Global Rental Operations AI Data Specialist
About The Position
Travel + Leisure Co. is the world’s leading vacation ownership and travel membership company, with a dynamic and growing portfolio of resort, travel club, and lifestyle travel brands. Our dedicated associates help the company achieve its mission to put the world on vacation. Innovation and growth keep our work interesting and fun. Every day is a chance to learn something new and turn vacation inspiration into exceptional experiences for millions of travelers worldwide. The AI Data Specialist for Global Rental Operations (GRO) develops AI-ready data structures, partners closely with IT engineering and data science teams, and ensures high-quality, well-modeled data across Snowflake, Salesforce, Power BI, and activation systems. This liaison role bridges GRO and IT, translating business needs into technical requirements, conducting QA, and supporting scalable modeling and automation. The role is essential to GRO’s growth as it expands into new marketplaces, distribution partners, and brands — enabling cohesive, AI-supported customer and performance views and helping shift GRO toward rule-based, automated marketing. This role is hybrid in office Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and remote Thursday and Friday.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field preferred
- Snowflake/SQL/Python certifications preferred.
- QA, data modeling, documentation, cross-functional liaison
- SQL, Snowflake, Python, Power BI, CRM/CDP systems
- 4+ years in data engineering or applied analytics; experience with IT partnership.
- Experience equivalent to the education requirement may be accepted in lieu of the education requirement.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable, AI-ready semantic models and structured datasets in Snowflake to unify customer, marketplace, and performance data across brands and partners.
- Define ingestion standards for new marketplaces, distribution partners, and brand data to ensure consistency and long-term scalability.
- Serve as the primary liaison between GRO and IT/data science teams, translating business needs into clear technical requirements and documentation.
- Conduct QA across pipelines, partner feeds, feature stores, and model outputs to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
- Support advanced modeling use cases such as propensity scoring, persona clustering, lookalikes, and inventory-based triggers by developing reusable, well-structured features.
- Structure and optimize Power BI semantic models to enable AI-powered insights (including Copilot) and cohesive, cross-channel performance dashboards.
- Enable rule-based, model-informed automation by developing scalable data triggers and activation logic that reduce manual campaign execution.
- Ensure data definitions, activation logic, and reporting frameworks remain consistent as GRO expands into new markets, brands, and channels.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Flexible spending accounts
- Life and accident coverage
- Disability
- Depending on position, paid time off, parental leave and holidays (speak to your recruiter for additional information)
- Wish day paid time to volunteer at an approved organization of your choice
- 401k with employer match (subject to eligibility requirements, including tenure - speak to your recruiter for additional information)
- Legal and identify theft plan
- Voluntary income protection benefits
- Wellness program (subject to provider availability)
- Employee Assistance Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
