Senior Director, Total Rewards

4 weeks ago


Santa Clara, California, United States Couchbase Full time

About the Role

Couchbase is seeking a highly skilled Senior Director, Total Rewards to join our team. As a key member of our People team, you will be responsible for developing and implementing a total rewards philosophy, architecture, and processes across our performance-driven, culture-led, high-growth company.

Key Responsibilities

  • Evolving our global Total Reward programs and providing thought leadership to ensure we meet our goals of attracting, developing, and retaining world-class talent while maintaining fiscal discipline
  • Developing our Couchbase total rewards philosophy, securing buy-in from senior leadership, and detailing our approach to cash compensation, incentives, stock-based compensation, global benefits, pay equity, and more
  • Developing a set of guiding principles, aligned to our values, that outline our approach to merit and promotion cycles
  • Working with People Partnering to ensure a robust and timely plan for merit and promotion cycles
  • Preparing qualitative and quantitative models as required to support consideration of compensation options and decision rubrics
  • Working with Finance with respect to proactive and prudent equity pool management
  • Contributing to our Compensation Committee meetings, working with Committee members to ensure they are informed as required, and giving approvals and advice as needed
  • Evolution of our Executive compensation practices, including reviewing our philosophy and market data, ensuring alignment with Comp Committee
  • Working 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
  • Contributing to employees' understanding of the value of their total rewards, including designing and delivering digestible learning content
  • Working 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
  • Conducting analyses of pay equity and building checks into our merit and promotion cycles to ensure that we are distributing rewards appropriately
  • Overseeing any associated vendor relationships, including the provision of appropriate market data
  • Overseeing 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
  • Working with technical teams in reviewing our Total Rewards tech stack and playing a lead role in future platform evaluations, design, and implementations
  • Becoming a trusted advisor to Couchbase leadership and the total rewards expert across the People team
  • Leading a global team which currently consists of four people across compensation and benefits

About Us

Couchbase is a leading provider of modern, cloud-native database technology. Our 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.

Why Couchbase?

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


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