The role, in a nutshell:
Chainguard is hiring a Deal Desk Analyst to join our growing Sales Operations team. As a key member of a small but mighty Deal Desk function, you’ll partner closely with our global Sales team to support the end-to-end deal lifecycle. From pricing strategy to quote creation and contract execution, you’ll ensure deals move efficiently, align with internal policies, and scale with our growth. This is an exciting opportunity to build high-impact, scalable processes in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
What You Will Do:
- Deal Desk Management:
- Deliver full quote-to-signature support for global Account Executives, including quote creation, pricing approvals, order form (OF) generation, and accurate opportunity closure in Salesforce.
- Manage and monitor the quote queue and approval workflows, ensuring timely responses and maintaining exceptional organizational standards.
- Proactively drive deal momentum, especially at month- and quarter-end, by resolving blockers and delivering excellent partner support.
- Provide pricing insights, product guidance, and analytical support on large, complex, or non-standard deal structures.
Systems Oversight:
- Help administer Chainguard’s CPQ (Subskribe) and CLM platform (Ironclad), including updates to the company's price books and legal workflows.
- Maintain high standards of data integrity and system hygiene across CPQ, CLM, and CRM platform (Salesforce).
- Ensure seamless order management and alignment across internal systems for accurate product and partner attribution tracking.
Process Ownership and Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Support the documentation of Deal Desk processes and procedures to drive clarity, efficiency, and scalable growth across the organization.
- Partner closely with stakeholders in Sales, Finance, Legal, and Product, ensuring seamless alignment and coordination to streamline deal execution, uphold compliance, and remove roadblocks.
- Serve as a trusted cross-functional partner and primary point of contact for deal-related matters, fostering collaboration and accountability across multiple teams.
About You:
- 2-3 years of Deal Desk experience within an Enterprise SaaS B2B environment
- Administrative experience with a CPQ and CLM tools a plus
- Strong business acumen, analytical and problem-solving skills, and demonstrated ability to partner with upstream GTM teams and other cross-functional departments
- Understanding of Marketplace offerings through AWS, GCP, and Azure (nice to have)
- Highly organized, internal customer-focused and strong attention to detail
- Ability to multitask and prioritize at times of high volume, and have schedule flexibility during End of Month and End of Quarter
- Have an understanding of quote to cash process and sales contracts; proficient in identifying risks associated in deal terms and structures
- Ability to travel for QBRs (1x per quarter)
- Must be located on the East Coast of the United States
Compensation: $85,000-$100,000 base salary plus bonus
About Us
Chainguard is the secure foundation for software development and deployment. By providing guarded open source software, built from source and updated continuously, Chainguard helps organizations eliminate threats in their software supply chains.
Founded by the industry's leading experts on open source software, security and cloud native development, Chainguard has built the largest library of open source software that is secure by default.
Chainguard’s mission is to be the safe source for open source.
We live and breathe our company values:
We are customer obsessed - We focus on delivering solutions to our customers that create value and make their lives better.
We have a bias for intentional action - We prioritize, plan, try things, and fail fast.
We don’t take ourselves too seriously (but we do serious work) - We are solving an important problem which takes focus, but we also like to enjoy the journey.
We trust each other and assume good intentions - We’re transparent with decisions to empower team members to make well informed decisions.
A few of the benefits we offer:
- Flexible & Remote-First Culture: Work remotely with team meetup opportunities, bi-annual destination summits, and a monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs.
- Our Approach to Equity: Receive stock options upon hire and promotion. Plus, you can participate in secondary offerings and have 10 years to exercise your options (yes, you read that correctly: 10 years!).
- 100% Covered Health Insurance: We cover 100% of your health, vision and dental insurance premiums for you and your dependents. Nothing comes out of your paycheck.
- ∞ Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need – to do our best work, we need to recharge and reset.
- 18 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: We offer 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents, with the option to use it all at once or throughout your child's first year.
If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. We’re building the best team in technology and are focused on hiring “Chainguardians'' with unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Chainguard is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, political views or activity, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Chainguard will process your personal data in accordance with Chainguard’s Privacy Policy.
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What We Do
Chainguard is the secure foundation for building with open source software. The company's portfolio of secure, minimal container images helps organizations embrace a new culture of software development where starting left with security, not shifting left, is the reality. Chainguard was founded by the industry's leading experts on software supply chain security, open source, software, and cloud-native development. We aren't a traditional security vendor. It's container images provide secure-by-default infrastructure that introduces zero friction to developer workflows. That's why developers love and CISOS trust Chainguard.
Its customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading technology and security companies, including Anduril, Canva, Domino Data Lab, Checkmarx, HPE, GitLab, Snowflake, and Wiz. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia, and Spark Capital.
Why Work With Us
Security is our mission, but having fun is our mantra. Since our founding, we've increased +1M memes, sung 900+ hours of Kubernetes-themed karaoke, and created 774+ whacky Slack emojis. Beyond this, Chainguard's innovation and leadership in open source and software supply chain security has been recognized by industry leaders.
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