
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe..
Founded: 2003 (launched May 2003; company formed Dec 2002)
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, California
Members: Over 1 billion
Employee count: Approximately 26,000 (source snapshot)
Revenue streams: Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions, Premium Subscriptions
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Professional networking, recruiting, sales enablement, and professional learning.
2003
Software Development
$12.8M
Reported previously rumored $12.8M round
$53M
Investors included Sequoia, Greylock, Bessemer and Bain Capital Ventures; reported ~ $1B valuation
$22.7M
Follow-on infusion from strategic investors including SAP, Goldman Sachs, and McGraw‑Hill
“Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures and strategic investors (SAP, Goldman Sachs, McGraw‑Hill) participated in private rounds prior to IPO.”
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 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 a Senior Global Sales Compensation Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting the compensation needs of our Global Sales Organization with a high concentration with the APAC Sales Organization. You will play an integral role in maintaining as well as assisting in UAT, system changes within the fiscal year, change of business direction within the commission system, reconciliations as needed, as well as developing sales compensation plans and policies, training new sales hires for the sales incentive system and giving presentation.
You will also assist in implementing plans on an ongoing basis as well as launching the new sales compensation plan, performing accounting and close responsibilities, as well as fielding queries from the salespeople.
You will have exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills and are comfortable interacting with all levels, including Executive Management, Sales, Finance, and Sales Operations leaders and colleagues.
You are comfortable juggling tasks and able to work productively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment with a great attitude. You can handle highly sensitive, confidential, and non-routine information supporting a rapidly changing organization. You will have a level of integrity and drive to get things done.
You're a self-starter who can recognize where processes can be improved and who will take the initiative to improve them. Using your strong communication skills, you'll effectively collaborate with a variety of people and job functions, accomplishing tasks of moderate to high complexity and scope.
You're also able to analyze and anticipate the needs of your managers, business partners and their projects. When circumstances demand, you'll provide strategic support – such as evaluating data or resolving minor operational issues – with your manager's guidance. You can perform flawlessly and professionally in a challenging and extremely fast-paced environment – along with the grace and willingness to change direction when circumstances demand.
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