Brand Strategist, LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

This role will be based in San Francisco or New York City.

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 Brand & Content Strategy (BCS) team at LinkedIn is comprised of subject matter experts that span Content Effectiveness Partnerships Live Events and Brand Strategy. BCS serves as a center of creative content and brand advertising expertise across the LinkedIn platform helping marketers unlock LinkedIns full-funnel canvas of solutions to achieve their brand objectives. This group is client-facing and sits within LinkedIns Marketing Solutions organization (LMS).

The Brand Strategy Team (within BCS) is an entirely new function and the Brand Strategist will play a key role in redefining how our clients harness LinkedIn and how our internal teams partner cross-functionally. Strategists are innately curious highly collaborative and motivated to help advertisers achieve their brand goals on LinkedIn. Our focus extends beyond just promoting product features. Strategists partner closely with stakeholders including LinkedIns sales team the other functions on the BCS Team and cross-functional experts across LinkedIn (e.g. Insights Measurement Science Product Marketing) to bring compelling customer- centric and data-backed solutions to the worlds top advertisers.

Brand Strategists are creative storytellers and strategic thinkers that LinkedIns ad sales team partners with for executive-level client meetings and advertisers most important brand campaigns tentpoles and launch-based initiatives. With a skew towards B2B marketers the latter will span across large-scale industry conferences sports / entertainment sponsorships and global campaign / product launches.

The ideal candidate is an ambitious self-starter loves translating data into insights gets energy crafting and delivering strategic narratives knows the best work is done in collaboration with others and has a depth of experience working across the client / agency / platform ecosystem.

Responsibilities :

Partner with our sales teams and build a reputation internally and externally as a phenomenal partner and key strategic advisor to advertisers on the LinkedIn platform.

Take an industrious approach to ambiguous asks. Demonstrate an inquisitive drive to understand our customers business challenges. Interrogate briefs and diagnose the often internal motivations not explicitly written in the briefing documents. Synthesize disparate information and identify opportunities for clients to achieve their KPIs (and grow investment) on LinkedIn.

Direct the development of insights-driven pitch narratives and activation strategies that unlock briefs drive campaign investment and deliver measurable impact.

Executive-level communicator thats able to demonstrate gravitas and communicate at any level. Confident representing our company at high-profile events including top to top meetings and panels.

A doer that builds and executes plans both internally and externally creating a culture of inclusion and empowerment along the way. Rally cross-functional teams around a common objective and partner to have each function contribute to one cohesive output that the whole team is aligned and motivated to achieve.

Explore new ways of doing things and take the initiative to turn those ideas into action. Continuously learn refine and scale approaches that create win-win outcomes for BCS LinkedIn and our clients.

Package case studies and scale inspiring work across the org and out into the market

High EQ that enables close working relationships with x-functional partners. Is both persuasive and collaborative and uses this ability to lead and inspire our internal teams and to influence key client decision makers including CMOs and agency stakeholders.

Respected and influential atmolding the direction of work that you are directly and indirectly own.

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications :

10 years of experience as a creative marketer at a social platform and / or in digital / social media at agencies publishers and / or brands.

6 years of experience crafting insight driven ideas and solutions for advertisers spanning B2C and B2B advertisers.

6 years of experience presenting and pitching strategies and ideas to senior-level marketers and executives including CMOs.

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience leading and managing sales and / or client relationships serving as the primary point of contact across engagements.

Experience influencing sales team members through strategic counsel and cross-functional collaboration helping to drive client success and commercial outcomes.

An understanding of LinkedIns advertising solutions and overall advertising model as well as deep subject matter expertise in the broader social media and digital advertising landscape.

Deep understanding of digital / social user experiences and how to collaborate with creative and technical / product experts to bring them to life.

Desire to leverage agentic AI to streamline workflows and gain efficiencies.

Strong customer centric and solution-focused attitude.

Proficient computer skills (PowerPoint Keynote Word Excel)

Suggested Skills

B2B Brand Strategy & Content Development

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Client Relationship Management & Advisory

Presentation & Pitching Skills

Insights Driven Story Telling

Additional Information :

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $259000 to $395000 (On Target Earnings). Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate including but not limited to skill set depth of experience certifications and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus stock benefits and / or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information visit  Opportunity Statement

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Employment Type : Full-time

Key Skills

Business Development,Graphic Design,Communication Strategies,CRM,Online,Market Research,Project Management,SEO,Content Marketing,Facebook,ROI,Creative concepts,Actionable Insights,KPI,Analytics

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1