Deal Desk Analyst - Americas
At a glance
Mid-level Revenue & Sales Operations role at cursor. San Francisco · full-time · $200,000–$250,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Work with Americas sales, legal, finance and revenue operations to shape, negotiate and close complex enterprise deals
- Coach sales reps on pricing, competitive positioning, negotiation plans, contract terms and executive involvement
- Spot patterns in deal flow and use them to improve pricing models and deal frameworks with finance and leadership
- Lead projects that make approvals, contracting, pricing guardrails, sales enablement and team cadence more scalable
- Improve Salesforce, Ironclad and pricing processes with the GTM systems team while balancing deal volume and strategic work
What you bring
- At least five years across consulting, investing, commercial strategy, deal desk or a combination of those fields
- Experience with enterprise B2B deals and direct work on contracts worth over one million dollars in annual contract value
- A record of handling many deals while building processes and playbooks that keep your own workload from becoming a bottleneck
- Strong analytical skills, including pricing analysis and Excel-based ROI modeling
Who this fits
This is a high-ownership individual contributor role for someone who can manage several reps and deal cycles while advancing longer-term improvements. You must work in person five days a week in San Francisco or New York City, and be based in or able to relocate to either city.
From the employer
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
DEAL DESK ANALYST - AMERICAS
We're scaling our Deal Desk function and looking for a high-ownership IC to join the Americas team. You'll sit at the intersection of Sales, Legal, Finance, Product, and Business Operations, partnering closely with Americas sales leaders to structure and win the enterprise deals that form the backbone of our growth, and just as importantly, you'll help us systematize and scale how we get those deals done. We're in-person with cozy offices in North Beach, San Francisco and Manhattan, New York, complete with well-stocked libraries. This role requires five days a week in office.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Partner with Americas sales, legal, finance, and revenue operations to structure, negotiate, and close complex enterprise deals
Serve as a thought partner to sales reps on deal strategy: pricing, competitive positioning, negotiation approach, contract structure, executive engagement
Help evolve our pricing model and deal frameworks as the market and customer base shift, spotting trends across your deal flow, surfacing the patterns to finance and leadership, and driving the changes through
Lead cross-functional projects that systematize how we operate at scale, approval workflows, contracting playbooks, pricing guardrails, sales enablement materials, deal desk operating cadence
Improve the tools and processes we already have (Salesforce, Ironclad, our pricing infrastructure) by partnering with the GTM systems team, without needing to build them yourself
Balance a high-volume deal workload with longer-horizon strategic initiatives, managing competing priorities across multiple reps and deal cycles simultaneously
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
5+ years of experience across consulting, investing, commercial strategy, deal desk, or a combination
Experience working on enterprise B2B deals, ideally in SaaS or infrastructure, and direct experience with $1M+ ACV contracts
Experience operating in a high-volume deal environment and a track record of scaling yourself, building processes, playbooks, and enablement so you're not the bottleneck
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
Has operated at a level of owning outcomes, not just tasks
Highly analytical, comfortable analyzing pricing, building ROI models in Excel, and grounding strategic recommendations in data
A point of view. You don't wait to be told what to think, you come with a perspective and know how to back it up
Operate with urgency, ownership, and very little hand-holding
Based in or able to relocate to San Francisco or New York City
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
Onsite role: must be able to work in person at the San Francisco or New York office
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS:
The annual compensation range for this role is listed below.
Annual Salary:
$200,000 - $250,000 USD
Your actual level and base salary will be determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on the following considerations: job-related knowledge and skills, education, and experience.
Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at SpaceXSI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.