Compensation Partner, Couchbase
Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- Circa 5+ years experience within a global compensation function
- Have experience and an understanding of budgeting
- Demonstrated robust understanding of compensation practices and market conditions across numerous countries and regions
- A strong understanding of compensation best practices, current compensation trends, and market benchmark data
- Proven analytical skills with a keen eye for detail
- In-depth knowledge of Excel/Google Sheets including building and maintaining complex models
- Experience communicating effectively across teams, including translating quantitative insights to non-quantitative audiences
- Strong consultation and collaboration skills
- Capability to handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
- Experience in UKG preferred
- Bachelor's degree and compensation certification preferred
What the job involves
- Couchbase is looking for a hands-on, data-oriented Compensation Partner
- You will own and partner on compensation initiatives broadly, along with another Compensation Partner, reporting to the Senior Director of Total Rewards
- You will take specific ownership of your designated functional areas, working closely with the HR Business Partners and leaders for those areas and solidify Couchbase offerings
- Implement our rewards philosophy and principles in compensation-related decisions and processes
- Play a key role to support the research, analysis, design, communication, and implementation of compensation programs
- Contribute to the development of compensation bands based on market data
- Act as a consultant and analyst on equity programs
- Plan for and execute our compensation cycles in conjunction with the compensation and cross functional teams
- Monitor, interpret and implement relevant changes related to government regulations/legislation
- Partner and maintain strong relationships with HR Business Partners, Recruiters, Sales Compensation / Operations, Finance, Managers, and Leadership on compensation matters
- Understand our employees’ needs with regard to compensation, what feedback they have and how we can optimize for that
- Design, develop and deliver educational material on compensation to build employee understanding of the value being offered to them
Salary benchmarks
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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