Gainsight

Senior Director, Pricing & Packaging

Gainsight  •  $215k - $230k/yr  •  California (Remote)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

We’re building the AI-driven future of customer success, from retention to growth!

Gainsight is the AI-powered retention engine behind the world’s most customer-centric companies. The Gainsight CustomerOS platform orchestrates the customer journey from onboarding to outcomes to advocacy. More than 2,000 companies trust Gainsight’s applications and AI agents to drive learning, adoption, community connection, and success for their customers. To explore how our suite of solutions is shaping the future of customer success, check out the link

About This Role:

We’re looking for a full-time Senior Director, Pricing and Packaging to join our Sales teamreporting to the EVP, GTM Strategy & Operations This role is a remote role based in The United States.

In this role, you’ll play a key role in driving Gainsight’s monetization strategy and long-term revenue growth by leading the evolution of pricing and packaging across its product portfolio, including the transition to usage- and value-based models. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a highly strategic, data-driven SaaS environment and enjoys working cross-functionally with teams like Product, Sales, Finance, Marketing, and Customer Success. The ideal candidate brings strong skills in pricing strategy, financial modeling, and executive stakeholder communication.

What You'll Do:

  • Own the end-to-end pricing and packaging strategy across Gainsight’s product suite by conducting analysis, modeling options, and making recommendations that align customer value, product adoption and market dynamics

  • Lead the transition from seat-based pricing toward usage-based or hybrid monetization models where appropriate

  • Develop long-term monetization strategies that support Gainsight’s product roadmap and AI-driven platform evolution

  • Present monetization performance and key pricing decisions to the board and Executive Leadership Team as needed

  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Sales, RevOps and Finance to ensure monetization strategies are aligned with customer needs and company goals

  • Partner with and oversee deliverables from external pricing consultancies as needed

  • Lead pricing and packaging design for new products and launches in partnership with the product GMs

  • Design and evolve value metrics, tiering and packaging strategy, bundling, cross-sell and upsell motions and a cross-functional governance process

  • Conduct competitive research and market analysis to inform pricing strategy and GTM decisions, adapt pricing strategy to new agentic and usage-based models

  • Build and maintain financial models to forecast the impact of pricing and packaging changes, partnering with Finance to support business case development

  • Track and report on monetization KPIs, identifying areas of friction, opportunity, or optimization across pricing, adoption, and retention

  • Partner with RevOps on our CPQ transformation

  • Support acquisition integration from a pricing/packaging perspective by assessing commercial models and contributing to launch plans

This is not a complete list of responsibilities, and the scope of the role may evolve with the needs of the team and business. This role will require occasional travel for team meetings, training, or company events.

What We're Looking For:

  • 10+ years of experience in pricing strategy, business operations, or GTM strategy, ideally in B2B SaaS or technology

  • Strong analytical and financial modeling skills, comfortable in Excel/Sheets, and with BI tools (e.g., Sigma)

  • Experience conducting competitive and market research with the ability to turn insights into clear recommendations

  • Ability to communicate clearly and influence stakeholders across teams, from Product to Sales to Finance

  • Familiarity with SaaS business models, usage and outcome based pricing and product-led or AI-driven GTM strategies

  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to translate data insights into actionable pricing strategies

  • Strong executive communication and storytelling

Nice-to-have skills or experience:

  • Experience working in a PE-backed company or high-growth SaaS environment

  • Prior experience in pricing consulting or strategic pricing advisory strongly preferred (e.g., Simon-Kucher, Teneo, BCG, etc.)

  • Experience leading pricing transformations at growth-stage or enterprise SaaS companies

  • Pricing experience with leading product launches, packaging changes, or monetization experimentation

  • Salesforce CPQ experience

Why You’ll Love It Here:

Gainsight is a place where innovation is shaped through collaboration, curiosity, and a shared focus on solving real-world problems. With a growing suite of products across customer success, product experience, community, education, and AI-powered relationship intelligence, we continue to evolve with the needs of our customers. When people with diverse strengths, a strong sense of community, and true passion for our mission come together, they drive greater impact and create lasting value. What underpins it all is a culture that offers the stability, trust, and support that people need - not just to do the job, but to show up as themselves and feel connected to the work they do. Gainsters love working here for several reasons. Here are a few:

Our Compensation and Benefits:At Gainsight, we believe great work happens when teammates feel fully supported.

  • The starting base salary range for this role is $215,000 – $230,000 USD annually This role is also eligible for commission based on performance and participation in Gainsight’s equity program. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as skills, experience, and location.

  • We offer a comprehensive benefits package including fully covered medical premiums (employee-only), flexible PTO, 401(k) plan, dental and vision coverage, and remote work options. Additional benefits include a $10,000 lifetime fertility stipend and access to coworking spaces around the globe. You'll also enjoy dedicated Recharge Holidays - one long weekend each quarter to relax and reset.

Our Core ValuesWe are guided by our values and our mission to be living proof you can win in business while beingHuman-First Learn morehere

Our Growth OpportunitiesFrom mentoring to career development opportunities, we’re passionate about helping our teammates learn, grow, and thrive.

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If this sounds like the right role for you, we’d love to hear from you.

Additional Information:

We’re committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and transparent hiring process. As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming experience for all candidates.

If you require accommodations or have questions about how your personal data will be used during the hiring process, please let the recruiting team know.

If you are based in San Francisco, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Gainsight

About Gainsight

At Gainsight, our mission is to be living proof you can win in business while being human first.

Gainsight, the world’s leading Customer Success platform, helps businesses drive efficient growth by unifying the post-sales customer journey. Our innovative suite of solutions—including customer success, customer education, product experience, community management, and conversational AI insights—are trusted by companies of all sizes and industries, including nearly 200 publicly traded organizations.

With Gainsight, businesses can leverage AI-driven insights from real-time customer interactions to enhance engagement, improve retention, and drive expansion. Our platform makes it easier for customer success, product, and community teams to scale efficiently and gain a holistic view of their customers, driving product adoption and building thriving customer communities.

Gainsight joined the Vista Equity Partners portfolio in 2020. In 2021, we won their Excellence in Engineering award in recognition for our product and engineering advancements.

A remote-friendly company, we have offices in the US, UK, Netherlands, Israel, and India. Gainsight received the top spot in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work for 2023. It has also been named as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world by Forbes, one of the fastest-growing private companies in America by Inc. Magazine, and one of 20 Great Workplaces in Tech by Fortune Magazine.

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
Unknown
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