Director, CompensationNew

The opportunity

At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community.

What you'll do

  • + years of progressive compensation experience, with at least 3 years leading a people management role.

  • Proven track record directly supporting large R&D or Engineering functions,: with experience advising VP/SVP-level leaders on complex compensation decisions and earning their trust.

  • Deep expertise in equity compensation design and strategy. You've worked at: a tech company where equity is central to the comp philosophy, and you know how to shape it, not just administer it.

  • Experience building compensation programs at scale, not just operating within: inherited ones: job architecture, market pricing, performance cycles, and pay-for-performance frameworks.

  • You can transform disparate data into a clear recommendation for executives.: Expertise in spreadsheet work (gSheets and Excel).

  • A genuine interest in how AI and technology can make compensation work: better, and the initiative to actually go build it.

What they're looking for

  • Experience supporting Sales/GTM client groups alongside R&D.
  • Exposure to executive compensation design and strategy.
  • International compensation experience, especially in the context of expanding into new geographies.
  • Familiarity with AI or advanced analytics tools (Tableau, SQL, Python) to accelerate compensation work.