About Delinea:
Delinea is a pioneer in securing human and machine identities through intelligent, centralized authorization, empowering organizations to seamlessly govern their interactions across the modern enterprise. Leveraging AI-powered intelligence, Delinea’s leading cloud-native Identity Security Platform applies context throughout the entire identity lifecycle – across cloud and traditional infrastructure, data, SaaS applications, and AI. It is the only platform that enables you to discover all identities – including workforce, IT administrator, developers, and machines – assign appropriate access levels, detect irregularities, and respond to threats in real-time. With deployment in weeks, not months, 90% fewer resources to manage than the nearest competitor, and a 99.995% uptime, Delinea delivers robust security and operational efficiency without compromise. Learn more about Delinea on Delinea.com, LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Join our passionate, global team at Delinea and help us make the world a safer and more secure place. Our success is driven by world-class product leadership, outstanding engineers, and strategic investment from TPG. We value diversity, innovation, and a culture of respect and fairness. If you're ready to push boundaries and challenge the status quo in security, we want to hear from you.

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Summary:

Delinea is seeking a Director, Global Deal Desk to lead and develop the function that supports our most strategic and complex commercial transactions. This leader will partner with Sales, Legal, and Sales Operations to structure deals, improve quote-to-cash execution and efficiency, and ensure pricing and approval discipline.

This is a highly cross-functional leadership role for a commercial operator who can help Sales move faster while protecting the business. This role reports into the Finance organization, directly to the Vice President of OTC and Revenue Accounting. The role is a key leader within the greater quote-to-cash process and will partner with various other teams including order management, billing, and revenue recognition. This role will lead a global team of analysts, located across APAC, Europe, US and Mexico.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and scale the Global Deal Desk function supporting new business, expansion, renewals, and strategic enterprise deals as well as the evolution of new sales motions and routes to market.

• Partner with Sales to structure complex SaaS transactions, including multi-year agreements, ramped transactions, co-terms, bundles, custom pricing, and non-standard terms.

• Own timely deal review, approval workflows, escalation paths, and commercial guardrails.

• Drive consistency in pricing, discounting, contract structure, and deal documentation with an eye for creativity and scalability and a mindset for a winning partnership.

• Evolve and transform the quote-to-cash process driving improved deal velocity and scalability by implementing AI and machine learning solutions.

• Partner with Sales, Legal, and Sales Operations to evaluate deal economics, risk, billing and cash flow, and revenue recognition considerations.

• Improve quote-to-cash processes across CRM, CPQ, CLM, billing, and ERP systems. Delinea utilizes Salesforce and NetSuite systems.

• Provide insights on discounting trends, approval workflow and related cycle times, deal quality, and policy exceptions.

• Support pricing and packaging changes, new product launches, SKU updates, sales enablement, and acquisition integrations.

• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing Global Deal Desk team.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to Sales leadership and executive stakeholders on strategic deals.

What You’ll Bring:

• 10+ years in Deal Desk, Finance, or Sales Operations.

• Led a Global Deal Desk team and owned complex quote-to-cash processes in a SaaS or recurring-revenue business.

• Strong understanding of SaaS deal structures, including ARR, ACV, renewals, expansions, co-terms, ramped contracts, discounting, and bundling.

• Experience supporting enterprise sales teams on complex, high-value transactions.

• Strong commercial judgment, balancing speed, customer needs, sales strategy, and business risk.

• Extensive experience with Salesforce CRM, CPQ, and CLM systems.

• Experience building and leading a globally dispersed team.

• Partners and influences across Sales and Sales Operations, Legal, Finance and Accounting, Product, and Customer Success.

• Implemented AI and machine learning to drive operational efficiency and automation.

• Understanding of revenue recognition rules (ASC 606) and non-standard commercial terms.

• Clear written and verbal communication, strong executive presence, and a practical, solutions-oriented mindset.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or related field

Nice to Have:

• Cybersecurity, enterprise software, identity, or cloud infrastructure experience.

• Experience with ERP (NetSuite), and revenue systems (Zuora) or similar.

• Experience with CPQ implementations and other relevant system adoptions.

• Experience in a high-growth, IPO-readiness, or public-company environment.

Why work at Delinea?

• We're passionate problem-solvers helping the world's largest organizations protect what matters most: their human and machine identities.

• We invest in people who are smart, self-motivated, and collaborative.

• What we offer in return is meaningful work, a culture of innovation and great career progression.

At Delinea, our core values are STRONG and guide our behaviors and success:

• Spirited - We bring energy and passion to everything we do

• Trust - We act with integrity and deliver on our commitments

• Respect - We listen, value different perspectives, and work as one team

• Ownership - We take initiative and follow through

• Nimble - We adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

• Global - We embrace diverse people and ideas to drive better outcomes

We believe weaving these core values into our day-to-day actions, and our process for hiring, evaluating, and promoting employees, helps us cultivate a work environment that embraces collaboration and camaraderie.

We take care of our employees. We offer competitive salaries, a meaningful bonus program, and excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance, as well as pension/retirement matching, comprehensive life insurance, an employee assistance program, time off plans, and paid company holidays.

Delinea is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type with regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates are required to complete comprehensive criminal background check, verification of education, and verification of employment, per employment policy. In addition, all publicly posted social media sites may be reviewed.