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.
- 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
Sequoia delivers our compensation expertise through right-sized solutions that cater to the unique needs of investor-backed companies of all sizes – from emerging startups to global enterprises.
Advisory Solutions
Outsourcing Solutions
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.
Latest Insights & Resources
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Additional Resources
Reports
2025 Total Compensation & Benefits Benchmark
Webinars
Rethinking Executive Compensation — with Sequoia and Carta
Client Voices
Yext Scales a Unified Global Employee Experience
Events
Ask the Experts: 2026 Employee Cost Containment
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