97: How To Build an Organization-Empowering Data Team with Emilie Schario of Amplify Partners

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Emilie’s background and career journey (3:00)
• Hypergrowth at GitLab (5:23)
• Being close to the money in data (9:50)
• Big things taken from GitLab to Netlify (13:00)
• Defining “data organization” (17:53)
• The first roles you should hire for (22:06)
• Defining “analytics engineer” (23:44)
• One role to bridge different needs (27:26)
• Why data analysts are needed (30:51)
• How to avoid a kitchen sink of data (40:20)
• Data engineer archetype (45:48)
• Data roles crossing over (48:09)

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