Business Value Consultant

Decagon Decagon · Vertical AI · San Francisco, CA · Sales

The Business Value Consultant will partner with Sales on strategic enterprise opportunities, translating Decagon's conversational AI platform into quantified business impact. This role involves building ROI models, business cases, and value frameworks to accelerate deal cycles and increase win rates. The consultant will also operationalize value-based selling methodologies and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Account Executives on high-priority enterprise opportunities to uncover customer pain points, quantify impact, and shape deal strategy. Build ROI models, business cases, and value hypotheses tied to customer-specific metrics (cost reduction, revenue lift, efficiency gains, CSAT improvement). Lead executive-level value conversations with CFOs, COOs, and senior business stakeholders. Support negotiation and procurement processes with defensible financial justification
  2. Develop industry- and persona-specific value frameworks aligned to Decagon’s core use case. Standardize ROI models, benchmarks, and value drivers across segments (enterprise, mid-market, verticals). Create reusable assets (value calculators, business case templates, benchmarking data) to enable broader GTM teams. Partner with Marketing and Product to refine value messaging and positioning
  3. Embed value engineering into the sales process from early discovery through close. Train and enable AEs, SEs, and post-sales teams on value-based selling methodologies. Establish best practices for linking product capabilities to measurable business outcomes. Ensure consistency and rigor in how Decagon positions and proves value in-market
  4. Collaborate with Product and Agent Success to capture realized customer value and feed it back into future deals. Partner with Finance to align on value assumptions, pricing strategy, and deal economics. Work with RevOps to track impact on pipeline, win rates, deal size, and sales cycle

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years in value engineering, management consulting, sales engineering, strategic finance, or similar roles
  • Proven experience partnering with Sales on complex enterprise deals and influencing outcomes
  • Strong financial modeling skills (Excel / Google Sheets) with the ability to build clear, defensible ROI models
  • Ability to translate technical capabilities into business outcomes that resonate with executive stakeholders
  • Executive presence - comfortable leading conversations with CFOs, COOs, and senior decision-makers
  • Familiarity with enterprise buying cycles and value-based selling methodologies

Nice to have

  • Experience in SaaS, AI/ML, customer operations, or contact center ecosystems
  • Background in consulting (e.g., strategy, operations, or digital transformation) or investment/strategic finance
  • Experience building or scaling a value engineering function in a high-growth company
  • Familiarity with GTM systems (Salesforce, Gong, etc.) and data-driven sales processes
  • Experience in regulated industries (financial services, healthcare, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • Partnering with Sales on our most strategic enterprise opportunities
  • translating Decagon’s platform into clear, quantified business impact
  • develop compelling, data-driven business cases that accelerate deal cycles, increase win rates, and drive larger, more strategic investments
  • build and scale our value engineering function
  • Proven experience partnering with Sales on complex enterprise deals and influencing outcomes
  • Strong financial modeling skills
  • Ability to translate technical capabilities into business outcomes
  • Executive presence
  • Familiarity with enterprise buying cycles and value-based selling methodologies