Senior Director, Compensation

MongoDB’s People team is on a journey to optimize our compensation programs for scale. We are looking for strategic and analytical individuals to drive innovative, competitive compensation rewards programs that attract, reward and retain our best assets, our people!

To that end, our Global Compensation team is looking for a Senior Director, Compensation Partners to play significant leadership across MongoDB’s global compensation programs, co-leading the team alongside the Director of Compensation Operations Reporting to our VP, Total Rewards, you will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and a key architect of our compensation strategy as we continue to scale globally.

What You Will Do

Strategic Leadership

Define and evolve global compensation strategy aligned with business goals, growth stage, and talent needs

Advise 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

Compensation Programs Projects

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

Business Partnership

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

Build a culture of accountability, data-driven decision-making, and continuous improvement

Who You Are

Strategic leader and trusted advisor: You shape decisions and influence outcomes at the senior leadership level, owning complex, high-impact initiatives end-to-end across strategy and execution.

Operator with executive range: You seamlessly move between detail and big picture, diving deep when needed, connecting cross-functional dots, and driving enterprise-wide impact. You thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment, bringing focus and prioritization while navigating shifting demands and organizational complexity.

Driver of clarity, alignment, and execution: You cut through ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and align stakeholders to make clear decisions and deliver results across complex initiatives.

Compensation expert with SaaS and global perspective 15+ years of experience with deep expertise in broadbased, Sales incentives plan design, and executive compensation, ideally within SaaS environments. Experienced operating internationally, with strong understanding of global market practices and regulatory considerations.

Builder of teams and culture

You create alignment, trust, and camaraderie across teams. You 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.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fert…