Director, Travel & Expense

The role

This leader will lead and modernize the global travel, expense, and corporate spend ecosystem. They will drive a digital-first, scalable program to improve employee experience and strengthen governance and financial discipline.

What you will do

• Lead the transformation of the T&E program into a modern, automated, digital-first experience.
• Create a frictionless employee experience across booking, expense submission, approvals, reimbursements, and support.
• Build a scalable global T&E roadmap with clear KPIs, dashboards, and change management.
• Oversee global business travel operations across air, hotel, ground transportation, meetings, and traveler support.
• Manage travel partners and supplier relationships.
• Partner with Security and HR to strengthen traveler safety, duty of care, and crisis response capabilities.
• Lead enterprise expense reimbursement and corporate card programs.
• Implement intelligent expense capabilities such as auto-generated reports, AI auditing, and receipt automation.
• Partner with AP, Payroll, and Finance Operations to streamline end-to-end financial processes.
• Own the T&E technology ecosystem including platforms such as Emburse, Egencia, Ramp, Brex, and AppZen.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Hospitality, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Travel, Expense, Procurement, Finance Operations, Shared Services, or related functions.
• Proven success leading T&E transformation, automation, or digital modernization initiatives in high-growth or fast-paced organizations.
• Experience leading global or multinational T&E programs and managing regional operations and cross-border transformation efforts.
• Strong operational leadership with the ability to translate strategy into scalable execution.
• Deep expertise in T&E platforms, workflow automation, corporate card programs, and expense technologies.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled operations, process redesign, and scalable service delivery models.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, communication, and change leadership skills.

Nice to have

• MBA
• CPA
• CTP
• related certification
• Lean Six Sigma
• automation experience
• digital transformation experience

Benefits

• annual performance bonus
• equity

About the company

Databricks is the Data and AI company. Headquartered in San Francisco with 30+ offices around the globe, it provides a unified platform used by more than 20,000 organizations.