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We’re looking for a Director of Product Design to join our Travel Design team in Tel Aviv. In this role, you’ll lead a talented design team and strengthen our Tel Aviv Design Studio by fostering collaboration among designers who support distributed teams. Success in this position hinges on your ability to influence cross-functional decisions within complex environments, beyond your direct reports. This role requires a seasoned expert who can balance short-term wins with long-term strategic thinking, adapting to the various styles and cadences of matrixed teams. If you’re known in your organization as a power connector and go-to person for design feedback, this might be the role for you.
What You'll Do:
- Drive Design Standards: Set and champion design standards across a matrixed organization. Your expertise will guide design decisions, earning you the reputation as a trusted source of feedback across teams.
- Team Leadership: Directly manage a small team of designers focused on enterprise product design, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment. Additionally, you will mentor and influence other designers based in EMEA.
- Product Expertise: Develop a deep understanding of our products, including their underlying systems and complexities. This expertise will allow you to make informed design decisions and clearly communicate context to cross-functional teams.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with a diverse range of teams across different styles and operating cadences. Use your understanding of these variations to facilitate productive partnerships that accelerate development while ensuring long-term scalability.
- Strategic Decision-Making: Maintain a balance between short-term project needs and long-term design goals, avoiding compromises that could hinder future progress.
What We're Looking For:
- 10+ years experience in a senior design leadership role, ideally within a matrixed or highly cross-functional organization.
- Cross-functional aptitude–you are skilled in working with varied teams and adjusting to their unique styles, with a track record of guiding diverse groups toward shared design goals, ideally in the context of a consumer, e-commerce, or B2C product.
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates strong strategic thinking as well as a deep commitment to details, excellence, and craft.
- Strong people management skills, with a history of developing and leading high-performing design teams.
- A belief that fast cycles of soliciting feedback is the way to continually raise the quality of your work and that excellence is found in the details. You’re excited to drive impact by balancing short term wins with long-term strategy, preventing immediate projects from compromising future success.
- Strong communication skills. You know that behind every design decision is a story to be told. Yes, we use Slack, but we also Zoom often–including with our colleagues in San Francisco.
- Enthusiasm and a growth mindset! Our team is composed of smart, curious, fun individuals who dive headfirst into the problems at hand and share a genuine enthusiasm for building the next generation travel platform.
- An added background in travel–or a deep interest in travel–is a significant plus!
What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Navan is the all-in-one super app that makes travel and expense easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there. Say goodbye to spending hours on the phone trying to change your flight or saving stacks of receipts to manually input expenses. From EAs and finance teams to travel managers and employees, Navan empowers people to focus on the things that matter most to them — all while providing companies with real-time visibility, savings, and control.
Navan’s investors include visionaries like Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Ventures, Greenoaks, Zeev Ventures, and entrepreneurs Lee Fixel, Adam Bain, and Elad Gil. In Oct 2022, Navan announced its Series G upround at a post-money valuation of $9.2B to help accelerate future growth plans.
In April 2023, Navan expanded in the Indian market with the acquisition of Tripeur, a modern, people-centric corporate travel and expense management company. The group’s fifth acquisition in under two years, Tripeur joined the Navan Group alongside Spanish meetings and events specialists, Atlanta Events & Corporate Travel Consultants; Berlin-based modern travel management company, Comtravo; leading Scandinavian travel agency Resia AB; and London-based high-touch TMC, Reed & Mackay.
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 three days a week in-office.
