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.
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Skills Required
- 12+ years of software engineering experience
- 4+ years in senior engineering leadership roles managing managers, such as Engineering Managers or Directors
- Proven experience developing user-facing AI products
- Experience with conversational LLMs and scalable chatbot architectures
- End-to-end understanding across backend, AI, mobile, data, and the business funnel
- Track record of shipping high-impact products rapidly in ambiguous, fast-paced environments
- Executive presence and ability to communicate complex technical visions to nontechnical executives
- Cross-functional stakeholder influence and partnership-building
- High emotional intelligence, empathy, and ability to build psychological safety
- Willingness to work at least 3 days per week from the Tel Aviv office, potentially increasing to 4–5 days
What the Team is Saying
Navan Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents are highlighted, with mental health resources such as Headspace included. This breadth of core health benefits signals strong baseline coverage.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible vacation in the U.S., a company-wide year-end quiet week, and a U.K. policy listing five weeks of PTO point to generous time-away options. These elements indicate meaningful support for rest and recharge across regions.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is specified as 16 weeks for the birthing parent and 10 weeks for the non-birthing parent. Clear, above-basic leave durations suggest solid family support.
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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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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
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.
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