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
This role will be based in London, United Kingdom
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.
About the Role:
The LinkedIn Event Strategy team is looking for an Events Strategist to serve as the connective tissue between our Strategic Growth and Sales teams, ensuring seamless execution of live events hosted on the platform. This role blends project management, campaign strategy, and client-service - ensuring operational rigor and helping to translate this big-picture sales objective into successfully executed live experiences.
The ideal candidate for this role is proactive, organized, and thrives in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment. From relationship management to campaign coordination, Live programs can be complex. We’re looking for a candidate who is a communicator, problem-solver, and operational manager that can manage multiple stakeholders and keep these live programs running smoothly from strategic planning through completion.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary liaison between Strategic Growth leads, Sales, and the cross-functional Events team to ensure successful program management of Live campaigns
- Oversee campaign planning, setup and execution, ensuring all operational and logistical details are properly managed
- Work in tandem with managed services team and technical operations teams to QA campaign and technical operations in advance of launch to ensure all deliverables and quality standards are met
- Partner with sales teams to develop media plans, monitor performance, and report insights to align with client goals and event strategy. while ensuring successful event execution.
- Partner with internal cross-functional teams to build out new Go-to-Market strategies
- Contribute to continuous program management and operational improvement by refining workflows and sharing insights across teams
- Partner with Strategic Growth leads in long term Events strategy plans.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in program management, client account management, or a related field
- 6+ years experience in event strategy, digital event activation and / or digital event ecosystem
- 6+ years of experience presenting and pitching strategies and ideas to senior-level marketers and executives, including CMOs.
Preferred Qualifications :
- Strong understanding of media planning, campaign optimization, and post-sales operations
- Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally and manage many projects simultaneously
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to interpret performance metrics and translate insights into actionable recommendations and guide long-term events strategy
- Desire to leverage agentic AI to streamline workflows and gain efficiencies.
- An understanding of LinkedIn's event product ecosystem, as well as deep subject matter expertise in the broader social media and digital advertising landscape.
- 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.
- Experience in sales quota carrying roles
Suggested Skills:
- Project Management
- Event Strategy & Execution
- Stakeholder Management
- Media Planning & Optimization
- Communication & Presentation Skills
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