Partnerships Manager, LinkedIn Partnership Studio - LMS

About the position This role will be based in in 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. LinkedIn Partnership 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 Partnership Studio creates innovative, high-impact partnerships that drive measurable results. LinkedIn Partnership Studio’s 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 clients. LinkedIn Partnership Studio is seeking a Partnerships Manager. In this role, you will play a critical part in supporting marketing partnerships from pitch to activation—ensuring seamless execution, operational rigor, and effective communication. You’ll collaborate closely with Partnership 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 Partnership Studio in the process.

Responsibilities

• Lead proactive & responsive pitches: Develop 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.
• Manage vetting, approvals, and logistics: Oversee the evaluation and negotiation of partnership concepts, elements, and production costs across internal partners, ensuring projects move forward seamlessly.
• Project management: Drive timelines, deliverables, and milestones across internal and external teams, ensuring all activations are executed on time and at a high standard.
• Present to customers: Pitch proposals directly to customers and agency partners with confidence, clarity, and compelling customized collateral to accelerate deal commitment.
• Lead activations: Manage timelines, deliverables, and internal and external communications for partnership activations and collaborate on executing high-touch partnerships.
• Manage production: Partner with internal and external creative teams to produce custom, advertorial, and co-branded content, including managing on-set productions with clients and agency partners.
• Support partnership solutions portfolio: Contribute to the development and operationalization of new monetizable partnership solutions across LinkedIn’s ecosystem.
• Manage GTM collateral: Build, organize, and maintain LinkedIn Partnership Studio’s GTM collateral and foundations, including pitch decks, one sheets, templates, case studies, and sales enablement resources.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in marketing or advertising with a combination of experience in integrated or ad sales marketing, ad sales, production, communications, brand marketing, and/or project management

Nice-to-haves

• BA/BS degree in marketing, communications, business, production, or a related field
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong customer service and solutions-oriented attitude
• Strong understanding of digital/social landscape and user experiences
• Experience collaborating with diverse array of stakeholders
• Experience with content production lifecycle, particularly branded and sponsored content
• Experience communicating with and managing clients and advertising agencies
• Avid social and digital content consumer
• Knowledge of and passion for pop culture and media
• Familiarity with LinkedIn’s advertising solutions and overall advertising model and broader social media and digital advertising landscape
• Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) and Google Suite (Slides, Docs, Sheets)

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