Full-Time

Mid Market Account Director

Sales Solutions

LinkedIn

LinkedIn

10,001+ employees

Professional networking and career development platform

Compensation Overview

$136k - $195k/yr

+ Annual performance bonus + Stock + Incentive compensation

Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

Chicago, IL, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid work is performed from home and a LinkedIn office on select days, based on team needs.

Category
Sales & Account Management (1)
Required Skills
Sales
Forecasting
Salesforce
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • At least 4 years of relevant sales experience.
Responsibilities
  • Learn about LinkedIn’s platform, products, and associated tools, including Salesforce.
  • Communicate the LinkedIn Sales Solutions value proposition and elevator pitch to inspire clients to adopt a new method of connecting value to customers.
  • Conduct discovery calls and confirm meetings with key decision-makers that generate revenue.
  • Create a pipeline of reasonable opportunities and reliable forecasts transparently.
  • Develop and execute strategic territory plans that improve the sales process.
  • Listen to market needs and educate the product and marketing teams.
  • Deliver against quarterly and annual revenue targets, preferably exceeding them.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with Software as a Service sales.
  • Experience in relationship management with C-level users.
  • Experience with business development across various geographies.
  • A history of exceeding quota and driving results in a high-growth company environment.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, analytical, and forecasting skills.
  • Deep relationships with senior sales leadership.
  • Ability to find, manage, and close high-level business sales.
  • Ability to use competitive selling to position company products against direct and indirect competitors.
  • Ability to gather and use data to inform decision-making and persuade others.
  • Ability to assess business opportunities, understand prospective buyers, and develop compelling strategies.

LinkedIn is a professional networking platform that helps people manage their careers and helps companies find and hire talent. It works by letting users create free profiles to showcase work experience and skills, while employers post jobs and use recruiting tools. The platform makes money mainly from Talent Solutions (recruiting tools for employers), Marketing Solutions (targeted ads for professionals), and Premium Subscriptions (for individuals with enhanced features like advanced search, InMail, and access to LinkedIn Learning). It differs from competitors by hosting a massive global network of professionals, offering integrated hiring and marketing tools, and providing an interconnected set of services (jobs, learning, and professional insights) through a freemium model and Microsoft integration. The goal is to connect professionals, support career development, and enable business opportunities by expanding the professional network and the related economy (economic graph).

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$559.1M

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

2002

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Microsoft reported LinkedIn revenue up 12% year over year in FY26 Q3.
  • BrandLink video ads and Creator Marketplace expand higher-margin B2B marketing inventory.
  • Adobe and LinkedIn's AI Essentials program targets marketers, riding 113% AI-job-post growth.

What critics are saying

  • May 2026 layoffs cut about 875 jobs and closed Graz, signaling margin pressure.
  • LinkedIn's Advice Sessions and creator tools lack disclosed take rates, limiting monetization visibility.
  • OpenAI, Google, and Perplexity erode LinkedIn search traffic and recruiting moat by 2027.

What makes LinkedIn unique

  • LinkedIn's billion-member professional graph powers hiring, sales, and advertising decision data.
  • Microsoft integrates LinkedIn with Office, Bing, and the $20 billion ads business.
  • Creator Marketplace and BrandWorks, launched June 10 2026, deepen B2B creator monetization.

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