Pricing Strategist, API
Remote • San Francisco • FullTime
Posted 2mo ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
We are looking for a Pricing Strategist to shape how we price and monetize OpenAI’s API platform. You will own the end-to-end pricing strategy across model launches, price architecture, packaging, commitments and discounts, and monetization guardrails. You will work closely with senior leaders across Product, Engineering, Data Science, GTM, and Finance to define pricing approaches, improve commercial decision-making, and bring more rigor to how we monetize our API offerings. You should be comfortable building monetization frameworks and commercial policies, analyzing tradeoffs, supporting high-impact decisions and driving decision making. You should also care deeply about the customer perspective and believe that strong pricing reflects a real understanding of customer value, needs, and friction points in order to build pricing that is clear, fair, and aligned with how customers experience our products.
Responsibilities
- Develop the end-to-end pricing strategy for our API platform, including model launch pricing, price architecture, packaging, discount logic, and monetization guardrails.
- Recommend pricing for new models, capabilities, and platform offerings, and develop innovative commercial constructs that better serve API customers.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, and GTM leaders to ensure pricing aligns with product value, roadmap, commercial motions, and overall growth plans.
- Develop clear recommendations that are grounded in customer preferences, product value, and market dynamics.
- Establish lightweight but effective pricing governance, including decision frameworks, approval processes, and performance tracking.
Requirements
- 6+ years of relevant experience in pricing, monetization, product strategy, business operations, consulting, or a related field.
- 3+ years of direct experience in pricing and monetization.
- Strong track record of developing and shipping successful pricing and monetization strategies across both self-serve and sales-led motions.
- Deep familiarity with consumption-based pricing and the monetization of API, infrastructure, developer-platform, or other usage-driven products.
- Ability to build rigorous analytical and financial models and translate technical cost, usage, and customer data into clear recommendations.
- Ability to balance customer value, product strategy, technical economics, and commercial outcomes in a thoughtful way.
- Comfortable influencing senior cross-functional stakeholders and navigating ambiguous, high-stakes decisions.
- Self-starter who can roll up their sleeves, learn technical concepts quickly, and operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment.