Overview
This role is for a Principal AI Pricing Strategist supporting the Product Organization. The strategist will collaborate directly with Product P&L owners to design, test, and scale monetization strategies for innovative pricing models, including AI-enabled capabilities across the product portfolio. The position involves managing the pricing and packaging due diligence process for assigned product lines, guiding the transition from adoption-focused approaches to sustainable, value-aligned monetization as customer use cases and technology maturity evolve.
Responsibilities
- Lead pricing strategy for assigned product lines, defining and testing new AI packaging and pricing strategies.
- Partner with Product GMs and P&L owners to develop multi-phase monetization roadmaps that evolve with use-case maturity, establishing decision gates, KPIs, and guardrails for transitioning from trial/adoption to scaled monetization.
- Design and model pricing constructs, running sensitivity analyses that incorporate AI cost drivers to protect margins.
- Define telemetry requirements and entitlement controls to enable scalable usage management and predictable economics.
- Lead concept testing, A/B pilots, and controlled rollouts; synthesize customer feedback to refine offers and price fences.
- Collaborate with Deal Desk, Finance, and Legal teams to translate pricing policies into operational workflows that increase approval velocity while maintaining governance.
- Create rate cards, SKU structures, discount guidelines, and upgrade pathways; provide training to Product Management and Go-To-Market teams on AI pricing decisions.
- Monitor price realization and margin outcomes, including attach rates, price capture, usage versus entitlement, and cost-to-serve; recommend continuous improvements to maximize value capture while maintaining customer trust.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years of experience in pricing strategy or product monetization for SaaS.
- At least 2 years of experience working on AI-enabled products.
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrated success in developing, testing, and launching license-based, usage-based, outcome/performance-based, and hybrid pricing models, with the ability to select and adapt constructs over time.
- Strong financial modeling skills, including AI model/token economics and inference cost variability.
- Experience partnering with Product GMs and P&L owners and influencing cross-functional teams (Product, Finance, Legal, Sales Operations/Deal Desk) without formal authority.
- Familiarity with SaaS Order-to-Cash (O2C), entitlement/metering, Configure Price Quote (CPQ) systems, and data/telemetry instrumentation for pricing analytics.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of translating complex pricing tradeoffs into clear, customer-centric narratives.
Compensation & Benefits
- Starting base salary range: $87,700 to $114,200, with potential variation based on qualifications, market value, and operational considerations.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Remote-flexible work environment.
- Wellness programs.
- 401(k) program with employer match.
- Flexible paid time off.
- Generous parental leave.
- Donations for Doers program.
- Pet insurance, legal, and identity protection.
- Tuition reimbursement program.
Location
Remote-flexible workforce arrangement.