Deal Desk Manager
3/20/2026
The Deal Desk Manager will serve as the primary advisor to Account Executives on deal strategy, pricing, and commercial structures while owning the end-to-end review process for non-standard terms across departments like Finance and Legal. This role is also responsible for building and maintaining pricing frameworks, creating financial models to assess profitability, and improving the quote-to-cash workflow for consistency and speed.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
- Serve as the first-line advisor to AEs on deal strategy, pricing, and commercial structures; propose options that balance customer needs with Glean’s financial and risk guardrails.
- Own the end-to-end deal review process for non-standard terms (pricing, discounting, order forms, term/renewal, usage, data and privacy, SLAs), coordinating with Finance, Legal, Security, and Leadership as needed.
- In partnership with Finance, build and maintain pricing and discount frameworks, approval matrices, and playbooks that scale across segments, regions, and partners.
- Create and iterate financial models in partnership with Finance to assess deal profitability, discount impact, margins, and payback; surface insights to guide negotiations and leadership decisions.
- Improve the quote-to-cash workflow (e.g., CPQ, Salesforce, order forms, SKUs, usage metrics), driving consistency, time-to-close, and data quality.
- Standardize order form templates and clause libraries; maintain guardrails for non-standard requests and clear escalation paths.
- Partner with RevOps on forecast health, pipeline risk, and quarter-end execution; provide visibility on in-flight approvals and blockers.
- Operationalize new monetization motions (e.g., usage-based pricing, new packages, channel/partner programs) and ensure downstream readiness.
- Enable the field (AEs, SEs, CSMs) on pricing, policies, and deal strategy; deliver concise playbooks, office hours, and training.
- Establish core KPIs and dashboards (cycle time, approval SLA, discount trends, win rates, gross margin) and drive continuous improvement.
- Manage the operational loading and coordination of private marketplace offers across AWS and GCP Marketplace, ensuring deal details are accurate, complete, and aligned with internal approval, order management, and booking requirements.
- 6+ years of experience in Deal Desk, Finance/FP&A, Sales Strategy/RevOps, or related analytical roles in enterprise SaaS.
- Proven track record structuring complex enterprise deals and advising sales on pricing, packaging, and commercial terms.
- Strong financial modeling skills; ability to quantify trade-offs and guide data-driven decisions.
- Experience with AWS and GCP Marketplace offers.
- Deep familiarity with SaaS commercial agreements and common non-standard terms (e.g., MFN, usage and true-up, data/security, liability/indemnity, renewal/termination).
- Hands-on experience with Salesforce; exposure to CPQ and quote-to-cash systems; comfort defining requirements with RevOps/IT.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication; calm under quarter-end pressure.
- Owner mindset with bias for action, clarity, and repeatable process design.
- Experience operationalizing usage-based pricing and/or multi-product packaging.
- Background working with channel/partners and indirect motions.
- International deal exposure (e.g., EU/Japan) and localization considerations.
- Familiarity with public company controls and revenue recognition concepts.
- This role is hybrid (3 days a week in our Bangalore office)
AI-First Mindset at Glean:
At Glean, AI fluency is core to how we work and we're committed to ensuring every new hire feels confident integrating AI into their everyday work. As part of the interview process, you'll complete a brief AI-focused exercise or discussion so we can understand how you think about, design, and use AI to drive impact in your role. Feel free to reference any tools, platforms, or workflows you use today — prior Glean experience isn't required.
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