Pricing Strategist

OpenAI OpenAI · AI Frontier · San Francisco, CA · Strategic Finance

Develops pricing strategy, packaging, price architecture, discount logic, and monetization guardrails for a subset of OpenAI's products. Partners with Product, GTM, and Finance leaders to ensure pricing aligns with product value, roadmap, commercial motions, and growth plans. Establishes pricing governance, decision frameworks, approval processes, and performance tracking.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop the pricing strategy for a subset of our products, including packaging, price architecture, discount logic, and monetization guardrails
  2. Develop innovative commercial constructs to better serve our customers
  3. Partner with Product, GTM and Finance leaders to ensure pricing aligns with product value, roadmap, commercial motions and overall growth plans
  4. Develop clear recommendations that are grounded in customer preferences, product value and market dynamics
  5. Establish lightweight but effective pricing governance, including decision frameworks, approval processes, and performance tracking

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of prior experience in a strategy role (e.g., consulting, bizops, etc.)
  • 3+ years of expertise in pricing and monetization
  • strong track record of developing successful monetization strategy, across self-serve and ‘sold’ sales motion
  • deeply familiar with various monetization models incl. seat-based subscriptions and consumptive pricing models
  • comfortable influencing senior cross-functional stakeholders and navigating ambiguous decisions
  • self-starter that can roll up their sleeves and is comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high ambiguity environment
  • Can build and manage a team of highly talented individuals

What the JD emphasized

  • strong track record of developing successful monetization strategy
  • deeply familiar with various monetization models incl. seat-based subscriptions and consumptive pricing models
  • comfortable influencing senior cross-functional stakeholders and navigating ambiguous decisions