Job Description
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 DoStrategic 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
- 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
- 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
- Lead coach and develop a high-performing compensation team
- Build a culture of accountability data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement
- 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.
MongoDB is built for change empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era enabling innovators to create transform and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform the most widely available globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 60000 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 fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB and help us make an impact on the world!
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.
Req ID #2273426452
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.
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05/02/2026
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