Pricing Strategy Associate Manager
Talkdesk
About the role
The Pricing Strategy Associate Manager will serve as a strategic pricing partner to Product Managers across the company’s AI and Contact Center software portfolio. Reporting to the Pricing Director, this role brings deep pricing and monetization expertise to PM-led pricing and packaging proposals by helping strengthen commercial rigor.
This role acts as a dedicated thought partner responsible for pressure-testing assumptions, filling analytical gaps, and ensuring proposals are financially sound, operationally feasible, and aligned with pricing best practices.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can independently manage a complex workload of pricing proposals and flex between pricing strategy support, analytical modeling, governance coordination, implementation feasibility discussions and strategic pricing project initiatives depending on business needs. Product Managers retain ownership of proposals and domain direction; this role strengthens and challenges the work to ensure every proposal meets a high commercial standard.
Key Responsibilities:
PM Pricing Partnership
Partner with Product Managers to strengthen pricing and packaging recommendations for new and existing products through pricing expertise, analytical support, and structured challenge across:
Strategic Alignment: competitive positioning, internal product and strategy alignment, unit economics / forecasting
Pricing Model Design: meter / unit of measure selection, packaging structure, buying rules
Operational Feasibility: technical product and billing/CPQ feasibility
Identify gaps, inconsistencies, or risks in pricing proposals and help refine thinking through structured feedback — operating with a high degree of autonomy and minimal oversight from the Pricing Director
Provide targeted research and analytical support to strengthen proposal builds as needed (e.g. financial modeling, competitive benchmarking); leverage business partners where appropriate
Support PMs in navigating cross-functional operationalization requirements for pricing changes
Pricing Committee & Governance
Prepare PMs to present proposals to the Pricing Committee
Coordinate Pricing Committee activities — including scheduling, documenting decisions, and communicating approved changes across the organization
Maintain pricing documentation as the source of truth and proactively cascade changes to impacted teams and systems (e.g., SFDC/CPQ, website, sales enablement)
Analytics & Research
Support development and maintenance of pricing analytics and dashboards — including discounting analysis, pricing performance monitoring, and packaging optimization — either directly or in partnership with BI resources
Conduct ad hoc strategic pricing research and monitor market trends across the SaaS, AI, and Contact Center landscape
Serve as a resource to Sales and Deal Desk on pricing and packaging Q&A
Requirements:
5+ years of experience in pricing, strategy & ops, management consulting, FP&A,