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# Director, Engineering at Navan

- **Company:** Navan
- **Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8103243

## Job description

Welcome to Navan Edge: a highly disruptive, high-velocity "startup within a startup" rewriting the rules of corporate travel. Edge is an AI-powered personal assistant and concierge service built exclusively for the frequent business traveler. We are fusing always-on conversational AI, capable of learning preferences, executing complex bookings, and stacking high-value rewards like hotel loyalty and credit card multipliers, with a seamless handoff to a 24/7 VIP human concierge. We are looking for a visionary, execution-obsessed Director of Engineering to take the helm. This is your opportunity to lead the end-to-end engineering of a bleeding-edge, user-facing AI product on a global scale.

## What You’ll Do

- Lead the Trajectory from Ground Zero to Global Scale: You will start with a lean, highly focused scope to deeply internalize our business, product, and operational DNA. From there, your growth is driven by your impact. As you prove your success, you will have the potential to scale your scope across a multi-disciplinary organization—with opportunities to also lead data science, model training, mobile, and data domains, while developing a top-tier team of EMs to help you lead your organization.
- Own Your Domain End-to-End: You will have absolute E2E ownership over your specific product area and technical domains within Navan Edge. You will be directly accountable for driving critical business metrics like booking volume, conversion rates, and system latency, while maintaining a strategic eye on optimizing our AI inference costs.
- Provide Hands-On AI Technical Leadership: Guide the architectural vision and execution of our modern AI stack. You will drive the implementation of LangChain, Nest.js, Vector DBs, and advanced RAG architectures, leveraging open-source LLMs and fine-tuning models to deliver an unmatched user experience.
- Drive Cross-Functional Execution: Act as the technical engine collaborating seamlessly across Product, Marketing, and Operations. You will partner with and present to senior Navan executives, ensuring technical roadmaps aggressively align with our disruptive business objectives.
- Build a World-Class Culture: Act as a talent magnet. You will recruit, mentor, and retain top-tier engineering and AI talent, fostering a culture of high velocity, intense empathy, and unyielding technical excellence.

## What We’re Looking For

- Seasoned Leadership: 12+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 4+ years in senior leadership roles managing managers (Engineering Managers/Directors).
- Deep AI & LLM Expertise: Proven, battle-tested experience owning the development of user-facing AI products, conversational LLMs, and highly scalable chatbot architectures. You know what it takes to put AI directly into the hands of demanding consumers.
- End-to-End Ownership Mindset: You think holistically across the entire tech stack (Backend, AI, Mobile, Data) and the business funnel. You care as much about booking conversions and user experience as you do about system architecture.
- Execution Excellence: You thrive in highly ambiguous, fast-paced environments. You have a track record of cutting through noise, shipping high-impact products rapidly, and iterating based on real-world usage.
- Executive Presence & Stakeholder Influence: You can command a room. You possess the ability to articulate complex technical visions to non-technical executives and build deep partnerships across all business units.
- Empathy & EQ: You lead with high emotional intelligence, building psychological safety and trust while maintaining a relentlessly high bar for performance.
- TLV Hybrid Commitment: Willingness to work strictly 3 days a week from our vibrant Tel Aviv (TLV) office, scaling to 4-5 days depending on meeting schedules, critical launches, and business needs.

Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.

Human oversight: Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.

- Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.

Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.

## About Navan

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Navan is the leading all-in-one, AI-powered business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes corporate travel effortless for frequent travelers while giving finance teams full control.
- **Entity Type**: Public (ticker: **NAVN**, listed on Nasdaq Global Select Market in October 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Corporate travel management, expense management, travel technology, payments.
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to enterprise companies; also SMBs.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make travel easy for every traveler by being the best travel agency on the planet."

## Products & Services
- **Navan Travel**: AI-powered booking platform for flights, hotels, and ground transportation with extensive inventory access (including NDC content from 17+ airlines).
- **Navan Expense**: Automated expense management that categorizes and reconciles receipts, with real-time policy enforcement and integration with ERPs.
- **Navan Edge**: AI travel assistant (chat-based) that handles bookings and provides 24/7 human support.
- **Navan Rewards**: Incentive program that rewards employees for booking below budget.
- **Navan Connect (BYOC)**: Card-link technology that connects corporate cards from 250+ banks, enabling unified spend visibility.
- **Navan Corporate Cards**: Physical and virtual cards for payments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available in search results (post-IPO, real-time market cap available on exchanges).
- **Key Metric**: **Total Headcount** ~3,300 employees (as of 2026); **Number of customers** – thousands, including major enterprises like Heineken, Unilever, Wayfair, and Zoom.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not listed in provided sources, but strategic partners include Amadeus (dual-GDS model) and major airlines via NDC.
- **Growth Signals**: Went public in October 2025; expanded globally through acquisitions of Comtravo (Germany), Resia (France), Tripeur (India), and Reed & MacKay (Europe); now operates 50 offices worldwide; first TMC to integrate AI across the entire platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-first platform**: First travel management company to embed AI across search, booking, expense reconciliation, and customer service.
- **All-in-one T&E**: Combines travel, expense, and payments in a single system, eliminating the need for multiple vendors.
- **Dual-GDS model**: Integrated with both Sabre and Amadeus, providing global coverage and competitive pricing.
- **NDC leader**: Offers access to 17 airlines’ New Distribution Capability content for better fares and inventory.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue leading in AI-powered travel and expense innovation.
- Expand corporate card and payments ecosystem (Navan Connect, external card linking).
- Deepen enterprise capabilities and global footprint (targeting mid-market and large multinationals).
- Drive user adoption through employee rewards and seamless mobile experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Work model**: Hybrid – 4 days per week in office (Palo Alto HQ and other global offices). Strong emphasis on in-person collaboration.
- **Culture**: Meritocratic, high-ownership, “high-talent density” environment. Values include extreme ownership, bias to action, “AI-first mindset”, and “seriously fun”.
- **Perks & Benefits**:
  - Flexible vacation (take time off as needed, manager coordination).
  - Paid parental leave (16 weeks birthing parent, 10 weeks non-birthing).
  - 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discount.
  - Medical, dental, vision, pet insurance.
  - Commuter benefits, in-office snacks and lunches, dog-friendly offices.
  - Headspace mental health subscription.
  - Navan personal travel discounts (employee leisure bookings at corporate rates).
  - Connectivity allowance (bi-weekly stipend for remote work).
- **Growth opportunities**: Rapidly scaling public company; teams across engineering, product, data science, travel operations, and R&D.

## Sources
1. [navan.com](https://navan.com/ – Product overview, platform details)
2. [navan.com/about](https://navan.com/about – Company history, mission, timeline, IPO)
3. [navan.com/careers](https://navan.com/careers – Culture, values, benefits, work model)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/navan – Headcount, offices, hybrid policy, perks)

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