Deal Desk Manager

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Our SI partners play a key role in bringing our customers' data-backed ambitions to life by implementing and harnessing the power of the Snowflake Data Cloud for cutting edge workloads and use cases. Through our partnerships, we enable companies to empower their employees with the data they need when and how they need it to better engage their customers, optimize their operations, and transform their products. The Partner Development Director role involves driving and nurturing relationships with our System Integrator (SI) partners. Your primary objective is to strengthen and expand the collaboration between Snowflake and these partners to drive growth. In this role you will be responsible to lead the relationship with Accenture globally. The success of these partnerships is demonstrated by driving growth with our joint customers, delivering key Go-To-Market (GTM) programs, establishing critical executive relationships, enabling partners to grow their Snowflake competency, and delivering customer success. Your success depends on your ability to drive compelling business strategies, GTM motions and relationships with Accenture. Strong communication, experienced strategic alliance leadership, and problem-solving skills are vital to excel in this role. HERE ARE SOME KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS ASSOCIATED WITH: * Strategic Go-to-Market: Work closely with Accenture to build comprehensive joint business plans. Collaborate on joint GTM strategies including strategic objectives and target markets/industries. Define joint industry solutions and offerings with that demonstrates capability while differentiating the partner. Achieve partnership goals including sales quota and marketing activities; this is a quota carrying position. * Practice Development: Inspire Accenture to grow their practices with Snowflake. Evaluate their expertise, capabilities, and delivery quality and activate the GTM programs accordingly. Define certification growth plans and support enablement of the partner. Cultivate strong and lasting relationships with key Sr executives and decision-makers at the partner. * Results-oriented Partner Management: Effective and proven Partner Management skills will be necessary to manage the alliance development lifecycle. This will require the ability to be a self-starter focused on building and owning the 360-degree relationship. * Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with other departments, such as product development, sales, sales engineering, professional services, legal and marketing, to ensure a seamless partner & customer experience. Share partner & customer feedback and insights with relevant teams to drive continuous improvement. This candidate will collaborate with a team of technical experts to drive solution building with our partners. * Co-Marketing Initiatives: Coordinate and execute co-marketing activities, including events, webinars, and content creation, to increase brand visibility and generate leads. * Deal Support: Assist Accenture in navigating Snowflake’s partner program & sales process, including deal registration, proposal support, reporting and alignment with Sales Leadership. Collaborate with internal teams to ensure a smooth and efficient sales cycle. * Deliver on Performance: Monitor the performance and success of Accenture related to specific metrics. Important to have the ability to shift priorities, take risks and think outside of the box to deliver on key criteria. DESIRED EXPERIENCE: * A minimum of 20 years of partner experience, strategic alliances, sales, marketing, business development in technology * Bachelor's degree (MBA preferred) * 8+ years channel sales or channel program management experience with accountability for revenue targets * Track record of success and established relationships with Snowflake’s System Integrators. * Working knowledge of Cloud environments is preferred. * Ability to manage global and regional business plans, track and articulate partner progress. * Strong executive presence and polish. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong problem-solving skills and ability to organize priorities in a dynamic environment. * Travel Required: Estimated at 25-50% (variable) Every Snowflake employee is expected to follow the company’s confidentiality and security standards for handling sensitive data. Snowflake employees must abide by the company’s data security plan as an essential part of their duties. It is every employee's duty to keep customer information secure and confidential. Snowflake is growing fast, and we’re scaling our team to help enable and accelerate our growth. We are looking for people who share our values, challenge ordinary thinking, and push the pace of innovation while building a future for themselves and Snowflake. How do you want to make your impact? For jobs located in the United States, please visit the job posting on the Snowflake Careers Site for salary and benefits information: careers.snowflake.com

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s 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 Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.  At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re 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 you’re 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, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations: Austin, TX 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 Iteration: Partner with cross-functional teams (Legal, Finance, Product) to build, streamline, and automate deal desk processes, architecting autonomous approval workflows and focusing on reducing field friction through relentless automation. * Champion AI & Automation Integration: Champion the integration of LLMs and generative AI tools to automate deal desk workflows, significantly reducing deal cycle times. Identify bottlenecks and implement AI-powered productivity solutions. DESIRABLE SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERIENCE * 6-8+ years of Deal Desk, FP&A, Revenue Operations, or similar experience, with a proven track record of supporting large-scale enterprise sales motions; 3+ years of deal desk experience preferred. * Financial & Sales Acumen: Solid understanding of SaaS metrics, pricing models, and financial concepts like ARR, Gross Margin, churn, and profitability. Experience with revenue recognition principles (e.g., ASC 606) is highly desirable. Experience selling software is a bonus. * Contract & Pricing Knowledge: Experience drafting and interpreting commercial contracts, with a focus on terms that impact revenue recognition and financial risk. Ability to analyze and recommend the best course of action for complex pricing and licensing situations. * Data & AI Literacy: Proficiency in leveraging agentic workflows and prompt engineering to scale influence, extract insights from large datasets, and automate repetitive operational tasks and internal documentation. * Algorithmic Thinking: The ability to understand and audit automated pricing models to ensure alignment with long-term company goals. * Strategic Influence: Demonstrated ability to navigate complex, cross-functional negotiations and make high-judgment decisions in fast-paced environments. * Process Design Mindset: A relentless focus on iterative automation and the ability to translate complex business policies into streamlined, automated logic. * Communication Excellence: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, capable of explaining complex deal structures and financial data to both technical and executive stakeholders. BONUS POINTS * Experience in software sales or sales operations, providing a "boots on the ground" perspective of the sales cycle. * Deep knowledge of Cloud/SaaS infrastructure and the global cybersecurity competitive landscape. If you're excited by fast-paced innovation, dedicated to driving global growth, and want to help build a better internet, we'd love to hear from you. Compensation Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location. Equity This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan. Benefits Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S. Health & Welfare Benefits * Medical/Rx Insurance * Dental Insurance * Vision Insurance * Flexible Spending Accounts * Commuter Spending Accounts * Fertility & Family Forming Benefits * On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program * Global Travel Medical Insurance Financial Benefits * Short and Long Term Disability Insurance * Life & Accident Insurance * 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan * Employee Stock Participation Plan Time Off * Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave * Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave What Makes Cloudflare Special? We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet. Project Galileo: Since 2014, we've equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we've provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states. 1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you! Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process. This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license. Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer. 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