Deal Desk Manager

AlphaSense; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a detail-oriented Deal Desk Manager to support sales, legal, and finance teams in managing high-value commercial deals. This role involves deal structuring, governance, compliance, and process optimization. The ideal candidate will have experience in SaaS environments and a solid understanding of contract negotiations, working closely with various departments to enhance deal efficiency.

Benefits

Performance-based bonus

Equity options

Generous benefits program

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in deal desk or contract management in SaaS.
• Strong understanding of B2B commercial contracts.
• Experience with Salesforce, CPQ tools.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Sales, Legal, and Finance to support complex deal structures.
• Develop and maintain deal desk processes to streamline approvals.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and external regulatory requirements.

Skills

Negotiation

Analytical

Communication

Detail-oriented

Tools

Salesforce

CPQ tools

Contract management systems

Job description

About AlphaSense:

The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.

The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 4,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!

Location: United States

Reports to: Director of Sales Operations

About the Team:

The Revenue Operations team at AlphaSense drives productivity and improves efficiency for our account executives, account managers and sales development reps. We create and implement operational reporting & analytics, improve processes, and enable strategic initiatives that impact the revenue organization. At our core, we are a dynamic team of highly driven self-starters who are passionate about operations and thrive in a fast paced, challenging environment.

About the Role:

We are seeking a detail-oriented, strategic, and collaborative Deal Desk Manager to support our sales, legal, and finance teams in managing non-standard and high-value commercial deals. This role will serve as a key partner in driving deal efficiency, pricing governance, and risk mitigation through the review and negotiation of complex contracts. The ideal candidate has a solid understanding of salesforce CPQ, compliance, deal structures, SaaS/technology agreements, and enterprise contract negotiations.

What You’ll Do:

Deal Structuring & Review

• Partner with Sales, Legal, and Finance, and Strategic Initiatives to support complex deal structures and pricing strategies.
• Ensure deals align with internal policies and business objectives

• Work closely with the technical teams that support Salesforce CPQ and contracting; providing feedback on systems improvements that are needed to support complex deals.
• Serve as a liaison between Sales, Legal, Finance, and Product for deal and contract-related matters.
• Communicate status and key risks of complex deals to senior leadership.

Governance & Compliance

• Enforce pricing policies, discount approval thresholds, and contract standards.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls and external regulatory requirements.

Process Optimization

• Develop and maintain deal desk processes and playbooks to streamline approvals and reduce sales cycle times.
• Maintain team SLAs for turnaround changes Identify inefficiencies and implement best practices in deal and contract workflows.Work closely with technical teams that support CPQ and contracting to help implement systems changes that align with best practice.

Who You Are:

• 4+ years of experience in deal desk or contract management in a SaaS or technology environment at a publicly traded company.
• Strong understanding of B2B commercial contracts and deal structures.
• Experience working with CRM (Salesforce), CPQ tools, and contract management systems (e.g., Ironclad, DocuSign CLM).
• Excellent negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to pushback in challenging situations.

Base Compensation Range*: $110,000-$125,000

Additional Components: You may also be offered a performance-based bonus, equity, and a generous benefits program.

*For base compensation, we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function, level and geographic location, benchmarked against similar stage growth companies and internal comparables. In order to be compliant with local legislation, as well as to provide greater transparency to candidates, we share salary ranges on all job postings regardless of desired hiring location. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including geographic location as well as candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

AlphaSense is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.

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