Director of Data & Analytics- LinkedIn Marketing Solutions GTM Ops

Director of Data & Analytics- LinkedIn Marketing Solutions GTM Ops

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.

This role will be based in New York, Chicago or Bellevue (San Francisco Bay Area not preferred, but willing to consider).

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 Director of Data & Analytics for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions (LMS) GTM Ops will play a key role in defining the future-state business performance measurement and management of our Media businesses. This will be responsible for leading our Analytics Engineering, Advanced Analytics and Data Products & Operations teams that currently support LinkedIn Marketing Solutions with critical business metrics, analytics, and operations. This leader will be responsible for owning relationships with key partners in Data Science, Product, Engineering, Sales and GTM Ops Leaders, to define and align on our reporting and predictive insights priorities, considering critical business needs and the LinkedIn ecosystem.

The ideal candidate will have exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and be comfortable interacting with all levels and functions, including Executive Management, Data Science, Finance, Product, Engineering, Business Operations, and Sales Operations leaders and colleagues.

Using strong communication skills, the Global Director will effectively collaborate with a variety of people and job functions across all geographies, accomplishing tasks of moderate to high complexity and scope, and can perform in a challenging and fast-paced environment. The Global Director will also be responsible for building and developing a top-caliber operations team.

Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain core GTM Data Foundations for Revenue and Mapping
• Execute and enhance core GTM data processes
• Gather requests and feedback to build core GTM analytics dashboards for the business and conduct various analytics to drive insights for the global business.
• Define and implement the future-state vision of the team in an AI driven world
• Own critical relationships across Data Science, Product, and Engineering and be the "voice of" the business in key metrics, analytics, and analytic tool discussions.
• Own prioritization recommendations for predictive insights and reporting needs, recognizing business requirements, critical timelines, and tradeoffs.
• Prepare exec communications (e.g., bi-weekly exec updates, steer co materials, quarterly business reviews) in collaboration with cross-functional partners.
• Work with cross-functional partners and key stakeholders to drive core process improvement, resulting in clear ROI and leverage for our global teams.
• Develop and set targets for measures of team success.
• Inspire excellence through example, coaching, developing and coaching others; foster a positive and values-driven team culture.

Basic Qualifications :

10+ years work experience in data analytics

10+ years work in B2B - sales, operations, or finance

3+ years' experience managing people leaders

Bachelor's degree in Business, Technical or a related field, or equivalent experience

Preferred Requirements :

Experience in advertising / media

Experience managing people managers.

Experience using and developing reports, metrics, and dashboards with PowerBI, SQL, and Tableau.

Strong communication skills, including written and verbal communication experience with senior management.

Experience working in high-growth, performance focused environments.

Deep interest in analyzing data and the ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision-making.

Suggested Skills :

Leadership

Cross-functional Collaboration

Influencing

Communication