Senior Director of Total Rewards, Couchbase
$194-228k
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Enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database
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Enterprise-class, multicloud to edge NoSQL database
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 makes taking advantage of these features possible.
The cloud vendor's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile, and of course, NoSQL have paid off. Many of the world’s largest companies have come to consider this software as mission-critical and Couchbase has benefitted from this as exemplified by its IPO in 2021.
The biggest challenge for Couchbase is that it is playing in a large but competitive market, with the likes of DataStax and the publically traded MongoDB, and all the major cloud vendors vying for similar customers in the NoSQL space. However, Couchbase continues to grow post-IPO and serves influential clients including Mariott International, Amadeus, and LinkedIn.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company benefits
- Generous Time Off Program - Flexibility to care for you and your family
- Wellness Benefits - A variety of world class medical plans to choose from, along with dental, vision, life insurance, and employee assistance programs
- Financial Planning - RSU equity program, ESPP program, Retirement program and Business Travel Insurance
- Career Growth - Be valued, Create value approach
- Fun Perks - An ergonomic and comfortable in-office / WFH setup. Food & Snacks for in-office employees
- And much more!
Company values
- Be a Good Human, Always - Be authentic, assume and act with positive intent, even in tough times
- Act With Uncompromising Integrity, Period - Do the right thing every time, be honest and transparent
- Serve Your Family, As Defined by You - Put your family first and let the company work for you in times of need
- Attack Hard Problems, Driven by Customer Outcomes - Be courageous and innovative. Satisfy unmet, underserved needs delivering technical excellence and honesty
- Play to Win, Together - Put in work, be proud of it and be a great teammate for your colleagues
- Make Tomorrow Better Than Today, Start Now - Execute with intensity and urgency, knowing you have an impact
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Articles
Leadership
Matt Cain
(Chair, President & CEO)Previously spent 2 years at Veritas Technologies, initially as Executive Vice President before becoming President of Worldwide Field Operations. Prior to that, they were VP/Senior VP at Symantec and also spent 6 years at Cisco Systems in various roles, including Senior Director of Product Management and Business Development.
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