Sr. Manager

Job Description 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 Location: Bangalore 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. Our Monetization Strategic Finance team is searching for a strategic and results-driven Senior Manager of Strategic Finance, Marketplace Performance for LinkedIn Sales Solutions (LSS). This person will partner closely with senior R&D leaders to craft our long-term term strategy, drive focus efforts on top priorities and shape the future growth of LSS. A strong candidate will be able to demonstrate a track record of strategic insight, analytical rigor, synthesized communication; and have experience with executive partnership, leading transformational initiatives, and team leadership that empowers and develops our talented employees. The role is highly cross-functional, blending strategy & execution, creating clarity and speed to execution of needle-moving corporate priorities. The ideal candidate will be passionate about solving highly complex ambiguous operational and strategic questions within LinkedIn's R&D team and has exceptional business acumen and the skills to operate autonomously to identify, prioritize, partner, influence and implement high-impact change. This role will report to LinkedIn's Senior Director of LSS Strategic Finance. Responsibilities: - Identifies new opportunities for growth, makes novel strategic recommendations, and drives strategy development for a function/line of business/organizations. Inspire teams to break organizational assumptions and challenge status quo. - Ensures pressure testing of growth opportunities and ensures the consideration of trade-offs and implications across functions/lines of business/organizations. - Leverages insights, data, internal/external trends, and narratives to influence stakeholders and executive leadership. - Drives alignment by synthesizing problems and communicates point of view to support decision-making on strategic issues affecting the function/line of business/organization. - Leads and develops multiple complex workstreams, projects, or operational processes within a function/line of business/organization. - Anticipates obstacles and leverages expertise to recommend and drive implementation of innovative solutions. - Serve as the connective tissue of a cross-functional team (including Sales, Product Management, Marketing, Sales Operations, Finance, Business Development, Corporate Development, and other internal groups, etc.), working to share knowledge and drive people towards a common goal. - Oversees team(s) responsible for supporting performance management by creating, maintaining, and updating models and forecasts. - Reviews forecasts, analyzes risks and opportunities, and anticipates effects of internal/external metrics trends and behavior in meeting targets. - Leads a work team in alignment with the culture and values of the organization, including people development and diversity, inclusion, and belonging. - Coaches team members and provides actionable, concrete project-oriented feedback (after a meeting, end-of-project review) to colleagues and/or partners. - Supports career development goals of team and encourages opportunities for people development, movement and transformation across the team and company. Qualifications Basic Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Business, Business Analytics, Finance, or related field - 8+ years of experience in finance, finance accounting, management consulting, investment banking, or related field OR equivalent experience Preferred Qualifications: - 5+ years of people management experience - 5+ years of experience in the technology industry - 2+ years partnering w/ product or R&D leaders - Excellent communication and analytical skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations Suggested Skills - Communication - Influencing for Impact - Innovation - Problem Solving - Strategic Thinking Additional Information India Disability Policy LinkedIn is an equal employment opportunity employer offering opportunities to all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. 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