About the company
Navan (formerly TripActions) is a company that provides corporate travel and expense management solutions. (Note: The job posting is from TripActions, but the company is now known as Navan.)
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the enterprise data, AI data readiness, and analytics strategy aligned with business objectives.
- Champion a data-driven culture across departments by elevating data literacy and self-service analytics.
- Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams of data engineers, data scientists, and analysts.
- Drive the AI data strategy, ensuring data is curated, labeled, and optimized for ML/AI model development and deployment.
- Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models, predictive analytics, and feature store infrastructure.
- Collaborate with business partners to identify high-impact AI/ML opportunities that drive strategic value.
- Oversee modern data engineering, architectural design, and reliable ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
- Architect scalable data warehouses, data lakes, and modern data stack operations (MLOps).
- Establish governance policies to ensure high data quality, security, and global regulatory compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA).
- Deliver key executive dashboards, visualizations, and A/B testing frameworks to measure operational KPIs.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across data engineering, analytics, and data science.
- Proven track record of managing data engineering and ML teams while fostering a data-driven organizational culture.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Python, SQL, modern ETL tools, cloud data warehouses, and major ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).
- Deep expertise in pipeline design, streaming data architectures, MLOps, and feature store management.
- Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field.
- Excellent capability to translate complex technical concepts into clear strategic insights for non-technical stakeholders.
Conditions
- Pay Range: $194,400 — $432,000 USD
- 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.
- For roles with on-target-earnings (OTE), the pay range includes both base salary and target incentive compensation.