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Senior Director – Pricing & Commercialization

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full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: BurlingtonMassachusettsUnited States

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Salary

💰 $221,000 - $260,000 per year

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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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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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