Account Executive - UKI Market - Talent Solutions

About the role

Join a team focused on new business development for LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions offering in the UKI market. The position is based in Dublin and follows a hybrid working model, with time split between home and a LinkedIn office according to team and business needs.

LinkedIn aims to help professionals grow, connect, and discover opportunities while fostering a workplace culture rooted in trust, care, inclusion, and enjoyment.

What you will do

• Drive outbound prospecting to build a healthy pipeline and establish strong relationships with prospective clients.
• Maintain accurate pipeline visibility and provide clear, dependable forecasts to management.
• Consistently close new business at or above quota expectations.
• Create, refine, and execute a territory plan while capturing and sharing competitive intelligence.
• Support teammates through coaching and practical guidance whenever improvement opportunities arise.
• Help define and spread best practices that strengthen the team’s approach.

Success in this role

• Gather market feedback and share useful insights with product and marketing partners.
• Take initiative in solving issues, even when they fall outside your immediate scope.
• Step into leadership opportunities and contribute to broader company goals.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of relevant sales experience.
• Professional fluency in English.
• Preferred: 1 or more years of closing sales experience.
• Preferred: experience selling HR tech or recruitment solutions.
• Preferred: exposure to SaaS sales and Salesforce.com and/or Dynamics CRM.
• Preferred: familiarity with software contract terms and conditions, with the ability to structure fair deals.
• Preferred: strong negotiation ability and accurate forecasting skills.
• Preferred: proven success in finding, managing, and closing high-value deals in an evangelist-style sales environment.
• Preferred: ability to evaluate business opportunities using data and influence decision-making.
• Preferred: capability to juggle many prospect conversations at once while positioning products against direct and indirect competitors.

Additional information

Applicants should note the global data privacy notice and compliance posters made available for candidates. These materials explain how LinkedIn processes personal data for employees and job applicants, and they also include the E-Verify Participation Notice and Department of Justice Immigrant and Employee Rights Section Right to Work posters.

A candidate portal link is provided in the source to access these documents, but no external link is included here.