In this episode of Unpack Pricing, Scott Woody, co-founder and CEO of Metronome, talks with Justin Farris, VP of Product and Monetization at GitLab, a DevSecOps platform.

They discuss how GitLab successfully unified product-led growth, pricing strategy, and core systems under a single leader. Justin (ex-Zillow) shares why treating pricing as a product feature—not just a revenue lever—has been critical to GitLab's success, how they maintain one transparent price book across both self-service and enterprise customers, and why their buyer-based tiering model drives alignment between product and go-to-market teams. Justin also discusses how GitLab balances PLG and enterprise sales motions, how they avoid the "Cheesecake Factory menu" problem when creating add-ons, and his perspective on emerging AI pricing models that go beyond simple consumption-based approaches.

FULL TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE HERE:

https://metronome.com/podcast/unpack-pricing/gitlabs-playbook-for-running-plg-and-enterprise-motions-with-justin-farris 

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Gitlab: https://about.gitlab.com/

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Timestamps (Updated):

(00:00) Preview and Intro

(01:17) Justin's background at Zillow, journey to GitLab and current role

(03:28) Discussion on PLG vs. sales-led motions at Dropbox and GitLab

(06:02) Making PLG and sales partnership work - organizational structure

(09:03) Aligning growth and go-to-market teams through shared metrics

(11:02) Connecting product metrics to revenue impact and growth

(13:39) Advice for companies looking to unify PLG and sales motions

(14:39) Executive alignment: avoiding over-rotation to enterprise

(17:02) GitLab's buyer-based pricing model and transparent price book

(20:34) Pricing as core to product experience, not just a revenue lever

(23:02) Packaging strategy: good-better-best vs. add-on approaches

(26:22) Managing complexity: when to simplify product and pricing

(29:35) Feeding packaging research back to product strategy

(31:36) Testing new pricing models with limited availability products

(34:48) Product leaders as GMs: understanding commercial implications

(38:43) Everyone has opinions on pricing - finding alignment in organizations

(39:49) AI pricing trends: from co-pilots to new commercial models

(44:30) Buyer-based AI pricing and value-based models

(49:14) Learning from startups' pricing innovations

(50:27) Wrap