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Director, Travel & Expense

Databricks· Finance / Travel & Expense
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San Francisco, CA$167.6k - $288.1kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Strategic, operationally strong leader to modernize and scale Databricks’ global travel, expense, and corporate spend ecosystem, delivering a digital-first program with strong governance, compliance, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the transformation of the T&E program into a modern, automated, digital-first experience, including AI-enabled workflows, touchless expense processing, automated audit controls, and intelligent policy enforcement.
  • Create a frictionless employee experience across booking, expense submission, approvals, reimbursements, and support while simplifying processes and reducing manual work.
  • Build a scalable global T&E roadmap with KPIs, dashboards, and change management to support adoption.
  • Oversee global business travel operations across air, hotel, ground transportation, meetings, and traveler support, and shape regional travel strategies for a distributed workforce.
  • Manage travel partners and supplier relationships to improve service levels, optimize spend, and support evolving business needs.
  • Partner with Security and HR to strengthen traveler safety, duty of care, and crisis response capabilities.
  • Lead enterprise expense reimbursement and corporate card programs with a focus on automation, compliance, scalability, and employee experience.
  • Implement intelligent expense capabilities such as auto-generated reports, AI auditing, receipt automation, and policy-driven workflows, while accelerating reimbursement cycles.
  • Partner with AP, Payroll, and Finance Operations to streamline end-to-end financial processes.
  • Own the T&E technology ecosystem (e.g., Emburse, Egencia, Ramp, Brex, AppZen) and collaborate on integrations, APIs, and analytics.
  • Ensure strong policy governance, financial controls, audit readiness, and compliance with global tax, regulatory, data privacy, and regional travel requirements.
  • Build and lead a high-performing global team, developing leadership bench strength and influencing cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Supply Chain, Hospitality, Information Systems, or 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
  • MBA, CPA, CTP, or related certification preferred
  • Lean Six Sigma, automation, or digital transformation experience strongly preferred

Skills

Required:T&E transformationAI-enabled workflowsstakeholder management

Benefits

  • See regional benefits details linked in the job posting.
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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