DataGen Europe
#11 - Scopely: Building a 50-person Data Team in Europe
Jonathan Palmer is the former VP of Data at Scopely, a US-based unicorn behind hit mobile games such as Monopoly GO!. He grew and led the data team at Scopely to 50 people, mostly based in Barcelona. Before that, Jon was Product Director for Core Data Services at King, the Swedish unicorn behind the hit game Candy Crush. He was also Head of BI at GoCardless, the British unicorn. And he is now field CTO at Omni, the BI & AI Analytics platform. We cover: Workstream #1: scaling the data organization from 10 to 50 people (main teams, organization…) Workstream #2: building a modern data stack to improve performance, simplify hiring, and support hypergrowth Workstream #3: evolving roles, developing leaders, and adapting the organization as the company scaled The biggest challenges: imposter syndrome, managing change, and cultural differences RESOURCES - Jon ’s Linkedin profile - The book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami CHAPTERS 00:00 What's Scopely? 01:52 The context when he arrived 02:41 Organizing the data team 08:45 Building a Modern Data Stack 13:44 Adapting the team to new needs 15:37 Fighting the imposter syndrome 16:57 Leading a big team 20:23 Managing cultural differences 23:15 Why he joined Omni 25:00 Jon’s favorite resources 26:13 His best advice OTHER EPISODES YOU SHOULD LOVE #8 - Marshmallow: Building the data analytics team at a unicorn #4 - Ex-VP of Product at Looker, he launched Omni, the challenger in Business Intelligence #1 - BlaBlaCar : Managing 50 Data People with Manu, VP Data SUPPORT THE PODCAST FOR FREE 1/ Subscribe 2/ Leave a 5 stars review on Apple Podcasts here Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
