Executive Compensation
Strategically compensate stakeholders to drive performance
Sequoia guides an approach to executive compensation that balances investor expectations with your ability to attract and motivate leaders who drive growth, talent retention, and longterm enterprise value.
A clear path to navigating executive pay
Sequoia compensation experts partner with your leadership and board to evaluate every aspect of executive pay—cash, equity, and incentives—against market benchmarks and your company’s goals.Â
- Stay competitive and boost shareholder confidence with real-time market perspective backed by built-in governance.
- Protect runway while keeping top leaders motivated by balancing equity burn with retention needs.
- Support comp committees with independent insights that enable confident, defensible board-level decisions.
- Tap into exclusive access to Carta data for clarity on private market trends with insights only from Sequoia.
A comp strategy that balances rigor and retention
Sequoia’s executive compensation capabilities blend financial discipline, data-driven benchmarking, and hands-on board support to help you align pay with your growth strategy.
Executive Compensation Benchmarking
- Custom peer group analysis
- Bespoke benchmarking by executive
- Carta-powered equity comparisons
- Market-specific pay mix insights
Executive Equity
- Grant planning and refresh design
- Equity structuring for retention
- Burn rate and runway impact review
- Award cadence aligned to company goals
Executive Cash & Incentives
- Base salary competitiveness benchmarks
- Bonus plan design and board validation
- Adjustments for affordability
- Incentives linked to performance
Strategic Board Support
- Comp committee attendance
- Transparent reporting on comp and equity spend
- Headcount, runway, and dilution modeling
- Data-driven recommendations
Flexible solutions for smarter compensation strategies
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Platform Solutions
Impacting client success,
from emerging startup to household name
Explore how forward-thinking companies partner with Sequoia to achieve their business goals — from optimizing comp packages, to streamlining benefits administration, to elevating employee experiences.
