Pricing Strategist Go to Market Pricing

About the team

The Pricing & Monetization team is responsible for how OpenAI products create and capture value. We partner closely with GTM Finance and Product to design pricing models packaging and commercial strategies that support adoption growth and long-term scaling of the business.

To thrive in this team you need to be a proactive problem-solver who excels at bringing structure to ambiguous challenges. Our work demands strategic thinking cross-functional collaboration and precision in execution. Team members succeed when they are analytical detail-oriented skilled at balancing multiple priorities and passionate about driving high-stakes projects forward to deliver meaningful results.

About the role

We are looking for a Pricing Strategist to shape the pricing frameworks commercial policies and decision principles that govern our most consequential commercial decisions.

This role works closely with senior leaders across GTM and Finance to define our overall pricing strategy for our sales managed segment as well as the key pricing guardrails and commercial pricing framework we enable to help our sellers and customers move fast and land mutually beneficial commercial agreements at scale.

The ideal candidate is comfortable developing durable monetization frameworks and commercial policies analyzing tradeoffs and supporting high-impact decisions. They bring structure to ambiguity communicate tradeoffs crisply and know when an exception reveals a one-off need versus a broader opportunity to improve our commercial model. This role will report to the Head of Go-to-Market Pricing.

In this role you will

• Develop frameworks and strategies that guide commercial pricing decisions.

• Design commercial constructsincluding commitments incentives and risk-sharing approachesthat address customer needs while supporting healthy unit economics and long-term growth.

• Build and evolve discounting frameworks guardrails and approval principles that improve pricing execution consistency and speed across segments and deal types.

• Partner closely with Sales GTM Strategy Finance Legal and Product to develop executable proposals and resolve complex commercial questions.

You might thrive in this role if you

• Have 6 years of experience in a strategy role (e.g. consulting bizops etc.).

• 3 years of expertise in pricing and monetization. Experience with designing discounting frameworks and commercial constructs is a plus.

• Have deep experience with enterprise software or technology commercial models; familiarity with usage- or consumption-based pricing is especially valuable.

• Can design practical commercial constructs and discounting frameworksnot only analyze themand understand how policy choices show up in frontline execution.

• Are an excellent quantitative problem-solver who can build decision-useful models pressure-test assumptions and distinguish precision from false certainty.

• Exercise strong commercial judgment across customer value competitive dynamics economics and precedent risk.

• Can influence senior stakeholders and hold a clear point of view while remaining collaborative curious and open to new evidence.

• Communicate complex pricing choices in simple decision-oriented language for both executive and customer-facing audiences.

• Operate well in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information balancing speed rigor and sound escalation judgment.

• Care about building pricing approaches that are clear fair and aligned with how customers experience value.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core and to achieve our mission we must encompass and value the many different perspectives voices and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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