Vice President, Demand Generation

Location:Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA

Department:Marketing

As the Vice President, Global Demand Generation at Navan, you will be responsible for creating and operating Navan’s demand generation strategy across both Travel and Expense businesses, globally. In addition to owning the demand engine, you’ll work closely across product marketing, creative, sales, partnerships, and product teams to develop and execute strategies and a campaign portfolio that effectively promote Navan’s products and services to our target audience, driving pipeline and revenue growth. As owner of Navan’s demand strategy and plan, you’ll lead and drive accountability across the business to deliver to the plan and optimize the strategy. You’ll build and lead a high-performing team, manage digital channels, oversee field marketing strategies and global events, and collaborate with industry and channel partners to create innovative and effective campaigns.

This role will be based out of our San Francisco, Palo Alto or New York offices. Navan is a hybrid working environment with an in-office requirement of 3x a week.

What You’ll Do:

  • Build Navan’s demand strategy and plan for the core go-to-market across our Travel and Expense businesses globally, efficiently scaling and driving demonstrable revenue growth across new and existing business in Commercial through Enterprise segments.
  • Manage the demand generation budget and performance reporting across a global portfolio of activities.
  • Drive execution of strategies and programs through Marketing and cross-functional collaborators (Sales, SDR, SMB Growth, Account Management, Supplier Partners, Channel Partners, etc.), ensuring metrics-based accountability to the demand plan.
  • Scale inbound demand engine to reach 50% of sourced new revenue, with highly efficient CAC payback. Levers include events, digital demand, account based marketing, and integrated campaigns.
  • Drive the creation and optimization of programmatic customer journeys pre- and post-sales to drive acquisition and retention.
  • Set and track KPIs for demand generation campaigns and report on progress to C-suite of Navan and broader leadership team. Analyze and optimize demand generation portfolio to continually improve results and strategy.
  • Build scalable systems to drive scalable execution against targets/objectives.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Highly seasoned and high performing demand marketing executive with 15+ years of experience building and executing multi-channel go-to-market plans.
  • Has scaled B2B software/SaaS demand engines across 500M+ rev stage in a market moving from early adoption to mainstream maturity.
  • Deep experience engaging across large enterprise and mid-market customers and broad buying organizations globally. Travel and/or Expense industry experience a plus
  • Highly quantitative systems thinker who will identify objectives, design/implement appropriate solutions, and measure & adapt ruthlessly to create scalable demand funnels and programs across regions, segments, and business lines.
  • Excellent cross-functional leader with strong execution bias and direct communication to drive results across a broad set of stakeholders
  • BA/BS degree. MBA is a plus.
  • International experience is preferred but not required.

The posted pay range represents the anticipated low and high end of the compensation for this position and is subject to change based on business need. To determine a successful candidate’s starting pay, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including primary work location, an evaluation of the candidate’s skills and experience, market demands, and internal parity.

For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation. Target incentive compensation for some roles may include a ramping draw period. Compensation is higher for those who exceed targets. Candidates may receive more information from the recruiter.

Pay Range
$202,500$340,000 USD

Navan About Us

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. Valued at $9.2B, Navan is well-positioned for continued growth as it continues its takeover of the travel and expense market.

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 — the latter of which remains a standalone brand.

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. All voices are valued here and you’ll have the resources, tools, and training you’ll need to do the best work of your life.

Our Benefits

Navan provides a comprehensive benefits package tailored to support your well-being and financial security. Our offerings include generous medical plans, dental, and vision benefits with premiums covered by Navan, as well as various insurance options designed to cover each family's needs. We also prioritize your holistic wellness with perks like paid parental and bereavement leave, subsidized commuter benefits, mental health support, connectivity stipends, and even pet insurance.

Workplace Policy

Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that is sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improves company culture and drives business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the US, Germany, France, Spain, and the UK, among others — that feel welcoming and offers perks such as lunches and happy hours to create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. We operate on a hybrid working model, which we define as three days a week in-office. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.

Equal Opportunity

Navan is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions based solely on merit. We provide equal employment opportunity to all applicants and employees without discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We prohibit any such discrimination or harassment. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including hiring.

Accommodations

Navan complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended by the ADA Amendments Act, and all applicable state or local law. Navan will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability in connection with applications for employment as required by law.

If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, you are welcome to email us at talent-accommodations@navan.com.

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