Pedram Navid is the Head of Data at Hightouch where he leads advocacy for data practitioners, community-building, and the internal data stack. Prior to Hightouch, he has worked as a data engineer building up a modern data stack from the ground up and as a data scientist where he helped scale analytics at a major bank. He contributes to open-source packages and creates data memes on Twitter.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- How he entered the world of data science
- Reverse ETL
- How can new data science professionals evaluate various roles in data science
- How can interviewees evaluate team culture
- How data gets political within a company
- How should data practitioners forge alliances
- What is data activation
- How he manages data teams