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About this Executive Assistant (Marketing) role at Navan

Navan · Onsite · Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA

We are seeking a high-caliber, experienced Executive Assistant to act as a strategic partner to our Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Reporting directly to the CMO, you will be the backbone of our Marketing organization, ensuring our executive leadership functions at peak efficiency. 

This is not a passive, gatekeeping role. We need a high-energy, exceptionally organized "doer" who thrives in a fast-paced environment and possesses a relentless drive to execute. You are someone who anticipates needs before they arise, brings order to chaos, and takes immense pride in flawless execution and a sharp attention to detail. If you are a tech-forward administrative professional who moves fast, communicates clearly, and wants to actively shape our team culture, we want you on board. 

What You’ll Do

Executive Partnership & High-Velocity Support 

  • Advanced Calendar & Logistics Management: Seamlessly manage complex, rapidly shifting calendars for the CMO (with fluidity to help others on her team). Prioritize critical meetings, resolve conflicts proactively, and ensure daily schedules are optimized and organized for maximum productivity. 
  • Rapid Response Inbox Management: Serve as the strategic first line of defense for executive communications. Monitor inboxes, flag urgent matters, draft high-quality responses, and ensure no critical thread goes unanswered. 
  • Meeting Preparation & Context: Ensure executives are meticulously prepared for every engagement. You will gather briefing materials, track external follow-ups, and ensure leadership has the exact context needed ahead of time.

Marketing Team Operations 

  • All-Hands, Offsites & Event Logistics: Take full ownership of the planning and execution of all marketing offsites, company culture events, and major team gatherings. Own everything from venue sourcing and contract negotiation to logistics, catering (specifically optimizing Monday/start-of-week setups), and seamless on-site coordination. 
  • Internal Meeting & Planning Support: Provide high-touch logistical support for internal team offsites, strategic planning sessions, and both complex virtual and high-stakes in-person meetings. 
  • External Relations & Vendor Management: Proactively own and manage high-value external communication flows. Act as the primary interface for external partners and vendors, ensuring hyper-responsive, professional communication. 
  • Purchase Orders & Legal Routing: Fast-track team execution by routing vendor contracts, statements of work (SOWs), and invoices through internal legal and finance approval channels with sharp attention to detail. 
  • Marketing Swag & Asset Management: Maintain flawless oversight of inventory levels for marketing collateral, event banners, and promotional merchandise; proactively initiate reorders before stocks run low. 
  • Shipment Tracking & Logistics: Coordinate the precision inbound and outbound logistics of event materials and swag to various field locations, ensuring guaranteed on-time delivery and tight return tracking. 
  • Culture & Team Vibe: Act as a cultural pillar for the organization, helping to drive engagement, celebrate wins, and maintain a high-performing, connected team environment. 

What We're Looking For

  • Hyper-Organized with Elite Attention to Detail: You don’t just manage a to-do list; you master it. You have a passion for structure, an eye for the smallest details, and a standard of excellence where nothing slips through the cracks. 
  • Driven & Highly Responsive: You move with a sense of urgency. You are quick on your feet, highly responsive over Slack and email (sometimes text), and motivated by a fast-paced environment. 
  • A Culture Champion: You possess high emotional intelligence (EQ) and positive energy. You care about team dynamics and actively work to build a welcoming, inclusive, and vibrant workplace culture. 
  • Tech-Forward & Adaptable: You are a power user of Google Workspace and Slack, and you actively embrace AI tools and modern software to make workflows faster and smarter. 
  • Proactive Problem Solver: You don't wait for direction when a challenge arises. You troubleshoot independently, present solutions rather than just problems, and maintain strict confidentiality at all times. 
  • Local & Mobile: You are based in the Bay Area, able to work reliably out of our San Francisco office, and flexible enough to travel to Palo Alto as needed for key meetings. Also able to travel for offsites or other events when needed.
  • 4–7+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, Operations Coordinator, or similar role, preferably in a fast-growing environment. 
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to interface confidently with internal leadership and external partners. 
  • Master-level proficiency with Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Slides, Sheets) and Slack. 
  • Proven track record of managing event logistics, offsites, and basic budget/expense tracking with high accuracy. 
  • Valid driver’s license or reliable transportation for seamless travel between SF and Palo Alto offices. 
  • Valid passport for international travel when needed.

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
$28$63 USD
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About Navan

ABOUT TRIPACTIONS

TripActions is the fastest-growing corporate travel platform disrupting a $1.5T industry and shaping the future of business travel.

TripActions is a story of inspiration born of frustration. Road warriors and co-founders Ariel Cohen and Ilan Twig believed that companies deserved a travel solution that takes the pain out of work trips –– so that their travelers can focus on being productive and meeting in-person, not wasting valuable time booking travel. So in 2015, they created TripActions. Since then, we’ve been a mission to power the face-to-face, in-person connections that move people, ideas and businesses forward.

TripActions’ platform offers a vast selection of inventory that travelers can choose from, a personalized, intuitive user interface driven by machine learning, and 24/7 proactive real human, customer support. Companies enjoy complete travel program visibility, over 30% cost savings on average and seamless integrations with their HR and expense systems.

Globally, TripActions has grown to over 600 employees across 7 offices in 4 countries. We support over 1,500 customers, with innovative brands like Lyft, Dropbox, Sara Lee Frozen Bakery, Allbirds, Robinhood and the ACLU relying on TripActions for their business travel needs. As one of Silicon Valley’s newest “unicorns”, TripActions has a valuation north of $1B and a total of $232M in funding. We’ve recently received $154M in our Series C funding round –– led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from repeat investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Zeev Ventures and SGVC.

TripActions was recently recognized as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies for 2019, #12 in LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2018 and #3 in the U.S. for Happiest Employees by Comparably.

We’re redefining what it means to travel for work. Come help us build the future of business travel.

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