Deal Desk Manager
US-CA-Dublin · US-NY-New York · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 7, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- US-CA-Dublin · US-NY-New York
About the role
- We are hiring a Deal Desk Manager for our Deal Desk team in a strategic, high-influence role at the intersection of Sales, Finance, Legal, and Operations.
- Your commercial judgment shapes how Snowflake structures its most complex transactions and advances the deal frameworks that underpin our go-to-market motion.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to Sales VPs and executive leadership on the structure, negotiation, and approval of complex, high-value transactions across Snowflake's Acquisitions and Enterprise accounts.
- Own and drive deal strategy for a portfolio of strategic opportunities, setting the analytical and commercial framing that enables Sales leadership to make confident decisions at speed.
- Lead cross-functional alignment across Sales, Finance, Legal, Revenue Accounting, Professional Services, and Operations, ensuring deal processes scale with Snowflake's growth and complexity.
- Define, design, and continuously improve deal policies, approval frameworks, and escalation paths, serving as a primary voice on what good deal governance looks like at Snowflake.
- Synthesize deal concession data and commercial trends into structured insights that directly inform Finance and Sales leadership decisions.
- Mentor and develop junior Deal Desk team members, raising the overall capability of the team through coaching on deal structuring, commercial judgment, and stakeholder communication.
- Partner with Sales Enablement and Operations to drive adoption of improved deal processes across the field, influencing behavior at scale.
- Champion AI-assisted deal workflows and automation tooling to accelerate review cycles and free the team to focus on strategic judgment over process administration.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in deal desk, commercial finance, contracts, or sales operations, with a demonstrated track record of owning complex deal cycles end-to-end.
- Ability to read, understand, and draft contractual business terms and conditions for complex, multi-year transactions.
- Deep understanding of revenue recognition principles and US GAAP, and their practical application in SaaS and consumption-based commercial models.
- Proven ability to influence executive-level stakeholders, with strong written and verbal communication skills that translate complexity into clarity across all levels of the organization.
- Experience defining or significantly evolving deal policies and approval frameworks within a high-growth organization.
- Ability to work across functional boundaries, building credibility and alignment with Legal, Finance, Sales, and Operations without formal authority.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to surface patterns in deal data and translate them into actionable guidance for leadership.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Previous experience with complex contract negotiations and long enterprise sales cycles.
- Exposure to AI-assisted contract review or deal intelligence tooling.
- Background working cross-functionally on GTM transformation or commercial strategy initiatives.
- Experience scaling deal desk operations in a hypergrowth environment.
Skills
- US GAAP
- Deal Desk
- Commercial Finance
- Sales Operations