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# Staff Product Manager at Navan

- **Company:** Navan
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Posted:** 2026-09-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8204362

## Job description

Are you a passionate and strategic product leader with a deep understanding of B2B software and platform services? We are seeking a foundational leader to own and drive the strategy for several critical modules that anchor our global product. You will be responsible for creating a scalable platform that seamlessly integrates with external systems, empowers our customers with valuable data insights, and delivers a truly inclusive experience through localization and accessibility.

This is a high-impact, hands-on role where you will work with global teams across different time zones and cultures, cutting through complexity to bring clarity and direction. If you are passionate about building robust, technical products that form the bedrock of a successful enterprise solution, this is your chance to make a significant impact on our hyper-growth trajectory.

What You’ll Do:

- Lead the Product Strategy and Vision: Own and develop the product strategy and roadmap for platform & core services. These include, and not limited to integrations, data services, identity, admin functionalities.
- Empower Data-Driven Decisions: Spearhead the product strategy for our data services. This involves defining how we collect, organize, and store application data, and then exposing it through valuable, insightful reports and dashboards for customers and internal stakeholders.
- Be a Hands-On Leader: Partner closely with world-class engineers, designers, and data analysts to define, design, build, launch, and measure new products and features. You will be accountable for the outcomes and impact of your modules.
- Communicate with Clarity: Build influence across the organization through powerful storytelling, a deep understanding of data, and logical, concise communication. You will be an expert at cutting through the noise to bring clarity and direction to complex, global initiatives.
- Work Globally: Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams located in different regions and time zones to ensure alignment on product goals and delivery.

What We’re Looking For:

- Experience: You have 8+ years of experience in product management, with a clear understanding of how different products within a portfolio work together to drive business outcomes.
- Technical Acumen: You are a technically-minded product manager with a solid understanding of APIs, data pipelines, backend services, and a track record of working on complex platform products.
- Domain Knowledge: You have experience managing product strategy for B2B software and are comfortable with concepts related to data management, system integrations, and multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
- Exceptional Judgment: You demonstrate excellent judgment in identifying which problems to solve, how to create value, and in designing elegant solutions.
- Clear Communicator: You are proactive, persistent, and creative in confronting challenges. You have a track record of partnering with others to get things done and can engender trust and respect among your colleagues through your communication style.
- Hands-On Mentality: You thrive on an empowered product team and understand the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and delivery. You feel strong accountability for outcomes and understand the role of your team’s outputs in achieving them.
- Global Mindset: You are passionate about building products for a global user base and understand the importance of inclusion and diversity in your team and your product design.

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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