#66 How to Structure a Data Analytics Team with June Dershewitz – Director of Analytics

June Dershewitz has spent her career driving analytics strategies for major businesses. She's currently Director of Analytics at Twitch, the world's leading video platform and community for gamers (a subsidiary of Amazon). As an analytics practitioner, she builds and leads teams that focus on marketing analytics, product analytics, business intelligence, and data governance. In her prior life as a consultant, she was a member of the leadership team at Semphonic, a prominent analytics consultancy (now part of Ernst & Young). As a long-standing advocate of the analytics community, she was the co-founder of Web Analytics Wednesdays; she's also a Director Emeritus of the Digital Analytics Association and a current Advisory Board Member at Golden Gate University. She holds a BA in Mathematics from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.

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We speak about:

[01:40] How June started in the data space

[08:20] Solving problems in startups

[09:45] Getting a holistic view in the workplace

[11:20] Feeling unsure about owning a piece of work

[15:30] Business intelligence skillsets for data scientists

[19:35] Clear understanding of data roles in the workplace

[20:55] An overview of June’s teams’ structures

[27:10] Managing career transitions with the hub and spoke model

[29:25] Assigning each person a technical buddy

[32:10] The data quality journey

[41:40] Evolution of data quality at Twitch

[48:00] Becoming involved in the data science community

[53:10] Other ways June stays involved in her communities

[55:20] Advice for breaking into the data science field

Resources:

June’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdersh

Non-Invasive Data Governance: The Path of Least Resistance and Greatest Success

Data Governance: How to Design, Deploy and Sustain an Effective Data Governance Program

Quotes:

“The thing about being a data person at that time was we just had to figure it out.”

“I was the vice president of everything that needed to get done.”

“At Twitch, we don’t have a clear definition of what a data engineer means.”

“We chose to move to an organization model that is hub and spoke.”

“Data governance can mean lots of things to lots of people.”

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