# Director of Total Rewards at Chainguard

- Company: Chainguard
- What the company does: Chainguard provides trusted open source artifacts for every layer of your modern software stack—containers, language libraries, and VM images. Backed by General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
- Company website: https://www.chainguard.dev/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-09-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-29
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chainguard/jobs/4713282006
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chainguard-director-of-total-rewards/

## About the role

The role, in a nutshell: We're looking for a Director of Total Rewards to own compensation and benefits strategy as Chainguard scales from a startup into its next phase of growth. This role will lead our Total Rewards team, managing our Compensation Manager and Benefits team, and will be responsible for setting the strategy that keeps us competitive as we compete for talent against some of the biggest names in tech.

## What they're looking for

- 8-10 years of progressive compensation and benefits experience, including 3+ years in a management capacity
- Proven experience setting total rewards strategy, with a strong background in either compensation or benefits (and working knowledge of the other)
- Experience scaling total rewards programs at a high-growth SaaS or startup company, ideally through a growth stage comparable to scaling from roughly 1,000 to 3,000+ employees
- End-to-end experience running compensation cycles — job architecture, market pricing, merit/promotion planning, and bonus design
- Experience with equity program design and administration, including cap table fluency (Carta, Shareworks, or similar)
- Strong command of market pricing and benchmarking tools (Radford, Pave, Mercer, or similar)

Tags: People Ops