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Centralized functional data teams prevent duplicate work and foster peer learning
“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…”
Birchbox defines data scientists as PhD-level coders on product teams
“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…”
Non-scrappy data scientists do not belong in early-stage startups
“I wouldn't hire someone that couldn't go out and be scrappy and get their hands dirty. That person doesn't belong in an early stage startup anyway.”
Data science teams must be empowered to gather new data
“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.”
Birchbox's catalog recommendation algorithm boosted full-size product conversions by 20%
“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.”
Birchbox trained nearly its entire company workforce to write SQL
“Trained almost the entire company to use SQL.”
Sample selection is Birchbox's highest monthly customer engagement moment
“So every month our customers are able to choose one of their samples. This is our highest engagement moment every month.”
Birchbox saw huge conversion gains by shifting to triggered messaging
“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.”