Landing an internship with the SkyMiles team isn’t just about free flights (though the flight benefits are amazing). It’s about understanding how a legacy brand keeps 100+ million members engaged.
One day, I was running a regression model on how Amex co-brand card spend correlates with upgrade requests. The next day, I was sitting in on a strategy call debating whether a 15,000-mile flash sale for a flight to Cancun would cannibalize paid first-class revenue. skymiles internship
The biggest takeaway? The finance team showed us that SkyMiles generates billions in liquid capital. As an intern, seeing that balance sheet was a "holy grail" moment. The Work (It’s Real, Not Coffee) I was nervous that I would be doing busy work. Instead, I was given a live problem: "Why are our lower-tier members churning at a higher rate than last quarter?" Landing an internship with the SkyMiles team isn’t
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