Director, Compensation in Winnipeg

We're transforming the grocery industry at Instacart, where 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. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.

Instacart is a Flex First team. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.

We're hiring a Director of Compensation to own our broad-based comp strategy end-to-end. This is a senior people leadership role reporting to the Head of Total Rewards. You’ll drive the programs, frameworks, and cross-functional partnerships that keep our pay competitive and fair as we grow into new markets. This role sits at the intersection of people strategy and business partnership, and the person who fills it will have a direct line of sight to how we attract, retain, and motivate the talent that powers Instacart's growth.

What you'll cook up in your first year:

• Our annual and mid-year comp cycles run with greater precision and speed.
• You own the design and delivery end-to-end and have raised the quality bar even as scope and complexity have grown.
• Work closely with HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, and senior business leaders to solve hard problems and give them recommendations they can act on.
• You'll weigh in on executive offers, retention decisions, org changes, pay equity questions, and stand behind difficult calls in gray areas.
• Instacart's equity compensation approach is competitive and forward-looking.
• You lead a high-performing team of compensation business partners, setting clear direction, high standards, and cultivating an environment where people do their best work.
• You carry individual contributor responsibilities as a compensation business partner to help you stay close to evolving business needs.
• Lead our international expansion compensation work, building the frameworks, market data, and guidance needed to pay people competitively and compliantly as we expand into new countries.

The secret ingredients we're looking for:

• Must-have pantry staples (Minimum Qualifications):
• 10+ 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.
• Deep expertise in equity compensation design and strategy.
• Experience building compensation programs at scale, including job architecture, market pricing, performance cycles, and pay-for-performance frameworks.
• Expertise in spreadsheet work (gSheets and Excel).