You’ve Got To Pivot Your Career, Just Like Your Products: How I Got Into Data
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Builds a product management function from zero to one for advanced analytics and data science, migrating to Google Cloud platform, assembling an in‑house team that grows to 10 people in 18 months and delivers thousands of code releases. Creates tangible data products and a single-source data platform to stop conflicting metrics, applies a start-small product mindset (fast model-to-production), designs a mastery career framework for individual contributors, and hires the first apprentice and associate to prove the approach scales.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:02Bringing humanity to work
- 2:28Maternity leave pivot opportunity
- 3:53Building an in-house data team
- 5:40Product management in data
- 7:05What are data products
- 8:47Comfort zones and career breaks
- 10:53Pivoting through discomfort
- 12:17Individual contributor vs management
- 14:01Career breaks beyond maternity leave
- 15:25Networking and personal growth
- 16:48Encouraging women in data
- 18:52Learning and development relevance
- 20:17Three key career tips
- 21:20Teaching girls bravery
- 22:23Women in Data community growth
- 23:46Managing FOMO during maternity leave
- 24:48Q&A and closing remarks
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