Senior Director of Total Rewards, Couchbase
$194-228k
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Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$194-228k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience playing a leadership role in total rewards in a public company within the high tech industry
- An ability to act in both a hands-on manner and to think strategically as we both solve for immediate needs and plan for the future
- Extensive knowledge of the total rewards ecosystem including tools, comp data partners, ongoing developments in this space
- Ability and desire to work in a fast-growing, globally distributed, dynamic environment
- Expertise working with all levels in a company, including deep experience with senior leaders and with Compensation Committees
- Ability to lead with influence and expertise
- Advanced analytical skills, mastery of Excel and PowerPoint, and familiarity with UKG
- CCP (Certified Compensation Professional) certification a plus
What the job involves
- Couchbase is looking for a hands-on, strategic Senior Director, Total Rewards
- You will be a key partner to the Couchbase executive staff and Compensation Committee in developing and implementing a total rewards philosophy, architecture and processes across a performance driven, culture-led, high-growth company
- You will Create Value and your impact will Be Valued. As a People team leader, you will be an organizational and talent game changer, taking ownership, building and executing our total rewards philosophy, processes and programs
- You will directly impact the futures of the world class team who work at Couchbase and solidify Couchbase's reputation as an "employer of choice
- Evolve our global Total Reward programs and provide thought leadership, ensuring we meet our goals of attracting, developing and retaining world class talent while maintaining fiscal discipline
- Develop our Couchbase total rewards philosophy, securing buy-in from senior leadership, detailing our approach to cash compensation, incentives, stock-based compensation, global benefits, pay equity and more
- Develop a set of guiding principles, aligned to our values, that outline our approach to merit and promotion cycles
- Work with People Partnering to ensure a robust and timely plan for merit and promotion cycles
- Prepare qualitative and quantitative models as required to support consideration of compensation options and decision rubrics
- Work with Finance with respect to proactive and prudent equity pool management
- With our Chief People Officer, prepare for and contribute to our Compensation Committee meetings, working with Committee members to ensure they are informed as required, and giving approvals and advice as needed
- Evolve our Executive compensation practices, including reviewing our philosophy and market data, ensuring alignment with Comp Committee
- Work closely with Legal and our executive compensation partners on preparing Couchbase for exiting emerging growth status and initial preparation of required disclosures including CEO pay ratio
- Contribute to employees’ understanding of the value of their total rewards, including designing and delivering digestible learning content
- Work with our Director, Talent Development on launching a robust career architecture for both individual contributors and people leaders, in both technical and non-technical roles including a promotion readiness assessment rubric and process
- Conduct analyses of pay equity and build checks into our merit and promotion cycles to ensure that we are distributing rewards appropriately
- Oversee any associated vendor relationships, including the provision of appropriate market data
- Oversee our suite of wellbeing and benefits offerings, ensuring our approach within each country and across our countries is aligned with our values and our budgets (we have employees in the US, across Europe, in India and elsewhere). Benefits include retirement planning, ESPP, insurances, wellbeing offering and more
- Work with technical teams in reviewing our Total Rewards tech stack (currently SimplyMerit and UKG) and play a lead role in future platform evaluations, design and implementations
- Become a trusted advisor to Couchbase leadership and the total rewards expert across the People team
- Lead a global team which currently consists of four people across compensation and benefits
Our take
Critical functions for digital businesses such as computing and storage have become cheaper by orders of magnitude with the advent of cloud computing. However, these businesses still face the challenge of architecting their services under this paradigm. Couchbase’s NoSQL database is designed to help organizations build scalable, distributed systems that take advantage of cloud-native infrastructure.
The company's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile and NoSQL have paid off too. With many large enterprises now treating Couchbase as mission-critical infrastructure, a trajectory that culminated because of ts 2021 IPO. While it operates in a highly competitive database market, the company has continued to grow post-IPO and is now positioning itself around the next shift in enterprise architecture: AI-native applications.
The recent launch of Couchbase AI Services reflects an effort to unify operational data, vector search and model hosting within a single platform, reducing the complexity that often prevents generative AI and agent-based systems from moving beyond proof-of-concept. By embedding governance, validation and security controls directly into the data layer, Couchbase is aiming to make its database a core foundation for production AI workloads.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company HQ
Cypress, San Jose, CA
Leadership
BJ Schaknowski
(CEO)Prior to joining Couchbase in 2025, BJ was the CEO of symplr. He also served as the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Vertafore and as an SVP of Marketing, Sales & Services at LexisNexis Software Solutions.
Veronica Curran
(CPO)Veronica Previously founded Magnolia People Solutions where she served as a Managing Partner for nearly 2 years. Prior to that, she was the Chief People and culture Officer at SmartBear and the CPO at Alumni Ventures Group.
Gopi Duddi
(CTO)Gopi joined Couchbase in 2022 as an SVP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at Amazon AWS, joining in 2012 as a Senior Manager of Database Services before moving into the role of GM. He also spent 7 years at IBM In various Managerial roles.
Josh Harbert
(CMO)Josh is also the co-founder and President of SustainableIT.org. Previously, he served as the CMO at Delphix and the VP of Marketing at Tanium and Qumulo.
Amir Jafari
(CFO)Amir is also the CFO/Head of Finance & Operations at Blend. Previously, he served as the CFO at Plastiq and Reputation.com.
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