Director, Product Pricing and Monetisation
Leads company-wide pricing, packaging, monetization, and customer-insights strategy, connecting research, behavioral data, financial analysis, and experimentation to commercial decisions. Requires 12+ years across SaaS pricing, monetization, product or growth strategy, customer insights, and management.
About the job
Responsibilities
Pricing and packaging strategy
- Develop a company-wide pricing and packaging strategy across subscription plans, bundles, add-ons, usage-based capabilities, services, and new product launches.
- Evaluate pricing architecture, value metrics, plan differentiation, feature entitlements, upgrade paths, bundling, and add-on attachment.
- Build business cases covering acquisition, conversion, revenue per customer, expansion, retention, gross margin, and lifetime value.
- Establish principles for discounts, promotions, trials, grandfathering, migrations, and price increases.
- Partner with Finance and Data to model revenue impact, customer impact, adoption scenarios, and risks.
- Create a prioritized monetization roadmap.
Customer research and insights
- Build continuous research programs across prospects, trial users, customers, expanded customers, churned customers, agency owners, affiliates, and agency sub-accounts.
- Establish segmentation based on needs, behaviors, maturity, business models, use cases, value realization, and willingness to pay.
- Lead interviews, surveys, concept testing, win/loss analysis, churn research, behavioral analysis, and willingness-to-pay studies.
- Create a centralized customer-insights repository and share insights regularly with cross-functional teams and executive leadership.
- Translate research into product strategy, roadmap, positioning, onboarding, education, and go-to-market recommendations.
Experimentation and implementation
- Design pricing, packaging, positioning, and offer experiments with hypotheses, target segments, success metrics, and decision criteria.
- Partner with Product, Growth, Engineering, Billing, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to implement approved changes.
- Develop rollout strategies for existing and new customers, channel partners, affiliates, billing, communications, and support.
- Establish guardrails protecting customer trust, conversion, adoption, and retention.
- Measure trial-to-paid conversion, plan mix, average revenue per customer, add-on attachment, expansion, downgrades, churn, net revenue retention, gross margin, and customer lifetime value.
Market and competitive intelligence
- Track pricing, packaging, positioning, and monetization trends across SaaS, agency technology, CRM, marketing automation, communications, AI, and adjacent software.
- Identify changes in customer expectations, competitive offers, business models, and value metrics.
- Use market intelligence alongside customer value, product strategy, economics, and long-term differentiation.
Organizational leadership
- Establish cross-functional pricing and monetization operating cadences, decision rights, approval processes, and measurement standards.
- Present commercially grounded recommendations to senior leaders and build alignment across functions.
- Initially operate as a hands-on leader and help build a team across pricing, monetization analytics, and customer insights.
- Raise organizational capability in customer research, pricing strategy, experimentation, and value-based decision-making.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience across SaaS pricing, monetization, product strategy, customer insights, growth strategy, and management.
- Experience leading cross-functional commercial strategy and translating research, behavioral data, market intelligence, financial analysis, and experimentation into business decisions.
- Experience with pricing and packaging, customer segmentation, willingness-to-pay research, monetization experiments, and SaaS metrics.
- Strong executive communication, analytical, strategic, and organizational leadership skills.
Skills
Saas Pricing, Monetization, Product Strategy, Customer Research, Customer Segmentation, Pricing Strategy, Packaging Strategy, Market Intelligence, Financial Analysis, Experimentation, Revenue Modeling, SaaS Metrics, Willingness-To-Pay, Executive Communication, Cross-Functional Leadership
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