Senior Engineering Compensation Leader—AI-Driven

Databricks Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 174,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a strategic compensation leader who partners with founders and senior Engineering leaders to design compensation solutions that attract, retain, and motivate world-class engineering and technical talent. You will build scalable tools using AI and serve as a trusted advisor to drive alignment and data-driven decisions.

You will work on engineering compensation strategies, lifecycle programs, and global market pricing, with a heavy emphasis on analytics, equity design, and

Qualifications

• Expert-level analytical modeling including cost-of-program scenarios and retention-risk modeling.
• Experience building AI-enabled compensation tools, models or workflows.
• Track record advising senior leaders on compensation decisions with data-driven insights.
• Strong understanding of market pricing, pay-for-performance design, and equity strategy.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose talent challenges and design attraction and retention solutions for engineering and technical roles.
• Turn requests into clear options with tradeoffs and help leaders decide.
• Lead as the main compensation advisor on strategic hires, promotions and retention cases.

Skills

Analytical modeling

AI tools experience

Executive advisory

Statistical judgment

Global compensation

Tools

Tableau

Job description

Databricks is seeking a strategic compensation leader who partners with founders and senior Engineering leaders to design compensation solutions that attract, retain, and motivate world-class engineering and technical talent. You will build scalable tools using AI and serve as a trusted advisor to drive alignment and data-driven decisions.

You will work on engineering compensation strategies, lifecycle programs, and global market pricing, with a heavy emphasis on analytics, equity design, and