Senior Director, Compensation
What You Will Do
- Define and evolve global compensation strategy aligned with business goals, growth stage, and talent needs
- Advises senior leaders (Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A) on compensation trends, market competitiveness, and equity practices
- Balances market competitiveness, pay equity, and cost efficiency in a fast-moving tech environment
- Lead the design and evolution of global compensation philosophy, ensuring alignment with company strategy, talent needs, and market competitiveness
- Own job architecture strategy, including leveling frameworks, job families, and career structures, to support consistency, clarity, and growth at scale
- Drive complex, cross-functional compensation initiatives from concept through implementation, acting as DRI and accountable owner for outcomes, timelines, and quality
- Partner with Director, Compensation Operations to design and implement scalable frameworks, tools, and processes that enable effective, consistent compensation decision-making globally
- Benchmark against peer tech companies and evolving talent markets
- Lead and develop a global team of Compensation Partners supporting multiple business units
- Advise on hiring offers, promotions, retention, and organizational changes, especially for critical technical roles
- Use data and market insights to guide compensation decisions in competitive talent markets
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:
- Partner with Finance on compensation planning, forecasting, and equity spend
- Collaborate with HRIS and People Analytics to improve tools, modeling, and reporting
- Work with Recruiting to support competitive, scalable hiring strategies
- Team Leadership:
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing compensation team
- Create alignment, trust, and camaraderie across teams
- Lead through influence, develop others, and foster an environment of high performance and collaboration
About MongoDB
MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB's unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we're powering the next era of software.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is: $151,000—$297,000 USD