Senior Agency Development Lead – LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

This role will be based in New York. 

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.

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 LinkedIn 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 LinkedIn’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 translate into measurable outcomes.
• Develop and activate Joint Partnership Plans that unlock shared growth priorities.
• Mobilize Product, Marketing, Insights & Measurement, Video, Field Sales, Agency Development, and other partners in support of shared outcomes.
Field Sales Partnership and Account Acceleration

• Partner with Field Sales to identify priority agency-influenced growth opportunities and determine where Agency Development can have the greatest impact.
• Co-create account-level agency strategies that broaden stakeholder coverage, move engagement upstream, and connect agency influence to customer decisions.
• Activate the right agency stakeholders across planning, investment, strategy, measurement, analytics, creative, and leadership functions.
• Support full-funnel growth, video adoption, measurement activation, transformational programs, and commercial partnerships aligned to customer opportunity.
• Represent agency insight internally while maintaining accountability for turning insight into action and commercial progress.
Agency Capability and Education

• Diagnose capability gaps that limit adoption or customer value and design focused interventions to address them.
• Develop and implement education, business reviews, product updates, strategic workshops, and other programs tied to specific growth outcomes.
• Adapt narratives and solutions to agency business models, workflows, and decision-making processes.
• Identify successful practices, codify them into reusable playbooks, and drive adoption across agencies and internal teams.
• Use AI to synthesize insights, strengthen customer narratives, improve planning, and increase execution speed and quality.
Industry Leadership and LinkedIn Product Expertise

• Maintain strong knowledge of agency economics, operating models, industry trends, and LinkedIn solutions.
• Translate market and agency intelligence into practical recommendations, growth plays, and go-to-market improvements.
• Bring a credible point of view to senior agency conversations, connecting LinkedIn capabilities to agency strategic and commercial priorities.
• Identify emerging use cases and growth opportunities, testing and scaling those with the strongest potential impact.
• Contribute an agency perspective to internal strategy, product, and commercial discussions.
Success Measures

• Sustainable revenue growth and increased adoption of priority LinkedIn Marketing Solutions across the assigned agency portfolio.
• Progress against Joint Business Plans, Agency Level Agreements, commercial frameworks, and priority growth programs.
• Demonstrable contribution to Field Sales opportunities, including agency-influenced pipeline, deal acceleration, and customer outcomes.
• Strong multi-threaded relationships and executive advocacy that drive alignment and execution.
• Operational excellence across account planning, pipeline management, measurement, stakeholder mobilization, and reporting.

Department: GBO
Function: Sales
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level