Senior Manager, Real Estate & Workplace Programs

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain a trusted global portfolio view of our spaces, lease obligations, commercial terms, capacity, business purpose, key documents, owners, and upcoming decisions.
• Own the portfolio calendar, ensuring key lease, renewal, expansion, project, payment, and approval deadlines are visible, actionable, and translated into clear business implications.
• Manage broker relationships and transaction workstreams, ensuring market activity, proposals, deal timelines, stakeholder inputs, and decision points are coordinated and aligned to Navan’s business needs.
• Own the internal business case for real estate decisions, including options, assumptions, risks, financial impact, operational implications, stakeholder alignment, and recommended path forward.
• Partner closely with Finance to maintain visibility into occupancy costs, rent commitments, capex and opex assumptions, budget exposure, forecast changes, and scenario models.
• Coordinate occupancy, utilization, and capacity planning inputs across key locations, and use them to frame space planning options such as expansion, consolidation, sublease, exit, relocation, or seating changes.
• Partner with business stakeholders to align requirements, constraints, timing, decision makers, and open questions.
• Create visibility across real estate and workplace projects, including milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, budgets, escalations, and leadership updates.
• Build repeatable standards for space requests, project handoffs, site readiness, and portfolio reviews.
• Apply practical AI-enabled workflows and automation to improve portfolio visibility, documentation, reporting, decision preparation, and operating efficiency.

What We're Looking For:

• 6+ years of experience in corporate real estate, workplace strategy, real estate portfolio management, or real estate program management.
• Experience supporting a multi-site corporate real estate or workplace portfolio; international or global portfolio experience strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of lease events, renewals, notice dates, transaction timelines, landlord coordination, broker processes, and key commercial obligations.
• Experience managing brokers and external real estate partners while owning internal stakeholder alignment, business case development, financial assumptions, and executive decision materials.
• Ability to connect headcount, seats, utilization, cost, timing, and business needs into clear portfolio views, options, and decision support.
• Strong partnership skills with Finance, People, Legal, Procurement, IT, Security, and regional workplace teams on occupancy planning, portfolio forecasting, and real estate decision governance.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to create clear cadences, decision tracking, escalation paths, and cross-functional accountability.
• Excellent analytical and executive communication skills, with the ability to synthesize conflicting inputs into clear trackers, status updates, decision memos, risk summaries, and leadership updates.
• Strong comfort with AI-enabled tools, automation, and data-driven workflows; curious and proactive about using technology to improve how teams operate.
• Ability to travel up to 20% across domestic and international locations as portfolio initiatives require.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in a high-growth technology company or similarly fast-moving global environment.
• Prior experience in corporate real estate, workplace strategy, portfolio strategy, either in-house or with firms such as JLL, CBRE, Cushman & Wakefield, or similar.
• Hands-on experience coordinating across AMER, EMEA, and APAC time zones, vendors, lease structures, regional teams, and external project partners.
• Familiarity with workplace data sources such as badge data, seat inventories, HRIS headcount, finance forecasts, and lease administration tools.

What Success Looks Like:

• We have one trusted view of every space we occupy, what it entails, what it costs, and what decisions are coming.

• Lease obligations, notice windows, renewals, project milestones, and decision deadlines are visible before they become urgent.

• Occupancy, utilization, seat count, and headcount data are reviewed consistently and used to frame clear space planning options.

• Brokers, Finance, Legal, business stakeholders, and regional workplace teams operate from a clear decision process, with Navan-owned business cases guiding major real estate recommendations.

• Leadership has decision-ready materials for major space, cost, timing, and portfolio tradeoffs, and regional workplace teams have clearer structure around real estate-driven work.

• 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

• $113,400—$252,000 USD

• Navan uses AI-assisted Automated Employment Decision Tool (Metaview) to assist with evaluating resumes against job qualifications for this role. All final decisions are made by human recruiters and hiring managers.

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• About Navan

• Navan (Nasdaq: NAVN) is the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform that makes travel easy for frequent travelers. From finding flights and hotels, to automating expense reconciliation, with 24/7 support along the way, Navan delivers an intuitive experience travelers love and finance teams rely on. See how Navan customers benefit and learn more at navan.com.

• Culture of Excellence

• Our team is our competitive edge — a high-performance group of smart, driven people committed to winning together. This dedication to excellence is why we’ve been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In (2023–2026), a G2 Best Global Software Company (2025–2026), Forbes Cloud 100 (2022–2025), and CNBC Disruptor 50 (2022–2025). At Navan, we provide an environment where top talent excels, offering the autonomy and fast-paced trajectory needed to build a defining career and do the best work of your life.

• Our Benefits

• Navan offers a comprehensive benefits program designed to support your well-being, financial security, and life outside of work. Our benefits, thoughtfully tailored by country to meet local needs, include healthcare coverage, insurance offerings, and wellness resources for you and your family.

• We support long-term financial growth through retirement savings programs and opportunities to participate in our equi