Travel Manager

Location: El Segundo, California, United States; onsite role. Occasional travel of less than 10%, primarily to CHAOS offices and vendor meetings. Must be reachable for traveler emergencies outside normal business hours on a rotating or as-needed basis.

Salary: $105,000–$132,000 base compensation per year, excluding bonuses, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a defense technology company founded in 2022 that develops products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

What you will do

• Administer Navan, including user provisioning, policy configuration, approval workflows, cost-center and department mapping, and integrations with expense and accounting systems.
• Complete the Navan migration, drive company-wide adoption, and manage preferred vendors, negotiated rates, corporate accounts, and travel spend reporting.
• Support complex multi-leg international itineraries, travel changes and disruptions, after-hours escalations, visas, entry requirements, vaccinations, and country-specific documentation.
• Partner with program and field teams on deployments, test events, and customer site visits.
• Build and maintain the duty-of-care program, including traveler tracking, risk briefings, check-in protocols, emergency response procedures, and coordination with security, medical evacuation, and insurance providers.
• Own the travel policy and exception workflows while supporting travel-related accounting close activities, accruals, and reconciliations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, hospitality, international affairs, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Hands-on experience administering a corporate travel platform such as Navan, Concur, Egencia, or a similar tool, including policy configuration and approval workflows.
• Experience booking and supporting complex international itineraries, including travel to 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 reports and explaining them to non-finance audiences.
• Strong service orientation and judgment to enforce policy without becoming a bottleneck.
• 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 involving frequent travel to high-risk regions.
• Navan administration experience, including a platform migration or initial rollout.
• Experience supporting personnel operating under export control regimes such as 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.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, FSA, HSA, life insurance, and other benefits.
• Free daily lunch while working onsite and a fully stocked kitchen.
• Unlimited paid time off and a casual dress code.
• Relocation assistance, pre-IPO stock option grants, and annual bonuses planned for the future.
• A growing organization with more than 500 employees across five global offices.