Deal Desk Manager

CloudFlare; San Francisco (CA); Sur place; USD 120 000 - 160 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Cloudflare in the United States is seeking a Deal Desk Manager to lead the AI-driven deal desk, shaping pricing, scoping, and approvals for large enterprise opportunities.

You will transition sales processes to automated, AI-augmented workflows, partnering with Sales to maximize velocity, LTV, and margin while reducing friction across the deal lifecycle.

Available locations include Austin, Seattle, and Denver, with a focus on enterprise deals and data-driven decision making.

Responsabilités

• Orchestrate non-standard, high-value enterprise deals, providing high-judgment guidance that balances differentiation with long-term business health.
• Serve as Sales Co-pilot using AI-driven data to maximize deal velocity, improve LTV, and ensure discovery reflects true customer needs; analyze pricing and terms and recommend actions.
• Curate and tune AI agents by adjusting automated agents and models to ensure compliance and accuracy at scale.
• Drive process improvements to shorten the sales cycle and increase deal quality.

Description du poste

Austin, TX, United States

Position Title: Deal Desk Manager

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worlds largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazines Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the Worlds Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, were not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; were looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If youre the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, youll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, TX | Seattle, WA | Denver, CO

About the Department

The Deal Desk team is a critical component of the Finance function, acting as a strategic partner to the global Sales organization. We are responsible for partnering with sales to structure, negotiate, and close complex deals. We ensure that deals meet the requirements of "good business" while also keeping our customers' best interest in mind. We are committed to building a data-centric and AI-augmented Deal Desk that leverages predictive analytics and automated workflows to optimize pricing in real-time and automate routine approvals, allowing for deeper strategic focus.

About the Role

As a Deal Desk Manager, you will be the architect of our AI-driven deal desk, transitioning our sales process from manual workflows to an intelligent, automated engine that spans from initial scoping to final execution. By leveraging agentic workflows and automated data layers, the focus shifts to high-judgment architecture for non-standard enterprise deals. The objective is to serve as a high-influence "Sales Co-pilot," using AI-driven insights to maximize deal velocity and Long-Term Value (LTV) while relentlessly reducing friction through iterative process automation.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate Strategic Deal Architecture: Lead the structuring and execution of non-standard, high-value enterprise deals, providing high-judgment guidance that balances competitive differentiation with long-term business health.
• Sales Co-pilot & Strategic Influence: Serve as a strategic partner to Sales leadership, utilizing AI-driven data to maximize deal velocity, improve LTV, and ensure discovery reflects true customer needs. Perform analysis on pricing and deal terms, leveraging AI insights to recommend "next best action" for deal structuring and margin optimization.
• Curate and Tune AI Agents: Manage the enterprise deal approval ecosystem by tuning automated agents and models to ensure compliance and accuracy at scale.
• Drive Process