
Senior Director – Pricing & Commercialization
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full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Burlington • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $221,000 - $260,000 per year
Job Level
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About the role
- Own the company wide pricing and monetization strategy across products, segments, and business units (subscription, usage, perpetual, hybrid, open source)
- Define pricing principles, guardrails, and value based frameworks that balance growth, competitiveness, and long term value creation
- Evaluate and optimize portfolio level pricing decisions, ensuring coherence and disciplined execution
- Drive standardization of renewal pricing, deal structures, bundling, and packaging to increase ARR predictability and customer retention
- Establish a scalable, repeatable commercialization framework for new product launches and pricing changes
- Translate product strategy into monetization models, pricing rules, and deal execution guidance
- Partner with Product, Product Marketing, and BU leadership to ensure roadmap decisions align with monetization outcomes
- Lead commercialization workstreams for M&A, including pricing diligence, harmonization, and integration
- Serve as the strategic pricing partner to Sales and field leadership
- Provide executive level support on complex, high impact, or non standard deals
- Oversee discount governance, exception management, and policies that protect long term pricing integrity
- Strengthen cross functional alignment across Product, Finance, Sales, Legal, and Operations
- Define requirements and roadmap for pricing systems, SKU architecture, CPQ logic, renewal workflows, and quote to cash scalability
- Ensure pricing policies and logic are embedded into systems and automation—not reliant on manual processes
- Lead the operating cadence for pricing reviews, portfolio simplification, and ongoing optimization
- Reduce field escalations and improve speed to market through streamlined workflows and clear governance
- Build and lead a high performing pricing and commercialization organization spanning pricing strategy, analytics, systems, and program management
- Act as the executive level interface for pricing across business units and corporate functions
- Drive enterprise alignment through a hub and spoke model balancing central standards with market flexibility
- Influence C suite and senior leadership on pricing strategy, monetization trends, and growth levers
Requirements
- 12–15+ years of experience in SaaS pricing, monetization, revenue strategy, or commercial operations
- Proven success leading cross functional pricing or commercialization initiatives in complex, multi product environments
- Strong financial and analytical acumen (ARR, margin, NRR, deal economics, forecasting)
- Experience with Salesforce, CPQ, SKU architecture, renewal workflows, and monetization systems
- Executive presence with the ability to influence senior leaders and unify stakeholders
- Experience in a public company environment or exposure to investor related pricing impact (beneficial)
- Background in pricing transformation, global governance, or pricing roles supporting M&A integration (beneficial)
- Demonstrated success improving pricing discipline, reducing deal escalations, or scaling monetization models (beneficial)
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life & disability, and financial benefits (including 401(k) retirement savings plan)
- Tuition Reimbursement program
- Additional voluntary benefits including crucial illness/hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, auto & home insurance, legal, and pet insurance
- Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback
- Flexible paid vacation time, paid day off for your birthday, and company holidays
- A variety of leave plans, including Parental Leave
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and an employee well-being program focusing on physical, mental, and financial health
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Hard Skills & Tools
SaaS pricingmonetization strategyrevenue strategycommercial operationsfinancial acumenanalytical acumenpricing transformationpricing disciplinedeal economicsforecasting
Soft Skills
executive presenceinfluencestakeholder unificationleadershipcross functional collaborationstrategic thinkingcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem solvingnegotiation