S1 | E9 | What it takes to build a best in class locally based Data team from the ground up with John Coles - Sr Director of Data Science & Analytics @ ACV
This is Episode 9 of the ThinkData podcast in Partnership with Dataworks and ACV and I am super excited to welcome John Coles to the podcast in this episode.
John is the Senior Director of Data Science and Analytics at ACV and they are one of America’s largest digital marketplaces and data services partners for the automotive sector.
In the first episode of a 3 part series, we will be talking about how ACV trained, hired, and developed their very own Data Team in the Buffalo area!
We discussed -
- The background to the project at ACV and why Data & Analytics are seen as such an important driver behind their growth.
- The importance of having senior stakeholder buy-in and support from the very beginning.
- How John and ACV overcame the challenges of building and hiring a specialist data team in Buffalo, New York.
- What was behind their vision for launching a boot camp and how that worked in practice
- As John looked to scale out his team, what steps did he take in order to create a management layer?
- How John created and established a clear set of values and guiding principles that the team was brought into?
This is a great episode for anyone that is interested in hearing what it takes to create a brand new team, from scratch and overcome one of the MAJOR blockers to many firms that look to hire, LOCATION!
