Navan is looking for a Chief of Staff to the CFO. This role will work in close collaboration with the company’s leadership team to drive strategic initiatives across the finance and business teams and ensure seamless executive operations.
What You’ll Do:
- Act as a trusted advisor to the CFO, providing strategic counsel and support on critical finance & business decisions
- Manage the CFO's office, including prioritizing topics, preparing briefing materials, and coordinating high-level meetings
- Manage weekly executive staff meetings including, but not limited to, setting the agenda, providing insights and analysis to inform strategic conversations and tracking follow through to increase accountability
- Support key strategic initiatives including board materials, investor presentations, town hall presentations, leadership meetings, and annual planning
- Drive best practices, communication, and coordination between our executives to enable effective collaboration across the organization
- Work cross-functionally with departmental leaders and stakeholders to kick-off, actionize, and provide support across key company initiatives
- Oversee our goal-setting process, working with our management team to set, align and track company goals
- Onboard key company hires (e.g., new VPs, Board members), ensuring that they have the context and support needed to successfully ramp up and perform their duties
What We’re Looking For:
- Previous experience in Chief of Staff roles, or Finance roles working closely with senior management
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and comfortable interacting with senior leaders, external partners, and staff at all levels
- Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and project management skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead a large portfolio of strategic initiatives and projects in a cross-functional environment on tight deadlines
- Thrives in ambiguous situations and has a bias for action, high emotional intelligence
- Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and exercise sound judgment
The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.
For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.
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Navan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay aligns with mid‑ to upper‑market in core engineering and GTM roles, with competitive cash, equity, and bonus plans. Defined pay bands and commission tiers provide clarity on how earnings are structured.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible/unlimited PTO is part of the package alongside paid parental leave durations for birthing and non‑birthing parents. Time‑off policies are positioned as broad and supportive across the company.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Travel‑centric perks (IATAN access and discounted personal travel) combine with connectivity/home‑office stipends, commuter benefits, in‑office meals/snacks, and pet insurance. Access to Headspace supports mental‑health resources.
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What We Do
Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the leading all-in-one business travel, payments, and expense management platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.
Why Work With Us
At Navan, we’re never satisfied with the status quo, and we know breakthrough ideas come from diverse perspectives. We are committed to cultivating a workplace that reflects the diversity of the customers we serve while fostering leadership and innovation.
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In-person connections is the foundation of Navan, the connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and what we can achieve together. We operate on a hybrid working model, which we define as four days a week in-office.
