Creative Director

About the role

The Creative Director at Navan will lead a high-output creative studio that shapes the brand and business impact of every creative asset. This role requires someone comfortable operating in a dual-audience world, balancing the prestige of a world-class brand with the relentless speed of a social-first newsroom.

Responsibilities

• Own the Creative Vision: Drive the global creative strategy and brand consistency across all marketing assets, platforms, and physical experiences.
• Lead a High-Output Engine: Oversee and scale the in-house design, copy, video, and animation team.
• Integrate Creative into the Business: Help writers and designers deeply understand Navan's business model, sales cycles, and customer pain points.
• Pioneer AI-Driven Efficiency: Act as a champion for generative innovation. Operationalize AI tools to automate ideation, rapid prototyping, mood boarding, and asset generation.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Act as a strategic peer to Demand Generation, Sales, and regional teams to translate complex functionality into powerful, persona-centric campaigns.

Requirements

Seniority & Growth Experience: 10+ years of creative leadership with a proven track record of building and mentoring high-performing design/creative teams. You have scaled creative operations through significant growth inflections (e.g., Series C+, rapid headcount expansions, or post-IPO environments).

The "Scrappy-Scale" Paradox: Big-brand pedigree leading multi-channel, integrated campaigns for global brands, paired with an infrastructure-agnostic mindset. You don't need a massive agency bench to scale; your formative years were spent in fast-paced environments like newsrooms, agencies, or social-first shops.

Transparent Culture: You thrive in an environment of candor and assertive leadership. You provide direct, objective feedback and expect the same from your peers and team.

Conviction + Flexibility: You hold a "strong opinion, loosely held". You will fiercely defend the best creative concept, but you possess the humility and speed to pivot instantly when stakeholder needs or business data dictate a new direction.

Qualifications

Target Industry Background: Ideally, you have run creative inside design-forward travel/hospitality brands (e.g., Airbnb, Away, Expedia), category-norm-breaking B2B SaaS spaces (e.g., Stripe, Figma, Brex), or consumer lifestyle brands with a distinct B2B reach (e.g., Squarespace, Notion).

Skills

Strong leadership and management skills, ability to work cross-functionally, and a deep understanding of branding and creative strategy.

Benefits

Post-IPO company with real momentum and an internal culture that always asks "Can we go bigger?" rather than one that hedges.

Travel as a creative canvas: rich, emotional visual territory that most B2B corporate creative functions never get access to.

An execution-strong, capable team that is hungry to be pushed, elevated, and expanded.

Pay

$143,100 USD - $318,000 USD