Director of Equity & Executive Compensation, MongoDB
$118-231k
Developer data platform
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Developer data platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$118-231k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
Role
Who you are
- 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!
- Dedicated team player: You operate as a trusted partner, taking ownership while supporting senior leaders and contributing to team success
- Hands-on operator: You’re comfortable diving into the details, building models, running analyses, and executing programs with precision
- Structured problem solver: You bring clarity and organization to complex or ambiguous situations and improve processes as you go
- Experience: 12+ years in compensation, with experience leading executive compensation and equity programs in a global organization
- Compensation expertise: Solid understanding of executive compensation structures, equity programs, and incentive design principles
- Analytical strength: Strong modeling and data analysis skills; advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets
- Project management: Able to manage multiple priorities, timelines, and stakeholders with strong follow-through
- Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities
- Global perspective: Experience working across regions and navigating different market practices and regulations
What the job involves
- Our Global Compensation team is looking for an Executive Compensation Director to play a significant leadership role in designing, implementing and supporting MongoDB’s global compensation program
- Reporting to the head of Total Rewards, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering core compensation initiatives (focused on, but not limited to, executive and stock compensation)
- You’ll also contribute to ongoing improvements across our HR and compensation processes, working closely with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency and consistency
- Support design and analysis of executive compensation programs, including base salary, annual incentives, and long-term equity
- Deliver equity programs end-to-end, including grant processes (RSUs, PSUs), performance tracking, and budget management
- Administer exec compensation plans
- Conduct benchmarking, modeling, and market analysis to assess competitiveness of equity pay programs
- Translate complex data into clear insights to support compensation decisions and pay-for-performance alignment
- Prepare and coordinate quarterly Compensation Committee materials in partnership with external consultants, the Director of Compensation, and VP Total Rewards and Legal
- Support development of board-level presentations and analysis, ensuring accuracy and clarity
- Manage timelines, data inputs, and stakeholder alignment for Compensation Committee deliverables
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and corporate governance standards
- Support executive compensation disclosures, including proxy materials and internal reporting
- Partner with Legal, Finance, and external advisors on governance and risk management
- Partner with Compensation Operations to execute compensation processes accurately and at scale
- Maintain data integrity across systems, models, and reports
- Support audits, documentation, and continuous improvement of compensation programs
- Partner cross-functionally with HR, Finance, Legal, and senior stakeholders
- Communicate complex compensation topics clearly and effectively
Our take
MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, document-oriented database system. It stores data as JSON-like documents and is written in C++, Go, JavaScript and Python.
Essentially, the company develops tools and blueprints to help businesses and organisations modernise their legacy applications, migrating them to the MongoDB database and the MongoDB Atlas cloud database. With this initiative, MongoDB is particularly taking aim at Oracle customers with ageing applications running on the Oracle relational database system.
Since its release, MongoDB has become one of the most popularly used NoSQL database systems due to its ease of use and efficiency. It is also the fastest-growing database ecosystem, and boasts hundreds of millions of downloads. Recently, the company announced a partnership with Patronus AI, an automated evaluation and security platform, through which it will bring automated LLM evaluation and testing capabilities to enterprise customers.
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Insights
13% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2015
$80m
SERIES G
Oct 2013
$150m
SERIES F
Total funding: $311.1m
Company benefits
- Rich health insurance coverage
- Virtual & on-site fitness classes
- Health screenings & telemedicine
- Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
- Global and internal mobility opportunities
- Equity & Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Pension & retirement programs
- Income Protection
- Flexible PTO is offered to every US employee & competitive time off policies for non-US employees
- Employee Assistance Program
- Mental health counseling
- Free meditation app access
- Fertility & adoption financial assistance
- Parental counseling for new parents
- 20 weeks of fully paid gender neutral parental leave & flexible work arrangements
- 4 weeks of emergency care leave
Company HQ
Theater District, New York, NY
Leadership
Dwight Merriman
(Co-Founder)Previously CTO and Co-founder at DoubleClick for 10 years, and Chairman at AlleyCorp for 15 years.
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