Principal Data Scientist, Pricing Strategy

Okta Okta · Enterprise · United States · Business Planning-550

This Principal Data Scientist role focuses on pricing strategy for Okta's AI offerings. The role involves partnering with Product, Finance, and GTM teams to inform pricing and packaging decisions, build models to forecast impact, design and evaluate pilots, and generate insights from complex datasets. The goal is to drive growth and value capture through data-driven recommendations and scalable execution plans.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with Product, GTM, and Finance leadership to inform portfolio-level pricing, packaging, and discount strategy with data-driven recommendations
  2. Build and operationalize models and analytical frameworks to forecast pricing impact, customer behavior, and revenue outcomes across segments and geographies
  3. Design and evaluate pilots and test-and-learn programs for new pricing initiatives, defining success criteria and measurement plans
  4. Analyze large, complex datasets to uncover drivers of purchasing, discounting, retention, and monetization performance
  5. Establish the right KPIs and build dashboards to monitor monetization strategy effectiveness and the ROI of pricing initiatives in real time

Skills

Required

  • SQL
  • Python
  • statistical rigor
  • structured analytics
  • data visualization
  • executive communication

Nice to have

  • pricing
  • packaging
  • monetization
  • growth strategy
  • forecasting
  • optimization
  • causal measurement
  • Sales/GTM partnership

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience in data science, analytics, pricing, strategy consulting, or a related quantitative field (B2B SaaS preferred)
  • Proven ability to apply statistical rigor and structured analytics to ambiguous business problems and deliver measurable impact
  • Experience designing measurement approaches for business initiatives (e.g., pilots, rollouts, test-and-learn), and communicating results with clarity
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional senior stakeholders and lead through ambiguity with strong collaboration and ownership