A need keeps coming up for my leadership coaching clients and contacts who are considering new roles, and I'm not sure where to direct them. They want someone who they can pay for a couple hours of time to help them - understand the comp landscape, especially VP-ish levels at pre-IPO companies, mostly headquartered here in the Bay Area - think through how to talk about comp in final negotiations - evaluate offers, especially the equity part of the offers - and sometimes, how to work with recruiters and retained search in a savvy way, and/or how to navigate a transition in the everyone-knows-everyone VC-backed world. Who do you know who might do this work?
That's a great question. I hope I understood it properly.
In terms of the comp landscape, tools like glassdoor.com are great for finding market value salaries for specific titles/locations. No need to hire someone there.
For the rest, it seems like the expertise would be spread between an HR exec, or a CEO. I'd recommend reaching out to retired CEOs who are in mentorship programs at local incubators. They've been there and done that, so they know what goes into negotiating and retaining folks. They're used to walking through these types of challenges with startups.
If this is a one-time thing, I'd be happy to hop on a call to talk about these challenges as well.
Answered 10 years ago
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