Deal Operations Manager - Canada, Europe

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<p><strong>WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU</strong></p>
<p>You will be joining a growing company where you can contribute to many “firsts”. Plus these benefits:</p>
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<li>Monthly remote work stipend (home internet costs, electricity). Home office equipment package right at the start (laptop, keyboard, monitor…)</li>
<li>Home office equipment upgrade (furniture, ear plugs …) or membership to a local co-working space after your onboarding</li>
<li>Sick leave benefit, parental leave and 25 days of annual leave plus your local national holidays</li>
<li>Personal development fund for courses, books, conferences, and material</li>
<li>The annual international team-building trip, quarterly and monthly online get-togethers</li>
<li>As a fully remote company, with work-life balance at its core, you’ll enjoy flexible schedules</li>
<li>An international team that loves to have fun at work and works hard together to accomplish shared goals</li>
</ul></div><h3><strong>JOB SUMMARY</strong></h3>
<p>Storyblok is hiring a <strong>Deal Operations Manager</strong> to build the operating workflow for how deals are structured, reviewed, approved, executed, and handed off across quote-to-cash. The role supports Sales on deal construction and deal design strategy, coordinates Legal execution, partners with Finance on revenue recognition readiness, and turns pricing, packaging, and NPI decisions into field-ready operating process. Sitting within Revenue Operations, this role works across Sales, Sales Leadership, Finance, Legal, Deal Strategy, Systems, Order Management, Security, Customer Success, and Product / Packaging to make approval-ready deals faster and downstream defects lower.</p>
<h3><strong>&nbsp;ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS</strong></h3>
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<li><strong> Deal operations workflow and process</strong></li>
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<li>Build the global deal operations workflow for intake, routing, approval readiness, SLAs, escalation paths, and exception handling.</li>
<li>Own approval readiness in DealHub CPQ, including required fields, quote quality checks, approval context, discount rationale, and downstream handoff inputs.</li>
<li>Maintain practical process documentation, templates, and decision rules so Sales can move standard deals through documented paths.</li>
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<li><strong> Deal construction and design strategy support</strong></li>
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<li>Support Sales and Sales Leadership on deal construction across new business, renewal, expansion, multi-year, ramped, multi-product, and non-standard commercial requests.</li>
<li>Translate deal strategy into approval-ready constructs with clear value exchange, risk flags, concession logic, billing terms, contract timing, and implementation assumptions.</li>
<li>Partner with Deal Strategy, Customer Success, Product / Packaging, and Finance when commercial design affects retention, expansion, product adoption, or reporting.</li>
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<li><strong> Legal execution and Finance revenue recognition readiness</strong></li>
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<li>Engage Legal early on non-standard terms, contract language, execution path, risk ownership, and customer-requested changes.</li>
<li>Coordinate with Finance on revenue recognition inputs, billing terms, payment terms, start dates, product lines, order form clarity, and required approval evidence.</li>
<li>Maintain pre-signature checks for deals with rev rec, billing, custom terms, or product readiness risk.</li>
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<li><strong> Pricing, packaging, NPI, and DealHub CPQ rollout</strong></li>
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<li>Participate in pricing and packaging execution and strategy support so decisions can be turned into field process, DealHub CPQ logic, approval paths, and reporting readiness.</li>
<li>Support NPI rollout by defining deal rules, quote requirements, launch constraints, fallback paths, and field guidance for early transactions.</li>
<li>Track whether pricing, packaging, or NPI changes create quote exceptions, approval confusion, billing defects, or customer handoff issues.</li>
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<li><strong> Quote-to-cash quality, cadence, and continuous improvement</strong></li>
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<li>Own the operating handoff from approved quote to order, billing, commissions, reporting, and customer lifecycle records.</li>
<li>Run the deal operations cadence with KPI packs, defect logs, root-cause reviews, action owners, and process improvements.</li>
<li>Identify automation and AI use cases tied to intake, routing, approval summaries, quote checks, documentation, and measurable cycle-time reduction.</li>
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<h3><strong>EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE</strong></h3>
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<li>Bache