Data Science Career Ladders
How to Think About Data Career Paths
Everything You Need to Build Your Own Data Science Career LadderGeorge provides details on individual contributor and management tracks for data scientists, along with descriptions of 49 skills within 12 skill categories. At the bottom of the article, George provides a link to a sample data science skill matrix.
The Analyst Career PathThe data analysis department is generally smaller than departments like engineering and product management, which leads to more questions about how to progress through a data analysis career. Casey provides 3 career pathway options based on his experience managing data analysts: • Option 1: Graduate into Data Science • Option 2: Become an Analytics Manager • Option 3: Graduate into Product Management
Data Skill Groups
Data Science Career Path & ProgressionJulien explains the 4 skill groups (he calls them data axes) of data career paths: • Data axis • Engineering axis • Business axis • Product axis
Data Analytics Career Ladders Examples
Yerdle Recommerce Analytics Team Career LadderYerdle's data analytics career ladder covers 4 IC levels with.5 skill groups, and 2 manager levels with 4 skill groups.
Data Science Career Ladders Examples
Building high-performing Research and Data Science teams with clear career pathsKaren describes the process and results of building a career ladder for the research, analytics, and data science team at Intercom. The IC track covers 6 levels and 6 skill groups, and the manager track covers 2 levels with 5 skill groups.
Kickstarter's Engineering & Data Science Career LaddersKickstarter's approach has fewer levels and uses textual descriptions rather than a matrix of skills.
