About Navan

Navan is the modern travel and expense management platform that helps businesses save money, streamline operations, and empower employees to make smarter choices. We combine the best of consumer-grade product design with enterprise-grade infrastructure to deliver a seamless experience for travel, spend, and now—meetings and events.

With our growing global footprint and bold vision to simplify and automate business travel and spend, we’re building the next major category within corporate travel: Meetings & Events (M&E).

The Role

We are seeking an exceptional leader to launch, scale, and own Navan’s Meetings & Events business. This is a high-impact, cross-functional leadership role responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and execution of M&E offerings—spanning product, commercial, and operational pillars.

As the SVP of M&E, you will build a new line of business within Navan’s core travel platform, partnering with Product, Sales, Customer Success, and Operations to create a world-class, tech-enabled M&E solution for our clients.

What You'll Do

• Strategy & Vision: Define and own the global M&E strategy aligned with Navan’s broader travel & expense platform; identify key market segments, product requirements, and competitive differentiation.
• Product Development: Define a clear product vision and strategy and drive the execution of the product roadmap in close collaboration with the product and engineering teams.
• Go-to-Market Leadership: Develop and execute commercial strategies across pricing, positioning, and packaging; partner closely with GTM and marketing to drive demand and revenue.
• Operational Excellence: Build and scale a hybrid service model that combines high-touch concierge support with scalable, tech-driven workflows for a wide range of event formats – from team offsites to large-scale conferences.
• Team Building: Hire, inspire, and lead a high-performing team across product / engineering, operations, and GTM / account management as the M&E business scales.
• Customer Focus: Engage directly with customers to understand their needs, validate product-market fit, inform product roadmap decisions, and ensure adoption and retention.
• Number focus: Establish clear goals, KPIs, and operating cadences to track business performance and drive continuous improvement
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Team up with other Navan team’s such as Travel, Expense, PLG / Growth, Finance, and Legal to and deliver a seamless customer experience while ensuring operational scalability and compliance.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of experience in high-performing organizations, ideally in a tech environment in general management roles
• Proven track record of launching or scaling a business line or product offering from zero to significant revenue in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment
• Strong strategic and commercial acumen with experience in GTM strategy, sales enablement, and partner ecosystem development
• Product-oriented mindset and experience working closely with product and engineering teams to develop tech-enabled solutions
• Customer-centric and hands-on mentality with experience in scaling high-performance operations teams
• Excellent organization, communication, and stakeholder management skills across functions and levels with proven track record of leading large teams around the globe