Engineering Manager - Pricing

Join our team as an Engineering Manager - Pricing!

The Engineering Manager, Pricing leads a team of software engineers, applied ML engineers, and technical product managers responsible for the pricing engine and its supporting services across Protolabs. The capability and roadmap for pricing overall, the creation and ongoing management of LLM-driven capabilities that power pricing strategy and ensuring pricing is delivered as a true enterprise capability consistently supporting factory vs. network fulfillment, differentiated by service line, and differentiated between prototype and production rather than a collection of one-off pricing solutions.

This role sits at the center of a deliberately distributed pricing model: pricing analysts sit within a separate central pricing team to drive fast, locally informed decisions but ensure enterprise strategy at the same time. This role owns the shared engine, architecture, and strategy those decisions run on. Success means service lines get the speed and specificity they need without the company ending up with inconsistent, duplicated, or ungoverned pricing logic underneath them.

Be yourself at Protolabs  Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification.  We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a diverse team that feels they are valued in the workplace.  So do you feel you do not meet every single requirement but still intrigued? We encourage you to still apply!  You can help make our company even better.  We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, age, mental or physical ability, or any way you represent yourself.  We strongly believe diversity makes for more successful teams.  Why Protolabs?  We are the leaders in digital manufacturing.  We hire doers, makers, and creative thinkers who tackle our roles with an entrepreneurial spirit.  Our culture is centered around meaningful work that brings new and innovative products to market at unprecedented speeds.  We are a diverse team that comes from all walks of life and take pride in our team who is smart, genuine, humble, and passionate about what we do.  It’s our people who fuel our creativity and make our culture feel like home.

What You Will Do:

Work with senior management and pricing leadership to set priorities for pricing engine and pricing services development, manage related projects, assign team members, and provide day-to-day technical directions

Own the capability and roadmap for the pricing engine defining the multi-year strategy for how pricing rules, models, and services evolve as the business grows in complexity

Guide problem analysis, solution design, development, and testing of pricing capabilities, ensuring the engine supports differentiated rules and models across factory vs. network fulfillment, by service line, and prototype vs. production

Lead the creation and ongoing management of LLM-based capabilities that support pricing strategy, for example, using LLMs to help generate or recommend pricing rules, translate business pricing strategy into executable logic, or support pricing related decisioning — including their ongoing evaluation, retraining, and governance

Ensure the pricing engine and its services are built and operated as a true enterprise capability, with consistent architecture and shared services, rather than siloed or duplicated implementations across service lines or fulfillment paths

Recommend process improvements to raise pricing engine quality and reliability and to meet broader business objectives, including margin, conversion, and competitiveness

Hire, manage, and develop a skilled staff spanning software engineering, applied ML/LLM development, and technical product management

Provide ongoing management and development of team members, including mentoring on advances in pricing methodology, ML/LLM techniques, and software engineering practices

Monitor pricing engine quality and continuous improvement efforts; recommend new methods or processes to improve pricing accuracy, competitiveness, and margin outcomes

Partner closely with service-line-embedded pricing analysts and their leaders to ensure the central pricing capability serves their strategies while maintaining enterprise-wide consistency and governance

What You Bring:

What's In It For You:

Part of our incredible journey is clearly down to our amazing team, and we strongly believe in giving people a space to truly, authentically be themselves. We also believe that treating our employees well and sprinkling a great place to work with some nice perks can make work a little sweeter.

Annual company bonus. We celebrate success together! Employees are not only rewarded for their achievements but also for contributing to the overall success of the business.

Wellness and well-being with access to OpenUp psychologists, practice mindfulness with Headspace and tons more.

Doggo-friendly office. We are big pet lovers and fully encourage hanging out with your (and your colleagues’) furry friends in the office

Daily Lunch and snacks are provided in the office; it's a moment for our teams to connect and recharge. Shared meals strengthen our bonds and fuel collaboration.

We offer learning and development days to be used for training or on volunteering, money to spend on learning courses, events, trainings, Access to our in-house LEARN platform with diverse courses, training, and workshops, In-house 3D Printing and much more!

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