Compensation Manager

Chainguard is the trusted source for open source. By delivering hardened, secure, and production-ready builds of all the open source software engineers and AI agents rely on, Chainguard helps organizations build faster, stay compliant, and eliminate risk. Our customers include Fortune 500 enterprises and global industry leaders, including Anduril, Canva, Fortinet, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, OpenAI, Snap Inc., and Snowflake. Chainguard is venture-backed by leading investors, including Amplify, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis VC, Redpoint Ventures, Sequoia Capital, and Spark Capital. (east coast preferred) The Role in a Nutshell: Chainguard is hiring a Compensation Manager to join our Total Rewards team as a strategic individual contributor. As the company continues to scale rapidly, this role will serve as a key partner to the Global Total Rewards Manager and the broader People team, helping to define and operationalize our compensation philosophy, reviewing and updating our comp bands as needed, and build a world-class global compensation function. This is a highly cross-functional, high-impact IC role. You will work closely with PBPs, Finance, and Recruiting, and will need to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution. What You'll Own Lead the annual review of compensation bands, benchmarking against market data (Radford/Pave) and providing r