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LinkedIn

Runs a social network for careers and hiring

Senior Account Executive - Nordics, Sales Solutions

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid, Senior
Dublin, Ireland
HybridHybrid role; occasional on-site in Dublin, Ireland.
Sales & Account ManagementAccount Executive

About the job

Requirements
  • 4+ years of applicable sales experience
  • Fluency in English
Responsibilities
  • Drive revenue by connecting with customers and building opportunities that will make all parties more successful
  • Demonstrate sales leadership through strong planning, forecasting, revenue reporting and pipeline management
  • Be a best-in-class Sales Navigator user and leader on top performing sales habits
  • Leverage your skills and your customers’ experience to continually evolve our solution offerings and the sales process
  • Act as an owner on your book-of-business and revenue goals
  • Consistently meet and exceed the business and revenue objectives set forth in your plan
  • Adapt but also work to develop, apply, and circulate a set of best practices that will be the foundation of this growing team
  • Champion LinkedIn’s Diversity and Inclusion values and culture
Desired Qualifications
  • Fluency in a Nordic language; Swedish, Danish, Finnish or Norwegian
  • Sales experience selling into Nordic market(s)
  • Track record selling SaaS solutions, CRM platforms or software platform solutions
  • Proven ability to work to a quota and achieve results
  • Demonstrated ability to find, manage and close high-level business sales
  • Ability to assess business opportunities 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 bring together multiple buyers in the same company to build groundswell
  • Leveraging partners within LinkedIn to effectively evangelize the solution
  • Prospecting
  • Negotiation
  • Analytics & Forecasting
  • Relationship Building
  • Multithreading

About the company

LinkedIn runs a social network for working life, where people keep an online record of their careers and look for jobs, and where employers recruit, advertise, and sell to professionals. It became the world's largest professional network, and in 2016 Microsoft bought it in what was then Microsoft's biggest acquisition. Members fill profiles with their work history and skills, post in a news feed, and apply for openings, while recruiters search those profiles and message candidates through LinkedIn Recruiter. LinkedIn charges employers for these hiring tools and for ads aimed by job title or industry, and members pay for Premium subscriptions. Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn in 2002, and it is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Acquired

Total Funding

$559.1M

Headquarters

Mountain View, California

Founded

2002

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What believers are saying

  • Ads are the growth engine: LinkedIn's ad sales grew 16% in the June 2026 quarter, a seventh straight double-digit rise.
  • AI recruiting tools are paying off: LinkedIn's AI hiring products passed a $450 million yearly revenue pace by March 2026.
  • Hiring continues after the cuts: LinkedIn listed 330 open roles in October 2026, 187 in sales and 101 in engineering.

What critics are saying

  • Cuts come even as sales grow: LinkedIn laid off about 5% of staff in May 2026 after 12% revenue growth.
  • LinkedIn is a small, slower part of Microsoft: it made 6% of fiscal 2026 sales, growing 11% versus 18% overall.
  • AI-written posts crowd the feed: detection firm Pangram flagged 41% of long LinkedIn posts from April to June 2026.

What makes LinkedIn unique

  • Its scale is hard to copy: LinkedIn had over 1.3 billion members and 70 million companies by April 2026.
  • Its engineers built software most giant firms run: data-streaming tool Kafka, used by over 80% of the Fortune 100.
  • LinkedIn answers to Microsoft's Office chief: its CEO reports to Ryan Roslansky, who runs both LinkedIn and Office.

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