About the Role
Navan's Marketing team is seeking a Creative Director to lead a creative studio, shaping the brand and business impact of all creative assets with greenfield authority. This role requires a leader comfortable with dual audiences, possessing consumer-grade storytelling and the ability to connect with both corporate buyers and end-users.
Responsibilities
- Drive the global creative strategy and brand consistency across all marketing assets, platforms, and physical experiences.
- Oversee and scale the in-house design, copy, video, and animation team.
- Ensure writers and designers understand Navan’s business model, sales cycles, and customer pain points.
- Operationalize AI tools to automate ideation, rapid prototyping, mood boarding, and asset generation.
- Partner with Demand Generation, Sales, and regional teams to translate complex functionality into persona-centric campaigns.
Requirements
- 10+ years of creative leadership with a proven track record of building and mentoring high-performing design/creative teams.
- Experience scaling creative operations through significant growth inflections.
- Experience leading multi-channel, integrated campaigns for global brands.
- Ability to thrive in an environment of candor and assertive leadership.
- Ability to provide direct, objective feedback and expect the same from peers and team.
- Ability to fiercely defend the best creative concept while having the humility and speed to pivot when needed.
- Experience running creative inside design-forward travel/hospitality brands, category-norm-breaking B2B SaaS spaces, or consumer lifestyle brands with a distinct B2B reach.
Skills
- Creative strategy
- Brand consistency
- Team leadership
- AI tool implementation
- Generative AI
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Storytelling
- Campaign development
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $143,100—$318,000 USD
About the Company
- Navan's mission is to power the in-person connections that move people, ideas, and businesses forward.
- A post-IPO company with real momentum and an internal culture that always asks 'Can we go bigger?' rather than one that hedges.
- Offers travel as a creative canvas with rich, emotional visual territory.
- Has an execution-strong, capable team that is hungry to be pushed, elevated, and expanded.
