Partnerships Manager, LinkedIn Studio - EMEA & LATAM

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. 

Role overview 

LinkedIn Studio is LinkedIn’s end-to-end marketing shop dedicated to helping B2B brands achieve their business objectives by maximizing the power of LinkedIn. Combining LinkedIn’s brand, IP, data, and experiences with its scale as the world’s largest professional network, LinkedIn Studio’s Partnerships team creates innovative, high-impact partnerships that drive measurable results. LinkedIn Studio’s Partnership solutions span content, research, events, co-marketing, and first-to-market product innovations, with a focus on increasing LinkedIn’s share of B2B brand advertising budgets. This is a growing and dynamic team, and a unique moment to help build the future of LinkedIn’s partnership model, turning the art of the possible into reality for our customers.  

LinkedIn Studio is seeking a Partnerships Manager, EMEA & LATAM. In this role, you will play a critical role in supporting marketing partnerships from pitch to activation, ensuring seamless execution, operational rigor, and effective communication. You’ll collaborate closely with Studio Leads, Sales, clients, and cross-functional partners to develop and execute compelling partnership solutions. You’ll also help maintain program operations, track milestones, manage collateral updates, and support program upkeep.  

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring experience in marketing, advertising, and/or production, working with top brands, building relationships across LinkedIn’s ecosystem, and contributing to high-visibility marketing partnerships. You should be comfortable flexing across functions such as integrated marketing, branded content production, and sponsorship strategy, while learning how to scale an emerging function within a complex, well-established organization.  

The ideal candidate is a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, operates with urgency, is detail-oriented yet creative, and brings a solutions-driven mindset to every challenge. You’re passionate about marketing, advertising, and digital media, and you excel at building strong relationships with both clients and internal stakeholders. Success in this role will be defined by measurable impact, driving influenced revenue, executing high-quality programs, and strengthening client satisfaction, while also helping scale LinkedIn’s partnerships for greater reach and influence.  

This is a chance to join at a pivotal moment and help shape how LinkedIn redefines partnerships, building solutions that raise the bar for how B2B brands grow with us, and shaping the future of LinkedIn Studio in the process. 

Responsibilities: 

Ideation and Client Engagement 

• Lead proactive and responsive pitches by developing compelling, insights-driven partnership proposals, both proactively and in response to RFPs, tailored to customer challenges and objectives to enable Sales to secure incremental revenue. 
• Leverage client information, briefs, AI summaries, and available insights to develop an understanding of client needs and priorities, including key subjects, campaigns, themes, audiences, and market moments, with some guidance. 
• Develop creative partnership proposals based on target audiences, customer objectives, products, or solutions, leveraging existing offerings and crafting compelling storytelling around the opportunity. 
• Present partnership proposals directly to customers and agency partners with confidence and clarity, using compelling, customized collateral to build buy-in and accelerate deal commitment. Engage senior client stakeholders with guidance as appropriate. 

Project Management 

• Lead partnership activations by driving timelines, deliverables, milestones, and internal and external communications across clients, agencies, and cross-functional teams, ensuring programs are executed on time and at a high standard, with some guidance. 
• Drive collaboration across cross-functional partners, including Sales, Editorial, Brand, Events, Research, Product, Legal, and Production, to align workflows, responsibilities, and deliverables for high-touch partnership activations. 
• Manage the vetting, approvals, and logistics required to bring partnership concepts to market, coordinating the evaluation and negotiation of partnership elements, feasibility, and production costs across internal partners, with some guidance. 
• Anticipate potential challenges and blockers across partnership activations and proactively identify solutions to keep projects moving forward. 

Creative Editorial and Production Management 

• Guide the development and production of creative elements, including scripts, mood boards, storyboards, and other content assets, providing feedback and recommendations to ensure alignment with project objectives, client needs, and brand storytelling, with some oversight. 
• Manage the production of custom, advertorial, and co-branded content in partnership with internal and external creative and production teams, including overseeing production shoots, budgets, schedules, logistics, and on-set coordination with clients and agency partners, with guidance. 
• Recommend creative adjustments that increase the value, effectiveness, and audience impact of partnership programs while ensuring alignment across LinkedIn, the client brand, and the creative concept. 
• Stakeholder Management and Communication 
• Build and leverage cross-functional relationships to vet, source, and secure resources and opportunities for customers, brokering alignment with internal stakeholders to bring approved partnership concepts to life. 
• Build relationships with internal and external partners and begin to roadmap longer-term partnership strategies with guidance, activating the right partners and resources for individual projects and workstreams. 
• Coordinate with external stakeholders, including agencies, production partners, talent, creators, and their operational teams, from planning through delivery to ensure a high-quality client and partner experience. 
• Build, organize, and maintain LinkedIn Studio's Partnerships GTM collateral and foundational resources, including pitch decks, one-sheets, templates, case studies, and sales enablement materials, ensuring teams have accurate and compelling resources to support customer conversations. 

Strategy and Asset Optimization 

• Contribute to the development and operationalization of new monetizable partnership solutions across LinkedIn’s ecosystem by identifying customer needs, evaluating available assets, and collaborating with internal stakeholders to bring new opportunities to market. 
• Review existing monetizable assets, solutions, and processes to identify opportunities to increase their value, usability, and application across customer needs, with some oversight. 
• Align cross-functional resources to uncover existing opportunities and maximize the availability and impact of LinkedIn assets for client and business needs. 
• Apply established commercial models to turn approved ideas, assets, products, and processes into executable and monetizable partnership opportunities. 
• Recommend the appropriate use of existing partnership solutions and assets based on customer objectives and project needs, while identifying opportunities that could inform future solution development. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• 5+ years of experience in Integrated Marketing, Ad Sales Marketing, Ad Sales, Brand Partnerships, Content Sponsorships, Production, Project Management, Media (non-Software as a Service), or related field.  
• Business fluency in English  

Preferred Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Production, or related field  
• 2+ years of experience in project management, portfolio management, or related field. 
• 2+ years of experience in content production, content marketing, or related field. 
• Business fluency in German 

Suggested Skills 

• Adaptability  
• Communication 
• Cross-Team Collaboration 
• Presenting 
• Project Management 

Additional Information

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