Metadata
- Author: Mike Sall
- Full Title:: Product Scientist
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Data Team Roles, Data Team Roles,
- URL:: https://medium.com/@sall/product-scientist-ffd1ae846172
- Finished date:: 2024-03-16
Highlights
At Medium, Product Science is the central team responsible for every step of translating data into insights that improve the product. We’re the arrow in this chart (View Highlight)
On a day-to-day basis, you’ll spend half of your time with product teams: a group of engineers, designers, a product manager, and you, the product scientist, all working together in a small group to build new features. You’ll extract key data and findings, define metrics, evaluate A|B tests, identify opportunities based on the data, and share new insights no one considered before. You’ll be right there, brainstorming with the team, thinking ahead, ensuring we make the best data-informed decisions. The other half of your time will be spent with us, the Product Science team, enhancing our general analytics (View Highlight)
We need the essentials: strong attention to detail, excellent written and oral communication skills to articulate insights, and great problem solving with thoughtful approaches. Product scientists should also have technical depth; data analysis experience (ideally with consumer web products), is necessary for this role. It’d be great if you can calculate the significance of an A|B test, pinpoint the underlying factors contributing to a metric’s growth, and regularly use a few of these languages and/or programs: SQL, R, SPSS, Excel, Javascript, D3, and Python (View Highlight)