Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Deal Desk Lead role sits at a key junction in modern SaaS go to market: cloud marketplaces and strategic partner channels. As more enterprise software spend flows through AWS Marketplace and private offers, the commercial plumbing behind those transactions becomes a differentiator. The listing signals a company formalising its AWS partner motion and needing a dedicated execution layer to make complex, partner led deals repeatable.
For a SaaS career, the work builds durable expertise in quote to cash mechanics under enterprise constraints, including how deal structure affects contracting, billing, revenue recognition, provisioning, and auditability. It also offers a clear view into cross functional decision making across Sales, Legal, Finance, RevOps, and systems, which is the operating environment for scaling SaaS monetisation. Marketplace fluency is increasingly portable across cloud ecosystems and high growth software categories.
This position suits an experienced individual contributor who prefers ownership without carrying a quota or managing a partner relationship. It will fit someone who enjoys translating ambiguity into governance, approvals, and playbooks, and who can influence stakeholders through judgment and process design. Comfort moving between one off complex deals and systemic workflow improvement is the central signal.
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Job Description
About the Team
OpenAI’s Finance and Revenue Operations organization builds the commercial infrastructure that enables the business to scale with speed, discipline, and financial integrity.
Deal Desk partners closely with Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Technical Revenue, Finance, Order Management, Billing Operations, Product, and GTM Systems to structure and execute complex enterprise transactions. We help the business move quickly while ensuring commercial agreements are executable, scalable, and supported by strong operational and financial controls.
As OpenAI expands its strategic cloud partnership motions (AWS), Deal Desk will play an important role in establishing the commercial workflows, guardrails, and execution mechanisms needed to support partner-led and marketplace-enabled enterprise transactions.
About the Role
We are hiring a Deal Desk Lead, Cloud Marketplaces & Partnerships — AWS Focus to lead the commercial execution framework for cloud-partner transactions.
This role will focus on supporting the AWS and OpenAI partnership, including AWS Marketplace and other partner-led enterprise commercial motions.
This is an individual contributor role for someone who combines strong enterprise deal judgment with operational rigor and a builder mindset. You will Translate complex AWS partner-led transactions into executable commercial structures, approvals, and repeatable Deal Desk processes.
You will not own partner relationship management, pipeline generation, or sales closing. Instead, you will own the Deal Desk execution and governance layer that helps AWS-related opportunities move efficiently without creating unmanaged downstream risk across contracting, billing, revenue recognition, provisioning, reporting, controls, auditability, or customer experience.
The right candidate is comfortable moving between complex individual transactions and broader process improvement. They can assess risk, recommend practical paths forward, align cross-functional stakeholders, and convert recurring transaction patterns into scalable guidance, controls, systems requirements, and enablement.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
In this role, you will:
Serve as the Deal Desk subject matter expert, partnering cross-functionally to structure and execute complex AWS Marketplace and partner-led enterprise transactions
Establish clear governance and guardrails for partner-led deals, advising on transaction structures and assessing their downstream impact on contracting, billing, and revenue recognition
Translate emerging commercial requirements into scalable quote-to-cash workflows and systems requirements, identifying friction points to drive process improvements and automation
Assess the downstream operational and financial impact of proposed deal structures across contracting, billing, revenue recognition, and auditability
Build repeatable execution mechanisms, including approval matrices, standard operating procedures, and playbooks to strengthen commercial motion
Support private offer structuring and execution on a day-to-day basis
We’re Seeking Someone With:
Typically 7+ years of individual contributor experience in Deal Desk, Commercial Operations, channel sales, or a related enterprise SaaS/cloud-commercial function
Expertise in structuring and executing complex, non-standard enterprise transactions and building scalable processes, controls, and playbooks
Strong command of quote-to-cash (QTC) processes, including the downstream operational and financial impact on contracting, billing, and revenue recognition
Demonstrated ability to assess risk, recommend clear paths forward, and influence senior cross-functional stakeholders (including Sales, Legal, and Finance) without formal authority
Hands-on experience with enterprise commercial systems like Salesforce, CPQ, and marketplace tooling
Preferred Qualifications
Deep experience supporting AWS Marketplace transactions (private offers, cloud commitments, billing, etc.) or comparable commercial motions across major cloud ecosystems (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Snowflake, etc.).
Familiarity with AWS co-sell or partner-led enterprise sales motions and the respective cross-functional responsibilities (Sales, Partnerships, Legal, Finance, Deal Desk).
Experience with marketplace transaction dependencies, including entitlements, provisioning, metering, usage reporting, billing adjustments, reconciliation, and technical revenue/accounting support.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You:
Embrace a builder mindset, driving process improvement, and establishing scalable structures, controls, and repeatable execution mechanisms in a developing commercial motion.
Balance commercial urgency with operational discipline, ensuring billing accuracy, revenue integrity, auditability, and strong customer outcomes.
Excel at cross-functional coordination and communication for complex, partner-led transactions, eager to strengthen strategic cloud partnerships like AWS.
About OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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