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Program Manager, Deal Desk Operations

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on managing programmatic pricing and product launch pricing readiness for Motive's Deal Desk. You will collaborate with various teams to streamline pricing processes and enhance the use of AI tools, ultimately supporting the Sales and GTM teams in structuring deals efficiently.

Qualifications

  • 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, including scoping ambiguous problems and aligning stakeholders.
  • Hands-on experience with generative AI at work, including prompt engineering and understanding of context windows and token cost.
  • High degree of SQL proficiency and experience building dashboards in BI tools such as Hex or Tableau.
  • Preferred: Experience with Salesforce and CPQ; familiarity with CLM tools such as Ironclad

Responsibilities

  • Own programmatic pricing for partnerships, franchises, networks and promotions by building pricing frameworks and playbooks.
  • Serve as Deal Desk's lead for product launches, defining pricing guardrails and seller guidance in partnership with relevant teams.
  • Build and run pricing enablement, including onboarding playbooks and training, while measuring adoption across the sales organization.
  • Design and roll out approval matrix updates and process improvements, maintaining communication around program updates and risks.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Program Management
  • Business Acumen
  • Communication
  • Detail Oriented
  • Problem Solving

About the company

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Motive

  • Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Large
  • 1,001–5,000
Motive builds technology to improve the safety, productivity and profitability of businesses that power the physical economy. We serve more than 120,000 businesses, across a wide range of industries including construction, field service, agriculture, trucking and logistics, delivery, and more. At Motive, we are committed to building a company that creates products customers love and fostering a culture that enables people to do their best work. We are looking for people from all backgrounds who want to make an impact on the millions of businesses that power the physical economy. Please visit gomotive.com or email us at feedback@gomotive.com for more info.

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Job description

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.

Visit gomotive.com to learn more.

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 USDU.S. metropolitan areas: New York City Area and Seattle, WA$125,000—$172,000 USDOther locations in the United States$126,000—$173,000 USD

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is one of Motive's core values. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. 

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Regarding US-based roles, depending on your role and primary work location, Motive Technologies, Inc. (“Employer”) discloses candidates may be required to execute a non-compete covenant with the Employer. This requirement does not apply to lawyers, interns, or employees working in CA, MN, MT, ND, OK, or where otherwise prohibited by law.

Non-compete covenant terms in all other jurisdictions will be subject to the applicable statutory requirements, including but not limited to, procedures, industry related prohibitions, or salary and compensation thresholds.

All job postings are for existing vacancies. Please note; some interviews or new-hire training sessions may be held in person at one of our global offices.

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