As a DS manager, your primary responsibility is to nurture your team to produce business impact. Your capabilities are reflected in your ability to deliver results, promote a portfolio of technical expertise in your team, and increase your team’s potential to capture additional opportunities. Many of these responsibilities also apply to a staff data scientist.
The primary technology for a DS manager is the delegation process. Effective delegation maximizes the productivity of the team. As a manager or staff data scientist, you can also manage consistency across models and projects and make recommendations for build-versus-buy decisions to improve team productivity. We discuss these technology concerns in section 4.1.
To have a powerful team to delegate to, you can build and nurture a team of talent under your supervision. As manager or staff data scientist, influencing partner teams and coordinating on producing more impact together can help your team members be more successful. Aligning your team’s effort with senior executives’ goals and managing up is also crucial for the successful execution of company initiatives. We discuss these in section 4.2.