OpenAI

Pricing Strategist, API

OpenAI$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of relevant experience in pricing, monetization, product strategy, business operations, consulting, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of direct pricing and monetization experience.
  • Proven success in developing and implementing pricing strategies for self-serve and sales-led environments.
  • Familiarity with consumption-based pricing for APIs and other usage-driven products.
  • Ability to create detailed analytical and financial models from data.
  • Experience balancing customer value with technical and commercial factors.
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional leaders in ambiguous decision-making scenarios.

Responsibilities

  • Develop the comprehensive pricing strategy for the API platform, covering model launches and pricing architecture.
  • Recommend pricing for new products and create unique commercial constructs for API customers.
  • Collaborate with leaders in Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, and GTM to align pricing with product value and market strategies.
  • Provide recommendations based on customer preferences and market trends.
  • Establish efficient pricing governance frameworks including approval processes and performance monitoring.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence the monetization strategy of cutting-edge technologies.
  • Work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment with a focus on innovation.
  • Collaboration with senior leaders across multiple departments.
  • Possibility to shape customer experience through clear and fair pricing strategies.
Full Job Description
About the Role

We are looking for a Pricing Strategist to shape how we price and monetize OpenAI's API platform. You'll own the end-to-end pricing strategy across model launches, price architecture, packaging, commitments and discounts, and monetization guardrails. You'll 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. This role will report to the Head of Product Pricing for API & Platform.

What you'll do
  • 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.

You might thrive in this role if you
  • Have 6+ years of relevant experience in pricing, monetization, product strategy, business operations, consulting, or a related field.
  • Have 3+ years of direct experience in pricing and monetization.
  • Have a strong track record of developing and shipping successful pricing and monetization strategies across both self-serve and sales-led motions.
  • Are deeply familiar with consumption-based pricing and the monetization of API, infrastructure, developer-platform, or other usage-driven products.
  • Can build rigorous analytical and financial models and translate technical cost, usage, and customer data into clear recommendations.
  • Can balance customer value, product strategy, technical economics, and commercial outcomes in a thoughtful way.
  • Are comfortable influencing senior cross-functional stakeholders and navigating ambiguous, high-stakes decisions.
  • Are a self-starter who can roll up their sleeves, learn technical concepts quickly, and operate effectively in a fast-paced, high-ambiguity environment.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
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100 employees
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Founded
2015

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