---
title: 'Event Manager at Navan'
canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/event-manager-navan-austin-yxd382nzm19w'
type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-10-13'
---

# Event Manager at Navan

- **Company:** Navan
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8246140

## Job description

## About the Role

As an Event Manager on the Navan Events team, you will plan, coordinate, and execute a diverse portfolio of client events—delivering world-class service, managing budgets with precision, and leveraging Navan's cutting-edge travel and event technology to scale operations. In this role, you will empower organizations to foster thriving cultures through expertly curated in-person experiences while driving decisions that support Navan’s revenue goals and product innovation.

## What You’ll Do

- End-to-End Execution: Design, plan, and execute 8–12 client events simultaneously, managing timelines, vendor contracts, and logistics.
- Strategic Advisory: Educate clients on industry best practices, offsite strategies, and cost-effective event design while building strong client relationships to drive account retention and repeat business.
- Budget & Financial Oversight: Manage event budgets to maximize impact and protect gross margins while supporting Navan’s net revenue goals and preferred vendor network.
- Product Collaboration: Utilize Navan’s proprietary platform daily, delivering actionable UX and feature feedback to internal Product and Engineering teams to optimize our event management software.
- Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Source, negotiate, and maintain relationships with top-tier venues and suppliers to secure competitive rates and exceptional service.
- Client Satisfaction: Consistently meet and exceed NPS and CSAT targets through exceptional execution.
- 30-60-90 Day Success Roadmap
- Within 30 Days: Complete onboarding on Navan’s platform and SOPs; shadow senior planners on active accounts; begin managing initial events with Team Lead support; establish cross-functional relationships with Sourcing, Product, and Customer Success.
- Within 60 Days: Independently manage a full pipeline of events end-to-end; consistently meet CSAT targets; provide direct feedback to the Product team to optimize Navan’s event management software. Within 90 Days: Act as a strategic advisor to key clients; consistently hit net revenue and margin targets; drive process improvements that enable team scalability; achieve high client retention through post-event follow-up.

## What We’re Looking For

- 5+ years of end-to-end event management experience, including sourcing, budget management, vendor negotiations, and onsite execution.
- Strong project management skills with a proven track record of handling high-volume event portfolios in fast-paced environments.
- High executive presence with experience presenting directly to C-suite and senior leaders.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills with a creative, client-first mindset.
- Prior hospitality or corporate travel industry experience preferred.
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% for onsite event execution, team syncs, and client meetings.

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)

## Other roles at Navan

- [Werkstudent:in, Sales](https://feeny.ai/job/werkstudent-in-sales-navan-berlin-s320066a5fee) — Berlin, Germany
- [Working Student - Sales Development](https://feeny.ai/job/working-student-sales-development-navan-berlin-twcfn0kaqe2f) — Berlin, Germany
- [Enterprise Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/enterprise-account-executive-navan-amsterdam-whkd3ts08b9g) — Amsterdam, Netherlands
- [Director, Travel Services](https://feeny.ai/job/director-travel-services-navan-delhi-09ht1mcpvs02) — Delhi, India
- [Director, Travel Services](https://feeny.ai/job/director-travel-services-navan-bengaluru-nvg4myahem14) — Bengaluru, India
- [Senior  Security Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-security-engineer-navan-tel-aviv-kpm0revgeaz4) — Tel Aviv, Israel
- [Senior Deal Desk Analyst](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-deal-desk-analyst-navan-austin-dm9ej4d6jxyz) — Austin, TX
- [Deal Strategy Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/deal-strategy-manager-navan-austin-b7db8099p09a) — Austin, TX
- [Deal Strategy Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/deal-strategy-manager-navan-boston-sng0tcs2h1w6) — Boston, MA / New York, NY / Palo Alto CA OR San Francisco, CA
- [Commercial Account Executive](https://feeny.ai/job/commercial-account-executive-navan-boston-93tyy8z7ydg3) — Boston, MA