Senior Deal Desk Analyst

Samsara Samsara · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Remote · Deal Desk

This role is for a Senior Deal Desk Analyst at Samsara, a company focused on the Connected Operations Cloud. The analyst will partner with Sales to drive market wins and revenue targets by advising on deal structure, commercial terms, and financials. The role involves evaluating deal economics, mitigating risk, and ensuring compliance. A key aspect is leveraging AI tools (like Glean, Claude) to accelerate deal analysis, summarize documentation, and identify automation opportunities. The ideal candidate has experience with SaaS deal construction, analyzing deal economics, and comfortable incorporating AI tools into workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Sales to guide the structure and execution of Enterprise and Mid-Market deals, optimizing for customer experience, revenue, profitability, and compliance
  2. Advise on deal structure, discounting best practices, and commercial terms — and educate Sales to drive deal velocity and repeatable success
  3. Evaluate deal financials including margin, payment terms, and cash flow to optimize execution against company targets
  4. Mitigate risk by ensuring deals align with company policies and revenue recognition requirements
  5. Monitor the Deal Desk support request and quote approval queue, consistently maintaining SLAs with quality output

Skills

Required

  • 3+ years in Deal Desk, Finance, Sales Operations, or Revenue Operations
  • Proficiency in SaaS deal construction
  • Ability to analyze deal economics and explain commercial levers to Sales
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional partnership skills
  • Strong problem-solving ability with a track record of independently navigating approvals and unblocking non-standard deals
  • Highly responsive with the ability to manage competing priorities
  • Comfortable incorporating AI tools into day-to-day workflows with sound judgment around output quality, data privacy, and human review

Nice to have

  • Experience with Salesforce and Google Sheets / Excel
  • Hands-on experience using AI tools to accelerate commercial analysis, draft communications, or summarize complex documentation
  • Familiarity with prompt engineering or AI-assisted workflows sufficient to evaluate output quality and guide adoption across a team

What the JD emphasized

  • AI tools