Birchbox

“So every month our customers are able to choose one of their samples. This is our highest engagement moment every month.”

“Don't be limited by the data that you have today, and if you run a data science team, don't let them be limited by it. Empower people to go out and get the data that they need to do their jobs.”

“And we do this with the help of a very nice solver called Garobi.”

“To organize functionally, but what we've found is that people can learn from each other really well that the data scientists and the statistical analysts can learn from each other and that that's great, and that it really helps when people are working together…”

“We never send you the same thing twice, for example.”

“Trained almost the entire company to use SQL.”

“We were using one of our recommendation algorithms just recently in a catalog sort which we newly put in, and it showed a 20% lift in conversion on, like, full size purchase.”

“So we see a data scientist as someone who contributes to product development, essentially. Someone with very specialized skills, Who helps us deliver our products into market. And so by specialized skills, I essentially mean a PhD or something very much like i…”

“And moving more and more and more and more of the messages we send our customers over push, over email to triggered, we've seen huge increases in the conversion of those messages.”