Director of Total Rewards

📋 Description

• Own and set Chainguard's total rewards strategy across compensation and benefits
• Manage and develop the Total Rewards team
• Lead our approach to global compensation and benefits strategy as we expand into new international
• Partner with the business to balance employee experience with cost efficiency, identifying legacy
• Stay ahead of market trends in compensation and benefits, helping Chainguard remain competitive for
• Oversee banding, market pricing, and merit cycles, in partnership with the Compensation Manager

🎯 Requirements

• 8-10 years of progressive compensation and benefits experience, including 3+ years in a management
• Proven experience setting total rewards strategy, with a strong background in either compensation
• Experience scaling total rewards programs at a high-growth SaaS or startup company, ideally through
• End-to-end experience running compensation cycles — job architecture, market pricing
• Experience with equity program design and administration, including cap table fluency (Carta
• Strong command of market pricing and benchmarking tools (Radford, Pave, Mercer, or similar)

🎁 Benefits

• Flexible & Remote-First Culture
• Receive stock options
• 100% covered health insurance
• Flexible Time Off
• 18 weeks paid parental leave