Things I learned hiring a data science leader.

I’m ending the year by pushing a handful of drafts that have something useful but that I’ll probably never finish. I’ve dubbed this draft week, and this is one of them!

Earlier this year I spent time designing, running, and tweaking the hiring process for a Head of Data Science. While I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about structuring and sizing engineering teams, I’ve come to appreciate that effective approaches are fact-specific. I wanted to avoid assuming that what I knew about engineering ...