The Tech Trek Challenges in hiring for an analytics team
On the show, I speak to Yanyan Wu, the Vice President of Data and Analytics at Verisk. Yanyan shares her strategies, from structuring to scaling an analytics team.
Key Takeaways:
- Challenges in building and scaling an analytics team.
- Dealing with the technology gap
- Getting the right people on your team,
- Roles and responsibilities of a team leader
- Learning metrics that matter to your members.
- Challenges in finding someone technically strong and a great analyst.
- Ways to Identify the future leader in your team and traits that must-haves.
About today’s guest:
As a vice president and data analytics expert, Yanyan Wu develops innovative data analytics strategies and transformed data platforms for big data used in the oil&gas industry. She layout the multi-year product development roadmap and execution to deliver the data and data insights to internal and external clients to enable them to make smart investment decisions/recommendations.
Yanyan’s 15-year career in product management and digital technologies spans the head of data analytics in Halliburton digital solution, Principal digital production manager at GE Digital and Senior production manager at GE Oil&Gas from transforming digital technologies to new product development and its commercialization in financial service and energy businesses. She led the team to help businesses to increase productivity by more than
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wuyanyan/
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