a single company
Ability to simultaneously manage a high volume of opportunities and transactions

Suggested Skills :

Critical Thinking
Intellectually Curious
Goal Setting
Overcome Obstacles
Discovery Process

We may record and transcribe interviews for this role with AI assisted technology. Candidates will be notified in advance and given the opportunity to opt out of the interview recording. Your decision to participate or decline will not impact your eligibility for hire. To learn more about LinkedIn's use of interview intelligence technologies, please visit our candidate portal: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/candidate-portal

Additional Information

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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.

About the Company

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.. Know more