Senior Manager Compensation R&DActive$218K
The opportunity
Databricks is looking for a strategic compensation leader who likes to build. You'll be a trusted partner to founders and senior leaders in our Engineering organization.
What you'll do
Build trust through analytical rigor. You present well-reasoned models and: effectively articulate complex analysis to engineering leaders who will test your assumptions.
Navigate fast-paced priorities with resilience. You maintain focus, sound: judgment, and positivity when balancing competing deadlines and feedback.
Offer constructive perspectives. You confidently partner with senior: stakeholders to propose data-backed alternative solutions and drive alignment to finalize decisions.
Embrace feedback as a growth tool. You extract actionable insights from: feedback and respond with clarity and openness.
Create order from ambiguity. When there's no playbook, you build one, and: you're comfortable acting on 80% of the information.
Work directly with Engineering leaders to diagnose talent challenges, such as: competition for AI/ML and infrastructure talent, hard-to-fill specialist roles, rapid team scaling, acquisitions and reorganizations. Then design attraction and retention solutions that solve them.
What they're looking for
- Turn vague or urgent requests into clear options with explicit tradeoffs, and help leaders reach a decision.
- Serve as the main compensation advisor on strategic technical hires (senior: ICs, distinguished engineers, research leaders and engineering executives) and on high-stakes retention cases.
- Advise on technical leveling, including IC and management career paths and: how compensation should differ across them.
- Run merit, refresh equity and promotion cycles end to end for global R&D teams.
