Reflections on transferring from hands-on work to mentoring and main
That is the seventh 12 months in my information science profession, a journey crammed with dashboards, metrics, analyses, and fashions. However in August, I stepped into a brand new territory: turning into a folks supervisor for the primary time. To be sincere, each time requested about my profession objective up to now, I at all times mentioned I most popular staying on the IC monitor. I beloved the technical challenges and proudly owning initiatives end-to-end. Nevertheless, when this chance got here up, I made a decision to provide it a shot. In any case, you don’t know if one thing is best for you till you strive.
On this article, I’ll share my preliminary expertise as a supervisor — what has modified, what I’ve loved, and what’s been difficult. In case you are debating between the IC and folks administration path, I hope it should assist shed some mild.
To set the stage, let me share how I transitioned to a folks supervisor. Once I first joined the staff 4 years in the past, everybody on the staff was a ‘full-stack’ information scientist — we every supported a particular area and owned the whole lot from constructing information pipelines, defining enterprise metrics, and dashboarding, to evaluation, experimentation, and modeling. This framework…