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Freelance Brand Designer

Navan

The job involves developing and maintaining Navan's brand visual identity, designing marketing materials across digital, print, social media, and presentation formats, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency. Navan is a corporate travel and expense platform that provides AI-powered business travel and expense management services.

Location
Texas, Austin
Arrangement
Remote
Level
Contract
Employment
Freelance
Date added
2026-09-04
Last checked
2026-10-17

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Freelance Brand Designer Location:Austin, TX; Palo Alto, CA or San Francisco, CA; Remote (USA) Department:Marketing Pacific or Central Time (San Francisco, Austin, or Remote) Mid May - August 1 (with possibility to extend) Ten years ago Navan started as a radical disruptor in a boring and complacent industry. Now, we’re a major player in corporate travel and expense, leading the category with truly impressive proprietary tech. On the backbone of the best product in the market, we’re building a world class brand. Our mission is to make travel easy for every frequent traveler. Our lean creative team punches above its weight. You’ll join a group of writers, designers and marketers to build Navan’s visual identity and execute across our marketing channels. We’ll look to you to create stunning visual graphics through all stages of the customer journey, supporting brand, social, demand gen, lifecycle, internal projects, and more. You’ll flex from everyday work to high-visibility, high-impact projects. Your portfolio should showcase creative ideation and execution of stellar designs. We’re looking for someone who can take initiative, be scrappy when needed, and is excited to push this brand forward. You should be able to understand the brand and bring it to life for different audiences. Join us! The company is growing, we have momentum in the market, and we have a ton of energetic folks making it happen every day.

What You'll Do

  • Develop the Navan brand and maintain a cohesive visual identity, ensuring consistency across all marketing touchpoints
  • Design and produce high-quality marketing materials, including digital assets, print collateral, social media graphics, and presentation decks
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure brand consistency and alignment with overall business goals
  • Stay current with industry trends, design techniques, and emerging technologies to continuously improve the quality and effectiveness of our brand design
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring deadlines are met and deliverables exceed expectations

What We're Looking For

  • A robust portfolio showcasing design and creative excellence
  • 5+ years of experience in brand design
  • Expertise in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and Google products
  • Strong understanding of typography, color theory, and layout design
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions and rationale
  • A creative thinker with a proactive approach to problem-solving
  • Animation skills are a plus

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. Your decision to do so will not affect how your candidacy is evaluated.

Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about our processing of personal data, and your rights. 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 equity plans, so you can share in Navan’s success. To promote balance, we offer flexible time off, country-specific holidays, and paid parental leave for all new parents. Additional benefits include connectivity and commuting support*, mental health resources, and exclusive travel-related perks. Wherever you’re based, our benefits evolve with you. Workplace Policy Navan believes in the value of in-person connections, whether that’s sitting down to have lunch with one another, taking a walking 1:1, or collaborating in a room together. The connections forged through face-to-face interactions improve company culture and drive business results. Navan invests in global office spaces — in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, among others — that feel welcoming. In-office perks such as company-provided lunches and happy hours create a strong team environment to help you do your best work. Our employees work from the office four days a week. Please expect this policy for all roles that are tied to an office.

About Navan

Navan 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.

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