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Episode 97:

How To Build an Organization-Empowering Data Team with Emilie Schario of Amplify Partners

July 27, 2022

This week on The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas chat with Emilie Schario, a data strategist at Amplify Partners. During the episode, Emilie discusses what your first data team hire should be, why data analysts are needed, and helps define various roles in data.

 

Notes:

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

  • Emilie’s background and career journey (3:00)
  • Hypergrowth at GitLab (5:23)
  • Being close to the money in data (9:50)
  • Big things taken from GitLab to Netlify (13:00)
  • Defining “data organization” (17:53)
  • The first roles you should hire for (22:06)
  • Defining “analytics engineer” (23:44)
  • One role to bridge different needs (27:26)
  • Why data analysts are needed (30:51)
  • How to avoid a kitchen sink of data (40:20)
  • Data engineer archetype (45:48)
  • Data roles crossing over (48:09)

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