Senior Agency Development Lead – Marketing Solutions

• Full-time
• Workplace Type:
  Hybrid
• Department: GBO

Linked In 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.

At Linked In, 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 Linked In office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.

The Senior Agency Development Lead is accountable for delivering sustainable growth across a defined portfolio of agency customers. The role combines commercial insight and strategic planning with disciplined execution and a strong bias to action, turning opportunities into focused growth plans, mobilizing agency and internal stakeholders, and driving those plans through to measurable customer and business outcomes. Success requires building trusted, multi-threaded relationships across the agency ecosystem, including executive advocacy that creates alignment, commitment and momentum behind shared growth priorities.

This is a role for an individual contributor who is equally comfortable setting strategic direction and executing on the plan. The successful candidate will bring strong judgement, commercial acumen and disciplined execution: simplifying complexity, establishing ownership and milestones, and adapting quickly when required. They will work closely with Field Sales and cross-functional partners, building relationships and advocacy across the agency ecosystem to align stakeholders and accelerate growth where the interests of Linked In, our agency partners and our shared clients meet.

Key Responsibilities

• Own sustainable growth across a defined agency portfolio, with accountability for commercial outcomes, product adoption, and customer value.
• Diagnose the largest growth opportunities and translate Linked In Marketing Solutions priorities into focused agency and account plans.
• Convert strategy into execution through clear priorities, owners, milestones, measures, and follow-through.
• Build trusted, multi-threaded agency relationships and executive advocacy that drive alignment and commitment to shared growth priorities.
• Partner with Field Sales and cross-functional teams to activate agency influence, accelerate priority accounts, and remove barriers to growth.
• Build agency capabilities, programs, and repeatable motions that scale impact beyond individual engagements.

Growth Strategy and Execution

• Build strategic growth plans that align agency insight, customer priorities, commercial opportunity, and Linked In’s strategic priorities into clear outcomes and choices.
• Build executive sponsorship and multi-threaded relationships to secure commitments, navigate complexity, resolve trade-offs, and accelerate growth priorities.
• Lead plans from opportunity identification through activation and measurement, driving sustainable growth.
• Establish an effective operating rhythm across the customer portfolio.
• Move quickly from discussion to action, testing practical interventions and adapting plans based on evidence.
• Maintain high standards of execution and follow-through, ensuring commitments…