Every day we tackle new and exciting challenges to empower developers to build modern cloud, mobile, and edge applications that deliver a premium user experience. Couchbase delivers unmatched performance, scalability, flexibility and financial value across cloud, on premises, hybrid, mobile and edge deployments. The database market is undergoing a generational shift and is one of the largest market opportunities in enterprise software due to big trends like the need for digital transformation, acceleration to the cloud and innovation at the edge. Join Couchbase to be a part of a greater change. Here you’ll have the opportunity to learn and grow with some of the most innovative, passionate and humble individuals in the database industry.
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." Come help us Make Tomorrow Better Than Today, Start Now.
This position is US-remote with travel to the Bay Area for quarterly Compensation Committee and occasional other meetings.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills & Abilities
- 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
The anticipated starting base pay range for this role is listed below. Base salary is not the only component of our competitive total rewards package - you may also be eligible for bonus, commissions, equity, and other benefits as described below. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.
Base Pay Range
$194,000—$228,000 USD
Why Couchbase?
Modern customer experiences need a flexible cloud database platform that can power applications spanning from cloud to edge and everything in between. Couchbase’s mission is to simplify how developers and architects develop, deploy and consume modern applications wherever they are. We have reimagined the database with our fast, flexible and affordable cloud database platform Capella, allowing organizations to quickly build applications that deliver premium experiences to their customers– all with best-in-class price performance. More than 30% of the Fortune 100 trust Couchbase to power their modern applications and build innovative new ones. See our recent awards to learn why Couchbase is a great place to work.We are honored to be a part of the Best Places to Work Award for the Bay Area and the UK. Couchbase offers a total rewards approach to benefits that recognizes the value you create here, so that you in turn may best serve yourself and your family. Some benefits include:
- 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!
*Note: some programs are not applicable to all countries. Please discuss with a Couchbase recruiter to learn more.
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