Associate Pricing Strategy Manager

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At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together. This role can be based in our San Francisco, Sunnyvale, or New York City office.

The LinkedIn Monetization Strategy team is looking for an Associate Monetization Strategy Manager to help accelerate growth and improve go-to-market strategy for our Talent Solutions Business (~$5B+ in Revenue). This individual will work closely with leaders in our marketing, sales, finance, and product organizations to help craft new business models, define monetization strategies for new offerings, optimize packaging & pricing for existing offers, and develop global processes to ensure successful pricing execution.​

If you’re excited by driving growth through global, cross-business line, cross-channel and cross-product initiatives and want to be part of a company that is redefining how professionals succeed, we would love to talk to you. ​

LinkedIn embraces diversity, inclusion and belonging as a core tenet of our culture across the company globally. Diversity in all forms helps us closer towards realizing LinkedIn’s vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. 

Responsibilities: 

• Serve as Talent Solutions monetization strategy lead for a set of products and sales channels/segments where you will lead 1-2 monetization strategy initiatives from design through implementation.​
• Analyze and track performance of commercial model initiatives and provide insights and recommendations to improve programs, influence strategy, prioritization and processes. ​
• Partner with Sales Leadership, Product Management, Product Marketing and BizOps to determine:​
  • How the next generation of Talent Solution products will be brought to market and monetized ​
  • How we can evolve the current product and offer portfolio pricing and packaging to accelerate growth.​
• Partner with Product Marketing, Sales Ops and Systems to develop Go-To-Market and implementation plans to support global rollout of new commercial offers.​
• Leverage hypothesis-driven analyses to evaluate pricing and packaging opportunities ​
• Build analytical models to inform, size and influence pricing strategy  and to help support sub-workstreams of pricing and packaging strategy initiatives​
• Design and execute qualitative and quantitative customer research to transform insights into recommendations and inform pricing and packaging decisions.​
• Measure and track monetization performance to enable continuous improvements to our pricing and packaging. ​
• Develop process foundations to improve price governance, execution, escalation processes, market validation, customer outcomes & decision making​

Basic Qualifications: 

• 1+ year of experience in Pricing, Business Analytics, Business Operations, Sales Operations, Finance, or Go-To-Market Strategy or similar experience in analytical role. 
• 1+ year of experience building financial models in Excel
• BA/BS degree in economics, management science, business, applied math, statistics, finance, analytics or related field.
• Experience using data and insights to influence & drive decision making  

 Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience running and building SQL analyses 
• Experience building business models or broader Go-to-Market strategies, optimizing packaging & pricing for B2B internet / SaaS / Software businesses​
• Demonstrated success and passion for collecting and analyzing customer insight to support strategic Go-To-Market, pricing and/or packaging decisions. ​
• Demonstrated analytical and quantitative skills; ability to break down and solve problems through quantitative thinking and analysis​
• Experience with market research and research methods in pricing (e.g. Van Westendorp, Gabor Granger, Conjoint etc.). ​
• Experience engaging and collaborating with cross-functional partners.​
• Ability to structure and communicate complex information in a simplified manner both written and verbally.​
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, “get it done” entrepreneurial environment.
• Comfortable with developing creative solutions under ambiguity and uncertainty.​
• Strategic and creative problem-solver who loves to tackle complex challenges in a collaborative team environment. ​
• Intellectually curious and adaptable to different environments and team settings.

Suggested Skills:

• Excel
• SQL
• Financial analysis and modelling
• Communication skills​
• Analytical Skills​

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.   

The pay range for this role is $89,000-$132,000. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may be different in other locations due to differences in the cost of labor.   

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For more information, visit https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.

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