Lead Pricing Strategist

About the role

The Pricing team defines and executes GitLab's pricing strategy, a function that's important to our success. As a Lead Pricing Strategist, you'll shape pricing and packaging across our portfolio, from the Premium and Ultimate tiers to GitLab Duo and our growing set of artificial intelligence (AI) and usage-based products, including Flex and Orbit.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leaders across Product Management, Product Marketing, and Finance to create new commercial models, define strategies for new offerings, improve pricing and packaging for existing offerings, and drive GitLab's overall monetization strategy.
• Analyze market trends, competitor pricing, and customer and usage data to make evidence-based pricing recommendations.
• Use structured problem-solving to form hypotheses, complete analysis, validate findings, and recommend actions.
• Conduct regular pricing reviews, identify opportunities, and help create and carry out plans to address them.
• Evaluate new business models and monetization approaches as GitLab's portfolio evolves, especially for AI, credit-based pricing, and usage-based products.
• Partner with product and fulfillment teams to prioritize launches and map new stock keeping units (SKUs) to the correct products and feature sets.
• Monitor pricing and packaging changes after launch and apply what you learn to ongoing strategy.
• Communicate pricing concepts and recommendations clearly, influence senior leaders, and build alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities.

Requirements

• Significant experience leading software as a service (SaaS) pricing strategy and analysis across products or a complex portfolio.
• Experience with financial analysis and modeling, with the ability to use data and business intelligence tools such as Sisense or Tableau to support recommendations.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex data into clear, practical recommendations.
• Proven experience framing ambiguous/complex problems and facilitating executive decisions amongst conflicting priorities.
• The ability to communicate credibly with different audiences and influence senior management.
• A track record of maintaining alignment across cross-functional stakeholders while managing multiple projects and competing deadlines.
• Intellectual curiosity and comfort working through ambiguity.
• Develop and test approaches to ambiguous problems in a fast-paced, iterative environment.