Sales Operations Associate Jobs

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.

This role can be located in San Francisco-CA, Sunnyvale-CA or Remote-US depending on where the hired candidate for the role currently resides.
At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers both hybrid and remote work options. This means you can work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what's best for you and when it is important for your team to be together, or you can work remotely from most locations within the country listed for this role.
Interested in helping us build our next generation of internal tools and build a data-driven business? Our team supports the planning and operational landscape for the business and manages all data needs for LinkedIn’s Global Business Organization (GBO). Spanning systems design, reporting, product management, business strategy, and operations, you will gain a broad spectrum of experience applying your technical data skills to drive strategy and improve company operations. 
This role will be a good fit for a candidate with exceptional quantitative, communication, and project management skills. You will have the opportunity to apply your deep understanding of System Design, Operations, and Analytics to streamline our business reporting capabilities end-to-end while influencing our broader data strategy at LinkedIn.
Responsibilities:   

• Partner with other Operations teams, Data Science, and Engineering to build the optimal platform to support our data processing and consumption needs
• Drive an alignment on the metric source of truth datasets across Sales Operations, Business Operations, Finance, Data Science, and Engineering teams
• Partner with cross-functional teams in designing, implementing, and supporting critical business solutions and processes on the Anaplan platform
• Develop a deep understanding of the key sales metrics for LinkedIn’s SaaS Lines of Business
• Provide Data Validation and Quality Assurance during and after model development and support validation activities post go-live.
• Build, maintain, and continuously improve upon various models, provide architectural guidance, and drive Anaplan best practices for initiatives across LinkedIn

Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:   

• 2+ years of work experience
• Bachelor’s degree in Math, Computer Science, Economics, Business, Engineering or other quantitative fields, OR equivalent experience
• 1+ years of Anaplan model building experience, 2+ for Sr Associate

Preferred Qualifications:   

• Effective Communications: Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations  
• SQL Experience: 2+ years of experience with SQL
• Anaplan Certification: Certified in Level 1 Model Building, Level 2 Model Building, and Anaplan Way or above
• Proactive and passionate about results: Independently capable of seeking information, solving conceptual problems, corralling resources, and delivering results in challenging situations
• CRM Data Expertise: Knowledge of reporting and dashboarding with data from a CRM, preferably Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics and PowerBI
• Problem-Solver: Comfortable with data and ambiguity; able to both delve into the details and operational tactics and engage meaningfully in the big picture or overall strategy
• Tech Industry or SaaS experience: Subject matter expertise in B2B sales processes and/or experience working in high-growth, performance-focused environments
• Sales Operations: Knowledge of the end-to-end Financial Planning & Budgeting Process, including forecasting, headcount planning, spend management, leverage this knowledge to design, and deliver the necessary solutions
• Highly Analytical: Experience decomposing and solving real-world business problems, ideally building/using advanced Excel models
• Initiative and Ownership: Ability to act with limited oversight on a day-to-day basis, balancing multiple priorities
• Adaptable to change: Excited by working in a quickly evolving team   

Suggested Skills:

• Data validation
• Cross-functional collaborations
• Excel
• SQL
• Platform implementation

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
The pay range for this role is $85,000 to $126,000. 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
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is 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. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference the following information for more information: https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/LinkedIn_EEO_Statement_2020.pdf. Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at [email protected] and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Having interviews in an accessible location
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
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
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.
Equal Opportunity Statement
LinkedIn is committed to diversity in its workforce and is 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. LinkedIn is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer as described in our equal opportunity statement here: https://lnkd.in/equalemploymentopportunity2017. Please reference the following information for more information: https://legal.linkedin.com/content/dam/legal/LinkedIn_EEO_Statement_2020.pdf. Please reference the following information for more information: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf and https://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/OFCCP_EEO_Supplement_Final_JRF_QA_508c.pdf for more information.
LinkedIn is committed to offering an inclusive and accessible experience for all job seekers, including individuals with disabilities. Our goal is to foster an inclusive and accessible workplace where everyone has the opportunity to be successful.
If you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, apply for a position, or participate in the interview process, connect with us at [email protected] and describe the specific accommodation requested for a disability-related limitation.
Reasonable accommodations are modifications or adjustments to the application or hiring process that would enable you to fully participate in that process. Examples of reasonable accommodations include but are not limited to:

• Having a sign language interpreter present for the interview
• Being accompanied by a service dog
• Documents in alternate formats or read aloud to you
• Having interviews in an accessible location

A request for an accommodation will be responded to within three business days. However, non-disability related requests, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
LinkedIn will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by LinkedIn, or (c) consistent with LinkedIn's legal duty to furnish information.
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
As a federal contractor, LinkedIn follows the Pay Transparency and non-discrimination provisions described at this link: https://lnkd.in/paytransparency.
Global Data Privacy Notice for Job Candidates
Please follow this link to access the document that provides transparency around the way in which LinkedIn handles personal data of employees and job applicants: https://legal.linkedin.com/candidate-portal.

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.