Product design question

You are a PM of a B2B product. Design a pricing tool that is going to be used by sales managers.

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What this question tests

B2B product design for an internal sales tool, requiring the candidate to reason about workflow efficiency and pricing accuracy.

Clarify the user: sales managers configuring deal pricing, distinct from the end customer facing pricing page.
Identify the core job: quickly generating an accurate, approved price quote for a complex, configurable product.
Identify the pain point: manual pricing calculations are slow and prone to costly errors on large deals.
Prioritize accuracy and speed of quote generation, since both directly affect deal velocity and revenue risk.
Propose a guided configurator with built in discount approval thresholds and automatic margin calculation.
Define success with quote turnaround time and reduction in pricing errors requiring rework.

Distinguishes the internal sales manager user from an end customer, correctly scoping this as a B2B internal tool.
Names a concrete, high stakes pain point, pricing errors on large deals, relevant to enterprise sales.
Proposes a specific mechanism, built in discount approval thresholds, that reflects real enterprise sales workflows.
Sets business relevant metrics, quote turnaround time and error reduction, tied directly to sales velocity and revenue risk.

Designs this like a consumer facing pricing page instead of an internal workflow tool.
Ignores approval workflows and discount governance, which are central to enterprise sales pricing.

How would you integrate this with an existing CRM like Salesforce?
How would you handle a sales manager wanting to override the approval threshold?
How would you measure whether the tool actually reduced deal closing time?