Yext

Deal Desk Strategy Manager

Yext$124K — $207K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in Deal Strategy, Deal Desk, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, FP&A or Revenue Accounting in a B2B SaaS environment.
  • Genuine curiosity about AI tools and their applications in workflows.
  • Strong understanding of margin, unit economics, and optimal deal characteristics.
  • Proficiency in Salesforce, CPQ, Excel, and BI tools.
  • Ability to earn trust with sales reps and maintain a commercial stance under pressure.
  • Experience in coaching or mentoring junior analysts.
  • Clear and concise communicator, effective in translating complex deal economics.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary commercial advisor to North America Enterprise Sales throughout the sales cycle.
  • Model and evaluate intricate deal structures to balance customer economics with business objectives.
  • Own cross-functional management for non-standard deals, ensuring alignment across relevant teams.
  • Evolve pricing policies and maintain scalable deal templates and playbooks.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure alignment between deal execution and commercial strategy.
  • Identify and advocate for AI tool adoption in deal review and workflow automation.
  • Mentor analysts to enhance their commercial judgment and build a reputable sales partnership.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Vacation and sick leave.
  • Potential for performance-based variable pay programs.
Full Job Description
The Deal Strategy team is the commercial backbone of Yext's sales organization. We're in the room on the deals that matter - advising on structure, maintaining pricing integrity, and making sure complex transactions close in a way that works for the customer and for the business. This role sits at the intersection of Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, and RevOps, and requires someone who earns trust as a strategic partner.

What You'll Do

Commercial Advisory & Deal Structuring
    • Serve as the primary commercial advisor to North America Enterprise Sales across the full sales cycle - deal structure, margins, pricing strategy, and commercial terms.
    • Model and evaluate complex deal structures including multi-year commits, ramp pricing, volume tiers, and enterprise license agreements, balancing customer economics with business objectives.
    • Own cross-functional management for non-standard deals, coordinating across Finance, Legal, and RevOps to reach alignment without stalling the close.

Pricing Governance & Process
    • Apply and evolve Yext's pricing policies and approval frameworks - maintaining deal templates, playbooks, and escalation paths that scale with the business.
    • Partner with key stakeholders and sales leadership to maintain consistency between deal execution and broader commercial strategy.
    • Identify opportunities to apply AI tools to deal review, scenario modeling, and workflow automation, and advocate for their adoption

Coaching and Team Development
    • Mentor deal strategy analysts on commercial judgment, not just process execution.
    • Help build the function's reputation as a trusted sales partner, not a compliance layer.

Insights & Reporting
    • Track deal metrics including discount rates, approval cycle times, and ACV trends, and surface patterns that inform commercial strategy.
    • Build and maintain dashboards that give Sales and Finance leadership visibility into deal quality and pipeline health.
    • Translate deal activity into actionable insights for QBR and executive reporting.

What You Have
  • 6+ years in Deal Strategy, Deal Desk, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, FP&A or Revenue Accounting in a B2B SaaS environment.
  • Genuine curiosity about AI tools and how they could be applied to workflows and analysis.
  • Commercial instincts - you understand margin, unit economics, and what a 'good' deal looks like.
  • Strong Salesforce, CPQ, Excel and BI tool experience preferred.
  • The ability to earn credibility with sales reps under pressure, and hold a commercial position without creating unnecessary friction.
  • Experience coaching or mentoring junior analysts.
  • Clear, concise communicator - you can translate complex deal economics into a crisp recommendation for a senior audience.
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field.


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Pay ranges at Yext are established based on an analysis of salaries for positions with a similar level of accountability and impact in the relevant labor market. Salary levels are expected to change to reflect an employee's job performance (results and impact) over time. Salaries at the time of hire are typically offered in the lower to middle of the above-referenced range in order to provide the opportunity to reflect performance-based increases over time. In addition to base salaries, employees at Yext are typically eligible for a comprehensive package of benefits including medical, dental and vision benefits; life insurance; short term and long-term disability; 401(k) retirement plan; and vacation and sick leave. Successful candidates may also be eligible for variable pay programs based on performance relative to goals and targets.

Annual Base Pay Range

$124,650-$207,500 USD

About Yext

Yext is a software and technology services company that provides a cloud-based platform for managing digital knowledge and online presence. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Yext's platform is used by businesses to manage their online listings, reviews, and other information across multiple platforms and devices. The company has been recognized by Forbes as one of America's Most Promising Companies and by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America.
Learn more about Yext
Size
1,400 employees
Market Cap
$744.7 million
Industry
Net Income
-$94.6 million
Founded
2006
5 Year Trend
+25.7%
Revenue
$354.6 million
NASDAQ

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