Travel Manager

The role

The Travel Manager will own the travel function end to end by administering the Navan platform and supporting travelers. This person will build the duty-of-care program and control travel spend for engineers, program teams, and field personnel.

What you will do

• Serve as system administrator for Navan
• Lead completion of the Navan migration and drive adoption
• Maintain preferred vendor programs and corporate accounts
• Own reporting on travel spend, policy compliance, and vendor performance
• Act as primary point of contact for travel questions and disruptions
• Plan and book complex multi-leg international itineraries
• Coordinate visas, entry requirements, vaccinations, and documentation
• Build and maintain the duty-of-care program
• Coordinate with Security, IT, and outside providers for travelers in hostile regions
• Own the corporate travel policy

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, hospitality, international affairs, or another related field, or equivalent work experience
• Hands-on experience administering a corporate travel platform (Navan, Concur, Egencia, or similar)
• Experience booking and supporting complex international itineraries, including high-risk or logistically difficult regions
• Working knowledge of duty-of-care practices, traveler risk management, and emergency response coordination
• Ability to navigate visa and entry requirements quickly and accurately under time pressure
• Experience building travel spend and compliance reporting
• Strong service orientation
• Willingness to be reachable for traveler emergencies outside normal business hours

Nice to have

• Experience in defense, aerospace, government contracting, energy, NGO, or another industry with frequent travel to high-risk regions
• Navan administration experience specifically, including a platform migration or initial rollout
• Experience supporting travel for personnel operating under export control regimes (e.g., ITAR/EAR) or holding security clearances
• Experience with Ramp or a similar expense platform and its integration with travel tools
• Vendor negotiation experience with airlines, hotel chains, or travel management companies

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the company
• 401k with 50% company match up to 6% of pay
• FSA
• HSA
• life insurance
• Free daily lunch while working onsite
• fully-stocked kitchen
• unlimited PTO
• casual dress code
• pre-IPO stock option grants
• relocation assistance
• annual bonuses (coming soon)

Before you apply

• CHAOS Industries does not accept unsolicited resumes or outreach

About the company

CHAOS Industries is a modern defense company with a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™). Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles.