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title: "Senior Director, Data"
company: "Navan"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/navan"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/navan-senior-director-data-2087a80d-6983-49b4-9fb9-e7c959b2f8e7"
apply_url: "https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8145890"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco, CA"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: director
role: other
region: united-states
skills: ["python", "pytorch", "sql", "tensorflow"]
date_posted: 2026-08-21T16:58:39.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-19T22:07:23.746Z
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# Senior Director, Data

**Navan** · San Francisco, CA

Apply: https://navan.com/careers/openings?gh_jid=8145890

## About Navan

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## About the role

#### Position Overview

As our Senior Director of Data, you will serve as the strategic visionary and executive engine powering our company’s data transformation. In this high-impact leadership role, you will redefine how we leverage information by driving enterprise data strategy, pioneering AI data readiness, commanding end-to-end pipeline engineering, and unlocking competitive advantages through cutting-edge predictive analytics. You will champion, build, and inspire a world-class team across data engineering, analytics, and data science, scaling modern infrastructure, deploying production-grade ML models, and relentlessly embedding a fearless, evidence-based, data-driven culture across every level of the organization.

#### Key Responsibilities

##### 1. Strategy & Organizational Data Leadership

- 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.

##### 2. AI Readiness & Data Science Leadership

- 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.

##### 3. Pipeline Engineering & Infrastructure

- 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).

##### 4. Governance, Analytics & Reporting

- 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.

#### Qualifications

- Experience: 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across data engineering, analytics, and data science.

- Leadership: Proven track record of managing data engineering and ML teams while fostering a data-driven organizational culture.

- Technical Mastery: Strong hands-on knowledge of Python, SQL, modern ETL tools, cloud data warehouses, and major ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn).

- Architecture & Pipelines: Deep expertise in pipeline design, streaming data architectures, MLOps, and feature store management.

- Education: Master's or Ph.D. in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field.

- Communication: Excellent capability to translate complex technical concepts into clear strategic insights for non-technical stakeholders.
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$194,400—$432,000 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.

**Human oversight:** Metaview does not automatically reject candidates or make final hiring decisions. Our recruiters and hiring managers review all outputs and make the final hiring decision regarding every application.

- Your rights: If you prefer to have your application reviewed without AI assistance, you may request a human evaluation by entering your email [here](https://my.metaview.app/applications/opt-out?organization=15dd7e883f). Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated. 

Please refer to our[Candidate Privacy Notice](https://navan.com/candidate-privacy-notice) for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights.

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