Director, Compensation
Leads Instacart’s broad-based compensation strategy, programs, equity approach, and international expansion work while advising senior leaders and managing a compensation team. Requires 10+ years of progressive compensation experience, deep equity expertise, and experience supporting large R&D or Engineering organizations.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own the broad-based compensation strategy, programs, frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships end to end.
- Design and deliver annual and mid-year compensation cycles with increased precision and speed.
- Partner with HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, and senior business leaders on executive offers, retention decisions, organizational changes, and pay equity matters.
- Develop and evolve competitive, forward-looking equity compensation programs and communications.
- Lead and coach a high-performing team of compensation business partners while maintaining individual-contributor responsibilities.
- Support international expansion by building compensation frameworks, market data, and guidance for new countries.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive compensation experience, including at least 3 years in people management.
- Experience supporting large R&D or Engineering organizations and advising VP/SVP-level leaders on complex compensation decisions.
- Deep expertise in equity compensation design and strategy at a technology company where equity is central to the compensation philosophy.
- Experience building compensation programs at scale, including job architecture, market pricing, performance cycles, and pay-for-performance frameworks.
- Ability to turn complex data into clear executive recommendations.
- Strong spreadsheet skills, including Google Sheets and Excel.
- Interest in applying AI and technology to improve compensation work, with initiative to build solutions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Sales/GTM organizations in addition to R&D.
- Exposure to executive compensation design and strategy.
- International compensation experience, particularly for expansion into new geographies.
- Familiarity with AI or advanced analytics tools such as Tableau, SQL, and Python.
Compensation
- Base salary: CAD 200,000–211,000 annually.
- Eligible for a new-hire equity grant and annual refresh grants.
- Benefits provided according to the employer's offerings and work location.
Skills
Equity Compensation, Compensation Strategy, Job Architecture, Market Pricing, Pay Equity, Performance Management, Google Sheets, Excel, Tableau, SQL, Python, AI
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