Senior Deal Desk Manager

Intercom Intercom · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA · Sales

Senior Deal Desk Manager to join Revenue Operations team. Own end-to-end deal strategy function — shaping how Fin structures, prices, and closes its most complex enterprise opportunities. Partner with senior Sales, Finance, Product, and Legal leadership. Design, implement, and refine deal governance frameworks. Lead evolution of quote-to-order process and CPQ tooling. Translate complex deal data into commercial narratives. Identify and act on trends in enterprise deal flow. Serve as senior subject matter expert on enterprise deal structuring.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the strategic deal review process for Fin's largest enterprise opportunities, including non-standard pricing, multi-product bundles, multi-year commitments, and complex negotiation cycles.
  2. Partner directly with senior Sales leadership, Finance, Product, and Legal to structure enterprise deals that balance growth targets, margin goals, and long-term customer value.
  3. Design, implement, and continuously refine deal governance frameworks — including pricing guardrails, approval workflows, and escalation policies — that scale with the business.
  4. Lead the evolution of the quote-to-order process and CPQ tooling, driving automation and efficiency improvements that reduce enterprise sales cycle times and minimize friction.
  5. Translate complex deal data into clear commercial narratives and recommendations that inform executive decision-making, pricing strategy, and Go-to-Market planning.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years in Deal Desk, Revenue Strategy, or Sales Operations supporting enterprise sales in a high-growth SaaS or AI company.
  • Proven track record owning end-to-end deal strategy for complex, high-value enterprise transactions — including multi-year, multi-product, and custom-structured agreements.
  • Advanced Excel and modeling skills, including multi-scenario economics and sensitivity analyses.
  • Strong commercial acumen and deep understanding of enterprise SaaS business models, pricing and packaging, and the quote-to-order lifecycle — with the ability to assess deal economics, evaluate risk, and make sound recommendations under pressure.
  • Experience designing and scaling deal governance frameworks, policies, and playbooks.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and advise senior stakeholders across Sales, Finance, and Legal without direct authority, and to distill complexity into clear, actionable insights for executive audiences.

Nice to have

  • Experience at a high-growth company that has scaled its enterprise segment through significant revenue milestones.
  • Familiarity with AI product pricing models and usage-based or consumption-based deal structures.
  • Knowledge of software revenue recognition principles (ASC 606).
  • Experience partnering with Product or Pricing teams on enterprise Go-to-Market packaging decisions.

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise opportunities
  • enterprise deals
  • enterprise sales cycle times
  • enterprise deal flow
  • enterprise deal structuring
  • enterprise SaaS
  • enterprise segment