Reflections on shifting from hands-on work to mentoring and main
That is the seventh 12 months in my information science profession, a journey stuffed with dashboards, metrics, analyses, and fashions. However in August, I stepped into a brand new territory: turning into a individuals supervisor for the primary time. To be trustworthy, every time requested about my profession purpose up to now, I all the time mentioned I most popular staying on the IC observe. I cherished the technical challenges and proudly owning initiatives end-to-end. Nonetheless, when this chance got here up, I made a decision to offer it a shot. In spite of everything, you don’t know if one thing is best for you till you attempt.
On this article, I’ll share my preliminary expertise as a supervisor — what has modified, what I’ve loved, and what’s been difficult. If you’re debating between the IC and folks administration path, I hope it is going to assist shed some mild.
To set the stage, let me share how I transitioned to a individuals supervisor. After I first joined the crew 4 years in the past, everybody on the crew was a ‘full-stack’ information scientist — we every supported a particular area and owned every part from constructing information pipelines, defining enterprise metrics, and dashboarding, to evaluation, experimentation, and modeling. This framework…
