Own Clarasight's third party data strategy end to end: from discovering and evaluating new data sources through to managing the ongoing performance, quality, and value of our data partnerships.
Operate at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Solutions Delivery, and our external data ecosystem, ensuring the data powering our platform and roadmap is fit for purpose, high quality, and commercially sound.
This is a build from scratch role with high autonomy and broad exposure: you'll work directly with company leadership across solutions, product, and engineering, and represent Clarasight with partners across the travel industry.
Data Strategy & Source Discovery
Own the map of the third party travel data landscape including flight, hotel, emissions enrichment, benchmarking, market intelligence and maintain our source strategy: the unique attributes, strengths, and limitations of each provider.
Run hands-on technical evaluations of candidate data sources: sample data analysis, API and documentation review, schema and coverage assessment, and fit for purpose determination against product roadmap and customer requirements.
Translate findings into clear data requirements and product inputs in partnership with Product and Engineering.
Vendor Management & Data Accountability
Serve as the primary point of contact for our data vendors: own escalations, triage data issues, and run the ad-hoc analysis needed to isolate root cause quickly and credibly.
Reconcile delivered data against contracted specifications and SLAs.
Prepare the technical and financial groundwork for vendor negotiations and renewals, usage and volume modeling, API consumption analysis, SLA validation, arming commercial leadership with context to operate effectively.
Ecosystem & Partnership Development
Qualification
Background in B2B SaaSDiverse Perspectives
Required
You know the corporate travel ecosystem from the inside. You've worked among TMCs, GDSs, booking tools, or travel data providers. You're equally at home reading API documentation as you are navigating a large partner organization to find the one stakeholder who can unlock what you need. You're hands on with data: when a vendor tells you a feed is fine, you'd rather open the file and verify it yourself. You bring curiosity, tenacity, and a bias for action, and you're excited by the opportunity to build a new function from the ground up at a fast moving company applying AI to one of travel's hardest data problems.
Preferred
Experience supporting or leading commercial negotiations with data or technology vendors (contract structures, pricing models, volume thresholds), important in this role, and something we'll invest in developing.
Familiarity with data privacy and compliance considerations in travel data (e.g. GDPR, PCI).
Background in B2B SaaS, API-based integrations, or ETL tooling.
Experience working alongside AI systems and applying human judgment to automated outputs.
Diverse Perspectives
We know that innovation thrives on teams where diverse points of view come together to solve hard problems in ways that are just now possible. As such, we explicitly seek people that bring diverse life experiences, diverse educational backgrounds, diverse cultures, and diverse work experiences. Please be prepared to share with us how your perspective will bring something unique and valuable to our team.
