Senior Agency Development Lead – LinkedIn Marketing Solutions

LinkedIn•New York, NY

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. 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 LinkedIn, our agency partners and our shared clients meet.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in marketing, agency, advertising, ad sales, business development, partnerships or a related commercial discipline.
5+ years of experience building and executing strategic customer, agency or commercial growth plans.

Nice To Haves

Proven track record of owning and delivering commercial growth across a complex matrix of customers
Strong digital advertising, video, social media, B2B marketing and agency ecosystem expertise.
Experience building and implementing Joint Business Plans, Agency Level Partnerships, Commercial Agreements or comparable growth frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to prioritise opportunities, construct executable plans, mobilise stakeholders and maintain momentum through delivery.
Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
Experience building executive advocacy and using it effectively to align stakeholders and advance shared growth priorities.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including business case development, concise decision documents and senior stakeholder presentations.
High degree of judgement, accountability, customer focus, collaboration and operational discipline.

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.