Deal Operations Strategist

ElevenLabs ElevenLabs · AI Frontier · United States · Finance & RevOps

This role is for a Deal Operations Strategist at ElevenLabs, an AI research and product company. The strategist will be the primary expert for the North American sales team on complex deals, owning pricing strategy, deal structuring, and process optimization. They will partner with various internal teams (engineering, finance, legal, product) to ensure deals close efficiently and will develop pricing frameworks and analytics to inform strategic decisions. The role requires experience with CPQ tools, finance or deal pricing, financial modeling, and process optimization. Bonus points for AI/ML pricing knowledge and experience scaling deal desks in high-growth environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the pricing and deal structure for complex enterprise deals, advising sales on commercials and trade-offs in real time to keep things moving toward close.
  2. Work closely with engineering to maintain and evolve our Configure Price Quote tool.
  3. Translate customer requirements into deal structures that work commercially and operationally, knowing where to flex and where to hold firm.
  4. Own the path through internal complexity, aligning Finance, Legal, Product, and leadership so deals don't stall on process.
  5. Partner with Finance to build deal-level P&L models and communicate pricing trends back to the business, informing strategic pricing decisions at the leadership level

Skills

Required

  • Configuring and maintaining CPQ rulesets, price books, and approval workflows
  • Experience in finance or deal pricing at a company, or experience within investment banking or management consulting
  • Excellent financial modeling, verbal, and written communication skills
  • Proven track record of process optimizations or automation
  • Ability to make value judgements that balance business, financial, and legal priorities

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of AI/ML industry pricing models and competitive landscape
  • Experience scaling deal desk processes in a high-growth environment

What the JD emphasized

  • complex enterprise deals
  • complex
  • critical customers
  • non-standard terms
  • internal complexity
  • deal-level P&L models
  • strategic pricing decisions
  • pricing frameworks
  • discount guardrails
  • approval policies
  • deals are slowing down
  • CPQ rulesets
  • price books
  • approval workflows
  • deal pricing
  • process optimizations
  • value judgements
  • AI/ML industry pricing models
  • competitive landscape
  • scaling deal desk processes