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Hands-on performance marketing role responsible for planning, launching, and optimizing paid media and ABM campaigns across social, video, programmatic, and emerging channels. The role manages budgets, vendors, creative testing, audience activation, measurement, and campaign optimization to build awareness, generate demand, engage buying groups, and increase pipeline. It partners closely with Creative, Content, Marketing Operations, Analytics, Sales, and Customer Marketing.

Lead strategic and operational improvements across global travel operations and service teams. Partner with product, engineering, and leadership to prioritize support-product enhancements, improve agent tooling, drive contact deflection, and deliver customer experience improvements. Manage cross-functional programs including acquisitions, supply processes, third-party support, change management, and process optimization. Use analytics to assess impact, establish operating processes, and support global execution across teams and regions.

Leads Navan’s pre-sales scoping operation for enterprise deals, aligning service tiers, pricing, operational capabilities, and AI-assisted support offerings. Partners with Sales, Product, Pricing, Marketing, and Global Operations to simplify service packages, enforce scoping guardrails, mitigate operational risks, and protect margins. Leads the GOS Sales Squad during late-stage sales cycles, develops commercial collateral, supports executive customer discussions, and governs metrics related to deal quality, compliance, and pipeline velocity.

Leads Navan’s North America Travel Services organization, overseeing customer support operations, service quality, workforce planning, cost efficiency, and team development. Drives scalable operating models, operational transformation, AI and automation adoption, technology partnerships, and data-informed improvements. Partners cross-functionally to enhance enterprise traveler experiences, manage vendors, and ensure operational readiness during travel disruptions. Requires extensive senior leadership experience in large-scale contact center or service operations, preferably within corporate travel, airlines, travel management, or travel technology.

Leads multiple global travel support teams operating 24/7. Responsibilities include developing standardized processes, improving operational scale, managing escalations, monitoring service levels and customer satisfaction, conducting root-cause analysis, coaching managers, supporting hiring and training, and reporting performance. The role requires contact-center leadership, travel industry systems experience, customer-service expertise, analytical problem solving, and flexibility for nontraditional shifts and potential weekend on-call coverage.

Own and grow airline partnerships across the Americas, especially South America. Lead commercial negotiations, renew agreements, manage incentives and forecasts, analyze deal economics, and identify revenue opportunities. Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to improve airline content, pricing, and servicing. Maintain industry relationships, communicate airline updates, resolve performance issues, and provide strategic recommendations to leadership.

Provides high-touch business travel consulting and reservation services across air, rail, car rental, hotel, ferry, black car, and charter bookings. Manages client portfolios, applies travel policies, identifies savings, supports online and offline booking tools, maintains service-level agreements, and builds lasting client relationships. The role requires strong business travel knowledge, GDS expertise, exceptional communication, attention to detail, and proficiency with Navan and R&M technology.

Supports Account Managers and B2B travel and expense customers by resolving product configuration, integration, payment, policy, and platform issues. Communicates with program administrators, handles escalations, coordinates cross-functional solutions, drives adoption and retention, tracks customer KPIs, provides product feedback, and documents scalable processes.

Partners with enterprise Account Executives and sales leaders to qualify and close complex travel technology deals. Demonstrates Navan’s platform, presents value propositions to travel managers, conducts strategy sessions, scopes solutions, runs proof-of-concepts and workshops, produces business value assessments, and supports pipeline progression. The role also enables Account Executives, provides competitive insights, and shares feedback with product and operations teams while contributing to sales quota attainment.

Own strategic relationships with complex enterprise clients, serving as a trusted executive advisor and voice of the customer. Lead migrations from legacy travel-management technology to Navan, including scoping, implementation, go-live, and hypercare. Drive adoption, retention, compliance, training, health checks, business reviews, risk mitigation, and churn prevention. Partner with Product, Engineering, and Sales on feedback, enhancement requests, and escalations while managing stakeholder alignment and change resistance.