Director, Pricing Strategy & Deal Intelligence (Remote)

Who is Trace3 ? Trace3 is a leading Transformative IT Authority, providing unique technology solutions and consulting services to our clients. Equipped with elite engineering and dynamic innovation, we empower IT executives and their organizations to achieve competitive advantage through a process of Integrate, Automate, Innovate. Our culture at Trace3 embodies the spirit of a startup with the advantage of a scalable business. Employees can grow their career and have fun while doing it! Trace3 is headquartered in Irvine, California. We employ more than 1,200 people all over the United States. Our major field office locations include Denver, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Lexington, Los Angeles, Louisville, Texas, San Francisco.   Ready to discover the possibilities that live in technology? Come Join Us! Street-Smart   -  Thriving in Dynamic Times We are flexible and resilient in a fast-changing environment. We continuously innovate and drive constructive change while keeping a focus on the “big picture.” We exercise sound business judgment in making high-quality decisions in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are highly creative and can dig deep within ourselves to find positive solutions to different problems. Juice -  The “Stuff” it takes to be a Needle Mover We get things done and drive results. We lead without a title, empowering others through a can-do attitude. We look forward to the goal, mentally mapping out every checkpoint on the pathway to success, and visualizing what the final destination looks and feels like. Teamwork -  Humble, Hungry and Smart We are humble individuals who understand how our job impacts the company's mission. We treat others with respect, admit mistakes, give credit where it’s due and demonstrate transparency. We “bring the weather” by exhibiting positive leadership and solution-focused thinking. We hug people in their trials, struggles, and failures – not just their success. We appreciate the individuality of the people around us. ABOUT THE ROLE: Trace3 is building a centralized Revenue Operations function from the ground up, and the Director of Pricing and Deal Intelligence leads the pillar responsible for one of the most direct levers in the business: deal-level margin discipline. The Director will own the pricing strategy, the deal guidance framework, the analytical pricing tool that embeds guidance directly into seller workflows, and the deal intelligence team that supports frontline deal reviews. This is a player-coach role. You will lead a team of analysts and be personally in the work: reviewing deals, interpreting pricing analytics, adjusting the guidance framework based on what the data shows, and driving pricing attainment with sales leadership every week.  WHAT YOU'LL DO: Pricing Strategy and Margin Ownership 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 Pricing Guidance Tool and Algorithm Ownership 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 Deal Intelligence and Deal Review Operations 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 Technical Pricing Analytics 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 Team Build and Operating Standard 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 ove