Corporate Development

About the Role Navan's Corporate Development serves as a small, nimble SEAL Team Six at the center of driving and executing our M&A strategy. As Navan continues to scale, this role will tackle high-impact, cross-functional issues and help build a world-class corporate development function from the ground up. What You'll Do

• Drive our M&A strategy, execution, and deal implementation.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to identify, structure, quantify, and answer complex business problems to help inform executive and board decisions.
• Develop relationships with leaders in product, finance, sales, and operations to understand their business needs and how M&A could help.
• Work closely with our partnership team to refine our long-term plan by partner and identify where we might want to invest more formally in these relationships.
• Build deal-related models, including valuation, synergies, growth, and funding options.
• Create and implement PMI playbooks to maximize value post acquisition.
• Refine and monitor our competitive landscape.
• Help build out a world-class Corporate Development team from the ground up. What We're Looking For
• 5+ years in a comparable work environment—with evidence of high performance—including Banking, Consulting, Product Management, or VC/PE.
• Experience in another high-growth tech company is a plus, but not required.
• You’re an owner with a strong bias for action and end-to-end ownership.
• You’re super analytical, structured, and can break down complex problems into simple components.
• You are a black belt in Excel/Google Sheets, but are equally comfortable laying things out on the whiteboard or in slides.
• Exceptional communication skills, business judgment, and the ability to tell compelling data-driven stories to senior leaders, including our C-suite and Board.
• You gravitate toward people and enjoy working in a highly cross-functional role. You can help engineering resolve a technical question in the morning, work with FP&A on a model in the afternoon, and negotiate a deal structure in the evening.
• You are very comfortable either modeling and structuring complex deals or driving cross-functional integration efforts after closing.
• A spike in at least one of these is preferred, while the other can be developed on the job. Nice to Have
• Experience in another high-growth tech company is a plus.