Product Managers and Stakeholders in Product Analytics

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A common thing you see for product managers in particular is to dictate something extremely specific that they want. A lot of analysts who haven't worked with an analyst who needed that level of specificity, then they've been conditioned to think that's the way to work with an analyst. So I feel like it's kind of a problem in the industry and some other data lead has to come in and be like, can we not just become the order takers? Like, could we step back and are you going to be receptive to giving me more context?"

You've got some solid experience under your belt, and you're starting to feel like you're ready to move into a data leadership role. What does that even mean? Shifting your keystrokes from SQL to slide decks? Maybe (but maybe not). Katie Bauer, Head of Data at GlossGenius, has held multiple data leadership roles over the course of her career, and she penned a thoughtful post on the various tactics she employed to find a role that is a good fit. She wrote the post so that she wouldn't have to keep repeating herself when data folks in her network reached out for advice. But that didn't stop this podcast from reaching out to record a lively discussion on the topic! For complete show notes, including links to items mentioned in this episode and a transcript of the show, visit the show page.