Program Manager, Deal Desk Operations

Who we are

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves nearly 100,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About the role

Motive is looking for a Program Manager, Deal Desk Operations to own programmatic pricing, product launch pricing readiness, and AI-powered tooling for our Deal Desk. Reporting to the Sr. Director of Deal Desk, you will manage projects, deliverables, training and communications for strategic initiatives that help our Sales and GTM teams price and structure deals faster and with greater consistency.

You will turn recurring pricing and process requests into scalable programs, playbooks and AI-enabled tools, and you will partner across Sales, Finance, Product, Partnerships, Legal, Sales Enablement, GTM AI Ops and Enterprise Systems to get them adopted.

What you'll do

• Own programmatic pricing for partnerships, franchises, networks and promotions: build the pricing frameworks, intake and approval paths, and playbooks that let the Deal Desk team handle these requests consistently.
• Serve as Deal Desk's lead for product launches, defining pricing guardrails, CPQ and SKU readiness, approval rules and seller guidance in partnership with Product, Finance and Enterprise Systems.
• Build and run pricing enablement: onboarding playbooks, trainings, deal-structuring guides and launch communications, and measure adoption across the sales org.
• Design and roll out approval matrix updates and process improvements, with a communications cadence around program updates, blockers and risks.
• Ask "How can AI solve this?" of every Deal Desk workflow. Identify bottlenecks and prototype agents, automations and applications using tools such as Glean, n8n, Salesforce (including Agentforce) and models like Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude.
• Co-own the Deal Desk Pricing Tool and AI roadmap with GTM AI Ops: gather user feedback, write requirements and user stories, prioritize the backlog, run UAT and drive launch.
• Manage the cost envelope for production AI use cases, balancing model performance against token consumption.
• Act as Deal Desk's Salesforce and CPQ expert, and liaise with Business Intelligence and Enterprise Systems so system changes are reflected in Deal Desk reporting.
• Build dashboards and apply analytical rigor to Deal Desk policies and recommendations to support company financial goals.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of operations experience in a high-growth technology company in Deal Desk, Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Pricing or Business Operations.
• Proven program management skills: you can scope an ambiguous problem, align stakeholders and ship a repeatable process or tool.
• Hands-on experience with generative AI at work, including prompt engineering and a working understanding of context windows, token cost and agent guardrails. Experience with n8n, Python or other automation tools is a plus.
• Strong pricing and commercial acumen, including ASP, margin, credits and ARR/ACV. Partner, channel or franchise pricing experience is a plus.
• Experience with Salesforce and CPQ; familiarity with CLM tools such as Ironclad preferred.
• High degree of SQL proficiency and experience building dashboards in BI tools such as Hex or Tableau.
• Strong slidecraft and storytelling, with exceptional written and verbal communication.Attention to detail, sound judgment, and a bias toward action in a fast-paced, hands-on environment.

Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting Motive Perks & Benefits .

The compensation range for this position will depend on where you reside. Motive uses three geographic zones to determine pay range. For this role, the compensation ranges are:

San Francisco, California

$144,000 — $198,000 USD

U.S. metropolitan areas: New York City Area and Seattle, WA

$125,000 — $172,000 USD

Other locations in the United States

$126,000 — $173,000 USD

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