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About the role

  • Director of Compensation shaping equity and broad-based pay strategy at Instacart, a grocery delivery technology company. Leading compensation programs, international expansion, and a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

  • Own broad-based compensation strategy end-to-end
  • Design and deliver annual and mid-year compensation cycles
  • Partner with HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, and senior business leaders
  • Advise on executive offers, retention decisions, organizational changes, and pay equity questions
  • Drive changes to equity compensation design and communication
  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of compensation business partners
  • Maintain individual-contributor responsibilities as a compensation business partner
  • Lead international expansion compensation work, including frameworks, market data, and guidance for new countries
  • Report to the Head of Total Rewards

Requirements

  • 10+ years of progressive compensation experience
  • At least 3 years leading a people management role
  • Proven track record supporting large R&D or Engineering functions
  • Experience advising VP/SVP-level leaders on complex compensation decisions
  • Deep expertise in equity compensation design and strategy
  • Experience at a tech 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
  • Expertise in spreadsheet work using gSheets and Excel
  • Genuine interest in using AI and technology to improve compensation work
  • Preferred: Experience supporting Sales/GTM client groups alongside R&D
  • Preferred: Exposure to executive compensation design and strategy
  • Preferred: International compensation experience
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Tableau, SQL, or Python

Benefits

  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Flexible choice of work location (home, office, or coffee shop)
  • Regular in-person events
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

CA$200,000 - CA$211,000 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

PythonSQLTableau

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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