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Principal, Pricing Strategy and Optimization
Location
California + 6 moreAll locations: California | Connecticut | New Jersey | New York | Maryland | Massachusetts | Washington
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$131.7K - $210.3K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal, Pricing Strategy and Optimization
Zillow
• Lead pricing strategy and optimization across New Construction products, customer segments, and go-to-market motions, including pricing architecture, packaging, discounting, and monetization levers. • Develop data-driven pricing recommendations using customer value, ROI analysis, competitive analysis, market dynamics, portfolio performance, and business tradeoffs. • Identify, size, and prioritize pricing opportunities that improve revenue growth, product adoption, partner ROI, long-term business health, and minimize cannibalization. • Build business cases and scenario analyses to inform pricing decisions, annual planning, and strategic investment choices in partnership with Finance and business leadership. • Design and evaluate pricing tests, pilots, and promotions by defining success metrics, measuring impact, and translating results into clear recommendations. • Monitor customer contracts and pricing to ensure rates remain appropriate and aligned with business objectives. • Partner cross-functionally to operationalize pricing decisions through systems, workflows, dashboards, sales materials, and field execution. • Help define pricing governance, simplify pricing and packaging where appropriate, synthesize analysis for senior stakeholders, and leverage AI tools to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in pricing strategy, monetization, strategy and operations, revenue optimization, consulting, finance, or a related field; experience in B2B, marketplaces, SaaS, media, advertising, or proptech is preferred.
- Deep expertise in pricing, packaging, monetization, or commercial strategy, with a track record of solving ambiguous, high-impact business problems.
- Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including experience building business cases, designing experiments, interpreting complex data, and making actionable recommendations.
- Proven ability to independently drive decisions and operate as a subject matter expert in ambiguous environments.
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners across Product, Sales, Finance, Operations, and Analytics without direct authority.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex ideas and clearly present recommendations, tradeoffs, and risks.
- Strong technical skills, including AI tools, advanced Excel or Google Sheets, and SQL; experience with BI tools and experimentation or performance measurement frameworks is preferred.
- Experience translating strategy into operational execution in partnership with systems, product, or go-to-market teams to implement pricing changes at scale.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution and a bias toward simple, scalable solutions.
Benefits
- equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance and location
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