Director, Data & Standards

Accommodations Plus International (API) is a technology and services company focused on driving innovation across the travel and transportation industry. We partner with organizations in the airline, cruise, and rail sectors to deliver solutions that improve layover operations, enhance customer experience, and support long-term growth.

Accommodations Plus International (API) is a technology and services company focused on driving innovation across the travel and transportation industry. We partner with organizations in the airline, cruise, and rail sectors to deliver solutions that improve layover operations, enhance customer experience, and support long-term growth.

Our mission is to make layovers simpler and more efficient for crew members-and we bring that to life through deep industry expertise and a practical, results-driven approach.

Today, API’s platform powers over 18 million crew room nights each year for 100+ airlines and travel operators worldwide. Our Global Reach ensures that airline crews are rested, transported, and connected so global aviation runs on time.

At API, we’re building a culture rooted in succeeding and thriving together. It’s a place where people are encouraged to take ownership, develop their skills, and contribute to work that matters.

If you’re looking to grow your career in a company that values steady progress, real impact, and long-term development, we’d like to meet you!

The Director, Data & Standards leads API’s data analyst team and owns the standards, governance, and quality practices that make our data trustworthy and usable across the organization. The role also carries forward key parts of API’s AI Enablement program: running AI experiments and pilots, driving adoption of enterprise AI tools, and using AI to improve how the data team works and the insights it delivers.

You will balance hands-on AI and analytics work with leadership of the team, setting direction, developing people, and raising the bar on how API defines, measures, and uses data. This is a remote position.

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Lead, coach, and develop a team of data analysts, including hiring, goal setting, performance management, and career growth.

Set priorities and manage the team’s workload across Engineering, Client Delivery, and Corporate stakeholders.

Review analyst work for accuracy, clarity, and business relevance, and ensure reporting and analysis are timely and decision-ready.

Build a culture of curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, including AI fluency across the team.

Define and maintain enterprise data standards, including metric definitions, naming conventions, documentation, and a shared data dictionary.

Establish data quality monitoring, validation processes, and issue-resolution workflows, and drive remediation with data owners.

Partner with IT, Engineering, and Security on data access, lifecycle management, and compliance requirements.

Serve as the authority on “one version of the truth” for key operational and commercial metrics.

Run intake, hypothesis design, metric definition, and outcome documentation for data and AI experiments across the organization.

Lead go/no-go reviews and graduation-to-production decisions for AI pilots, owning validation evidence, vendor coordination, and integration readiness.

Evaluate AI outputs for accuracy and reliability, and set quality standards for AI-generated analysis.

Partner to drive training, communications, and enablement for Claude…