Compensation Manager

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

This role will report into the Director, Field Operations Compensation and have end-to-end accountability to directly work with HR Business Partners (HRBPs), Finance, Sales Operations and other subject matter experts as necessary to drive the Compensation agenda forward.   

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Singapore for our hybrid working model.

Key Responsibilities

• Asia-Pacific Accountabilities
• Responsible for ensuring Asia-Pacific total compensation is competitive and appropriate to take into account specific regional nuances and norms
• Partnering directly with HRBPs to resolve challenges and build new proposals to pay structures / organizational design
• Provide HRBPs and Business Leadership with periodic key insights of Asia-Pacific compensation trends and unique issues / challenges / opportunities
• Provide ad-hoc comp partnering for Asia-Pacific issues pertaining to other Business Units for time-sensitive matters

• Broader Projects
• Drive the HR transformation agenda on behalf of the global compensation team and partner on critical team projects
• Specific project work may include global salary and equity band competitive reviews, job architecture and technology enhancements (may include Robotic Process Automations, and implementation of new technologies, such as GenAI capabilities etc)

• Pre- & Post-Sales Org Accountabilities
• Work with HRBPs and other partners to plan and deliver the mid-year and year-end compensation cycles, which include delivery of promotions, merit, bonus and equity compensation
• Provide HRBPs and Business Leadership with periodic key insights of compensation trends and unique issues / challenges / opportunities, gleaned primarily through the compensation cycles
• Work with HRBPs on business specific initiatives as they come up for the Pre- & Post-Sales Orgs
• Partner with our FP&A team to support the preparation of cost modeling to inform quarterly promotional spend and forecast financial year budgetary requirements [ie merit / promotion]
• Empowering and enabling business leaders to have thoughtful and productive compensation conversations with their teams by designing and delivering training and enablement tools to ensure there is clarity on MongoDB’s compensation philosophy and how we operationalize it through our various programs

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Relevant Experience
• 8+ years of meaningful experience in Compensation, ideally with clear experience in dealing with Asia-Pacific issues ).
• Deep influencing skills with stakeholders in a multi-time zone, complex and evolving business, including business leaders, HR Business Partners, Finance Partners, Technology Partners, to name a few.
• Ideally, the successful candidate will also have some experience working with Sales or Field Operations teams (including Pre-Sales, Sales and Post-Sales functions).  However this is not mandatory and as long as there is a desire to learn, this can be a development opportunity.
• An ongoing and strong pulse on the Market, including peer networking ties to Compensation and HR professionals in relevant peer SaaS companies.

• Key Navigation Skills
• Excellent communicator via all channels (in person, online, in writing) and able to form strong working relationships both in person and virtuallyYou will be able to operate at multiple altitudes, prioritize workload and manage multiple projects and tasks
• Highly organised, with incredibly strong project management skills. You will need to be detail oriented, love multi-tasking and have excellent follow through skills
• You will be process oriented and enjoy creating process and structure where there may be ambiguity and be skilled at finding creative solutions to non-obvious problems. On any given day, you could find yourself in the operational/tactical details, followed by meetings focused on vision / strategy!
• Ideally you will have experience of working remotely and/or internationally coordinating with peers and team members globally and understand the challenges and opportunities of remote working and remote communication.
• Ability to succeed in a collaborative, startup-paced environment, with good business acumen.
• Advanced skills in MS Office / G-Suite, especially GSheets, with an ability to navigate a multi-layered Compensation Technology Stack (including Tableau, SuccessFactors, and other systems).

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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*MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer*

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