Y Combinator Deal Pricing Strategist
Summary
Designs and implements pricing strategies for Stripe’s payment solutions, collaborating with sales teams to optimize deal profitability and align with financial goals using financial modeling and data analysis.
Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe, LLC. is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.
What you’ll do
Responsibilities
Serve as a key financial and strategic thought partner to specific AMER go-to-market sales teams and their leadership in both pricing deals at scale and pricing strategic deals. Define and implement our pricing and margin guidance and identify levers for financial uplift. Develop and refine new frameworks to evaluate a deal’s attractiveness to Stripe, ensuring alignment between these frameworks, the company’s long-range plan and mutually agreeable outcomes with cross-functional business partners. Maintain up-to-date pricing benchmarks and contribute to team analytical design and production efforts, using this data to enhance our pricing philosophy.
Who you are
Minimum requirements
- Must have a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field, plus three (3) years of experience in finance or deal pricing, investment banking, or management consulting.
- Must have three (3) years of experience with/in:
- Building collaborative working relationships with business partners, including incorporating financial model recommendations into findings, developing obstacle alternatives aligned with team goals as part of objection handling, and translating prior obstacles into actionable process and design improvements;
- Financial modeling using a spreadsheet-based tool;
- Payments or technology sector;
- Presenting findings and recommendations to senior leadership, including sales of go-to-market business partners;
- Data analysis of historical and projected financial data to identify trends or anomalies; and
- End-to-end process improvements as part of the deal-making process, including approvals, prioritization, formatting review, and cross-functional partner collaboration.
Salary: $144,000 - $216,000/yr.
This salary range represents the base salary range for the role and any sales commissions/sales bonuses targets, if applicable, would be in addition to the base salary.
40 hrs/week
50% Telecommuting permitted.
Multiple positions available.
Additional benefits for this role may include: equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses; 401(k) plan; medical, dental, and vision benefits; and wellness stipends. CA42 #LI-DNI