Pricing Strategy, Manager/senior Manager

Salesforce Salesforce · Enterprise · San Francisco, CA +2

Salesforce is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager for their Pricing Strategy team to develop and optimize pricing and packaging strategies for Salesforce products. This role involves data-driven analysis, cross-functional collaboration with Product Management, Marketing, and Sales, and influencing executive leadership to drive monetization and growth. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, strategic, and communication skills, with experience in SaaS pricing and strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop and optimize long term pricing and packaging strategies for Salesforce working across a number of teams including Product Management, Product Marketing, Go To Market, Sales and Deal Desk
  2. Make informed data-driven recommendations using structured problem solving frameworks (i.e. create hypotheses, analyze data, validate hypotheses, make recommendation)
  3. Assist product operations in prioritizing launches and creating SKUs that map to the correct product feature set
  4. Proactively identify opportunities to enhance our existing portfolio combining market, competitive, customer and stakeholder research
  5. Clearly communicate pricing concepts and recommendations to Exec level leadership; work with cross-functional teams to operationalize recommendations

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of relevant working experience
  • Superior analytical, strategic, communication, and organizational skills
  • High level of attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple projects at once
  • Able to identify and develop solutions to complex problems from a strategic and operational perspective that may cross departments
  • Capable of communicating concepts clearly and credibly to multiple audiences
  • Ability to influence various constituents, including senior management
  • Deep interest in analyzing quantitative and qualitative data
  • Intellectually curious, creative strategic business thinker
  • Can influence and set direction with Exec leadership
  • Can handle multiple projects at once, prioritizing workloads to meet competing deadlines and complex stakeholders dynamics
  • Thrives in high-growth, performance focused environments with frequent change
  • Design & lead qualitative and quantitative sales and customer research to test pricing & packaging strategy hypotheses
  • Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint (or equivalent)
  • Bachelor’s degree

Nice to have

  • 2+ years of SaaS Pricing Strategy experience
  • 2+ years of software technology company experience
  • Prior management consulting, investment banking, corporate strategy, pricing/product strategy or product management experience
  • MBA preferred
  • Travel up to 10% possible

What the JD emphasized

  • Superior analytical, strategic, communication, and organizational skills are critical
  • Deep interest in analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and the ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision-making using both quantitative and qualitative research
  • Design & lead qualitative and quantitative sales and customer research to test pricing & packaging strategy hypotheses