The Emerging Role of a Data Product Manager

Data Con LA 2020 Description HopSkipDrive, a startup focused on youth mobility, wanted to invest Data Culture to ultimately improve the abilities of its entire staff to quickly make data driven business decisions that created positive change. The key to achieving an effective Data Culture was treating internal data like a product, hiring a Data Product Manager to lead this initiative and create targeted solutions for specific data utilization problems. This talk by HopSkipDrive's Data Product Manager, Cindy Lin, will cover the initial job description, the steps she took once onboard including the process of creating and executing the HopSkipDrive Data Culture model and roadmap, and the outcomes she has achieved so far. *What led to hiring this role and why was Cindy hired? *Once onboard, retaining executive buy in *Establishing the data culture model and roadmap *Executive of the data culture strategy *Impact of the above Speaker Cindy Lin, HopSkipDrive, Data Product Manager