As the Head of Creative for Navan AI, you will spearhead the creation of a creative studio from the ground up. You’ll be responsible for architecting the studio’s vision, team, and operating frameworks, delivering innovative, high-impact assets for performance marketing, organic social, and content aimed at building community and delighting end-users and prosumers.
You’ll set the creative bar, drive execution across all content types, and cultivate a studio culture that champions bold ideas, rapid iteration, and measurable results. If you thrive at the intersection of creative leadership, operational excellence, and AI-powered storytelling, this is the role for you.
What You’ll Do
- Studio Founding & Leadership: Build, recruit, and mentor a best-in-class creative team; establish efficient workflows, processes, and standards for an agile, high-volume in-house studio serving multiple content channels.
- Creative Direction: Lead the end-to-end creation of performance marketing assets, organic social content, and community-driven creative, ensuring every piece feels differentiated and user-obsessed.
- AI Integration & Innovation: Champion new creative approaches leveraging AI tools for ideation, production, personalization, and measurement. Push boundaries of what’s possible in digital content creation.
- Content Strategy & Execution: Partner closely with growth, brand, product, and community leads to develop content strategies that drive measurable user activation, engagement, and advocacy.
- Performance Mindset: Design and deliver data-informed creative that’s relentlessly optimized for user response, across paid and organic channels.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Operate as a trusted partner to stakeholders in product, marketing, community, and data,ensuring creative output ladders up to key business priorities.
- Studio Culture Champion: Cultivate an environment of innovation, continuous learning, and creative experimentation to attract and retain world-class creative talent.
What We’re Looking For
- 7+ years in a creative leadership role, preferably in a fast-growing tech, digital agency, or AI-focused organization, with at least 3 years managing or building creative teams.
- Proven experience building, scaling, and optimizing in-house creative studios or content teams from the ground up.
- Deep portfolio of work across performance marketing, social, and community content, with examples of measurable business impact at scale.
- Hands-on expertise using AI and digital tools in creative workflows, from ideation to production and optimization.
- Demonstrated ability to blend creative vision with operational rigor; excels at managing multiple projects, timelines, and stakeholders.
- Exceptional leadership, mentorship, and communication skills; able to inspire creatives and influence cross-functionally.
- Digital-first mindset and up-to-date knowledge of creator economy, prosumer trends, and emerging technology.
- High comfort working in dynamic, ambiguous environments and shaping new systems/processes.
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What We Do
Navan is the leading all-in-one business travel and expense management solution 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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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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