Director, B2B Enterprise Insights

LinkedIn • San Francisco, CA

14h • Hybrid

About The Position

This role will be based in San Francisco, Sunnyvale or 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. About the Role We are seeking a highly strategic, hands-on, research-led insights leader to lead our B2B Marketing Insights function focusing on enterprise customers and inform marketing leadership to shape our GTM strategy. This leader will operate as a decision partner to marketers, integrating multiple signals across research, behavioral, and business data to translate complexity into clear, actionable direction against marketing’s highest priorities. The Director will act as a full-stack insights builder who frames ambiguous business problems, architect insights roadmaps and learning agenda, leads research, synthesizes imperfect data, and delivers executive-ready recommendations that improve decision quality. This role also plays a critical part in rebuilding and scaling insights capability within a fast-moving, tech-driven environment. About the Team The Market Insights team serves as a research and insights Center of Excellence enabling LinkedIn Marketing to make confident, audience-centric, data-driven decisions. We develop deep audience understanding, deliver well-synthesized and actionable insights from multiple data sources, leverage intelligent technology, and operate as a strategic decision-enablement partner across the business.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in market research, B2B insights, marketing strategy, or related fields.
• 5+ years of leadership experience driving cross-functional influence and partnering with senior stakeholders in complex matrix organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Deep expertise in B2B marketing environments, including buying groups and complex decision journeys.
• Strong understanding of digital advertising and demand generation ecosystems.
• Significant hands-on experience designing and leading end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research.
• Proven ability to synthesize across research, behavioral, and performance data sources.
• Experience partnering closely with Marketing, GTM teams to inform strategic decisions.
• Exceptional ability to translate imperfect or directional data into decision-ready guidance.
• Consulting-level problem structuring, communication, and executive presence.
• Demonstrated success operating in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Background in strategy consulting, management consulting, or research-led advisory roles strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead Insight Design and Development: Own end-to-end insight development by framing ambiguous business challenges into researchable questions and defining and executing the appropriate methodological approach (qualitative, quantitative, hybrid, or experimental).
• Research Craft Ownership:Serve as a hands-on research architect, ensuring studies are decision-fit, identifying bias and validity risks, and making informed trade-offs in research design.
• Multi-Source Synthesis and sense making: Integrate findings across primary research, behavioral signals, digital advertising data, product data, and commercial performance metrics to develop coherent narratives and recommendations.
• Drive Strategic Alignment: Act as a thought partner to B2B marketing leaders on audience prioritization, messaging strategy, funnel optimization, demand generation, and channel/budget trade-offs.
• Influence & Communicate: Deliver structured, executive-ready insights and recommendations framed in business impact and risk terms. Navigate stakeholder pushback constructively and influence without authority.
• Capability Building: Help rebuild and scale an AI-first, decision-oriented insights function by raising quality standards, installing structured problem-framing approaches, and mentoring team

Benefits

• The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.
• For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed