Summary

Great data scientists have career options and won’t abide bad managers for very long. If you want to retain great data scientists you need to care about your team members, connect their work to the business, and design a diverse, resilient, high-performing team. The best way to build trust is to make sure your team members have interesting projects to work on and that they’re not overburdened by projects with vague requirements or unrealistic timelines. To get the most from a data scientist’s time, they need to have a clear understanding of what the business goal behind the project is. Finally, as a data science manager, you’ll get lots of applications. Take advantage of that to be picky in the right ways.