Manager, Travel

The posting, as MongoDB wrote it

The Travel Manager Americas is accountable for the strategy, operations, and optimisation of the company’s corporate travel programme across the Americas region. This role requires an operationally minded, commercially focused, and employee-centric professional to manage our regional travel management programme while ensuring strict compliance with global Travel & Expense (T&E) policies and regional regulatory requirements. The role partners closely with Finance, HR, Procurement, Security, and regional business leaders to support business growth, traveller safety, and operational excellence.

We're looking to speak with candidates based in Seattle, New York City, or Palo Alto for our hybrid working model.

Key Responsibilities

Travel Programme Strategy & Governance

• Own the Americas travel programme, ensuring alignment with global T&E policy and mobility strategy
• Localise global travel policies to meet regional requirements (tax, labour, safety, visa, and local regulations)
• Act as the primary regional escalation point for travel-related issues

Supplier & Vendor Management

• Manage regional supplier relationships, including Travel Management Companies (TMCs such as Navan), airlines, hotel chains, and car rental providers
• Lead sourcing initiatives, RFPs, and contract renewals in close partnership with Procurement
• Track supplier performance against SLAs, cost targets, and traveller satisfaction metrics

Financial & Cost Management

• Drive cost optimisation through preferred supplier adoption and traveller behaviour change
• Partner with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and cost-saving initiatives
• Monitor spend leakage, out-of-policy bookings, and compliance trends

Traveller Experience & Support

• Ensure a seamless, inclusive, and regionally relevant traveller experience
• Define and maintain traveller communications, policy guidelines, and self-service resources
• Oversee issue resolution relating to travel disruptions, complex itineraries, or VIP escalations

Risk, Duty of Care & Compliance

• Partner with Security and Legal to uphold duty of care obligations
• Ensure regional alignment with traveller tracking, emergency response protocols, and travel risk management
• Support internal and external audits relating to travel and expense programmes

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary regional point of contact for business leaders and HR partners
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Meetings & Events, Mobility, and People Operations teams
• Contribute actively to global travel governance forums and working groups

Skills & Experience Required

• 5 - 10 years of corporate travel management experience within a large-scale, global programme
• Demonstrated experience managing a multi-country travel programme, ideally across the Americas
• Proven track record managing enterprise-scale corporate travel programmes with significant annual spend
• Experience spearheading end-to-end airline RFP processes and

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Req ID: 2273502153
MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$69,000 — $135,000 USD