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Director, Pricing Strategy – Deal Intelligence
Location
Texas
Posted
13 days ago
Salary
$175K - $225K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Director, Pricing Strategy – Deal Intelligence
Trace3
• Set and own company-wide pricing strategy for products and services: margin targets, price positioning, discount governance, and the deal review framework that enforces them • Own deal-level margin improvement as a managed, measurable target: track bookings margin versus guidance floor by product family, identify where margin is leaking and why, and drive systematic improvement quarter over quarter • Define pricing guardrails and exception thresholds; establish clear decision rights for rep-level approvals, deal desk reviews, and escalations to sales leadership or Finance • Partner with Finance on margin target setting and profitability review cadences; ensure pricing strategy reflects the economics of the business, not just competitive positioning • Work directly with the SVP of Revenue Operations and regional sales VPs to drive pricing attainment as a managed behavior across the selling organization • Own the pricing guidance algorithm: understand the clustering methodology, product family taxonomy, and deal categorization logic well enough to govern updates, explain the output to sales leadership, and defend recommendations under scrutiny • Approve updates to the guidance algorithm based on Technical Pricing Analyst recommendations; partner with the GTM Tooling team on execution of approved changes in the tool • Drive deal-guidance adherence from a low baseline toward an 80 percent-plus target; treat exception rates as diagnostic data, not acceptable noise • Own the Pricing Guidance tool pilot: define success criteria, coordinate the seller pilot group, review exception reports from day one, and lead the post-pilot retrospective that shapes the scale rollout • Oversee deal intelligence operations: the team of Deal Intelligence Analysts who provide pricing consultative support to the frontline, assist GMs with deal review decisions, and provide guidance based on prior approval cycles • Set deal review thresholds and response times; define what requires review, who owns it, and what the SLA is — with a target deal-desk cycle time of less than 24 hours • Build the deal review as a learning system: every exception, every approval, and every loss contains signal about where the pricing framework needs adjustment • Lead the Technical Pricing Analyst who processes and synthesizes margin improvement, win/loss, and deal velocity analytics and recommends adjustments to the guidance algorithm • Own the analytical foundation the pricing function runs on: product family tagging accuracy, deal categorization completeness, and the data quality standards that make the guidance output trustworthy • Translate analytics outputs into pricing strategy recommendations the selling organization can act on; the output of this function is a decision, not a report • Build and lead the Pricing and Deal Intelligence team: Technical Pricing Analyst (1) and Deal Intelligence Analysts (3); hire the team, set performance standards, and develop their capabilities over time • Establish the operating standard for the pricing function: what a deal review looks like, how exception rates are tracked and reported, how algorithm updates are proposed and approved, and what the weekly cadence with sales leadership looks like • Build a pricing function that sellers experience as a deal partner that makes them more competitive, not a compliance function that slows them down.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in pricing strategy, deal desk, revenue management, or commercial analytics, with at least 3 years in a senior role owning a pricing or deal intelligence function
- Demonstrated track record setting and managing pricing strategy in a complex B2B environment with a multi-product portfolio; has owned margin targets, not just pricing policies
- Hands-on deal desk experience: defining review thresholds, running deal reviews with sales leadership, managing exception governance, and tracking deal-level margin outcomes
- Analytical depth: comfortable interpreting pricing model outputs, win/loss data, and deal velocity signals and translating them into actionable strategy recommendations
- Track record of improving pricing discipline in environments where pricing was previously decentralized or rep-dependent; has moved an organization from gut-call pricing toward data-guided guardrails
- Player-coach orientation: this role requires personal involvement in deal reviews, algorithm interpretation, and weekly sales leadership engagement alongside managing a team of analysts
- Background in technology distribution, VAR, or systems integration — understands how deals are constructed in a multi-vendor, channel-intensive environment and how margin variance at the deal level accumulates into material EBITDA impact
- Experience owning or governing an analytical pricing tool, pricing algorithm, or CPQ platform in a B2B technology sales environment
- Experience working alongside a management consulting firm on a pricing transformation initiative: knows how to receive and sustain a consulting-designed pricing methodology independently after the engagement closes
- Familiarity with NetSuite or ConnectWise as CRM and quoting systems of record
- Experience in a high-accountability environment where pricing attainment was a senior leadership metric with defined targets and regular review cadences.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents
- 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Match, 529 College Savings Plan, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance, and Long-Term Disability
- Competitive Compensation
- Training and development programs
- Major offices stocked with snacks and beverages
- Collaborative and cool culture
- Work-life balance and generous paid time off
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