Senior Director, Compensation

What You Will Do

• Define and evolve global compensation strategy aligned with business goals, growth stage, and talent needs
• Advisory role to senior leaders (Engineering, Product, Sales, and G&A) on compensation trends, market competitiveness, and equity practices
• Balance 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.

  Compensation

  MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is $151,000—$297,000 USD. 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. MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter. MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.