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 San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, D.C. or New York City.
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.
As an integral member of our fast-paced, well-rounded, collaborative, and fun commercial legal team, you will play an active role in fulfilling LinkedIn's mission of connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful.
In this role, you will focus on addressing the novel and complex legal and business issues that confront a fast-growing company committed to innovation. You will work primarily with our marketing business teams, negotiating revenue-generating advertising transactions and incentive deals.
If you enjoy working with motivated, funny, and driven people who do not take themselves too seriously and love to serve their local communities through pro bono activities, you will fit in well with our team!
Responsibilities
- Independently draft, review and negotiate ad sales-related agreements for LinkedIn's Marketing Solutions team. Representative agreements include advertising insertion orders, media, strategic partnership, sponsorship, and non-disclosure agreements.
- Lead negotiation calls with customers.
- Collaborate with LinkedIn's Deal Desk, Sales, Finance, Product, and other cross-functional teams on internal approvals and escalations to ensure sales transactions are consistent with internal corporate policies and processes.
- Act as a business partner to the LinkedIn marketing sales teams throughout the customer lifecycle to ensure timely management and closure of sales opportunities.
- Drive internal projects that create leverage and scalable processes to optimize contract negotiation and management services that drive business results.
- Provide support to senior attorneys as needed.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- JD from an ABA-accredited law school
- 3 years' experience practicing as an attorney, including 2 years of experience in online/digital advertising transactions (Ad-Tech)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with negotiating the IAB standard terms and conditions
- Demonstrated ability to manage various deals and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to build strong relationships with teams across various disciplines and seniority levels
- A proficient understanding of global data privacy and security frameworks
- Provides exceptional customer service
- Exercises sound business judgment and escalates material issues to senior attorneys as needed
- Sense of humor and positive "can-do" attitude.
Suggested Skills
- Digital Advertising
- Software and Intellectual Property Licensing
- Data Privacy and Security
- Cross-Functional Partnership
Compensation
LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range for this role is $123,000 to $200,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.
The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.
Additional Information
Equal Opportunity Statement
We seek candidates with a wide range of perspectives and backgrounds and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. LinkedIn considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, LinkedIn will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Pay Transparency Policy Statement
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