Experimental Mind: Iteration, Future Value, Build vs Buy, Traits, Jobs
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👋 Hi, in this week's Experimental Mind newsletter 6 articles and 27 jobs. Enjoy!
1. Is experimenting for iteration or innovation? 🔁
David Mannheim: "... experimentation is seen as better for versioning because it's stuck there; for most companies. Only until we really understand what AB testing can give us can we use it for the purpose it was intended; for innovative leaps forward." Read the article
2. How Airbnb measures future value to standardize tradeoffs 🔮
Interesting approach to try to capture 'Future Incremental Value'. Read the article
3. The Importance of a Culture of Experimentation ♾️
Jonny Longden: "True innovation in science and engineering happens because the opinion is taken out of the equation with experimentation." Read the article
4. Eric Weber on build vs buy 🏗️🆚💰
The question all Data Product Managers must navigate (true). Read the article
5. Farfetch’s Luis Trindade on how to build a strong experimentation culture ✨
"When company leaders incentivize their teams to keep delivering at all costs, without measuring the impact of their solutions, only focusing on the milestone delivery and not focusing on having the right solution for their customers – this couldn’t work." Read the article
6. Characteristics of high-performing experimentation teams ⚡
What traits are required to excel at experimentation? Hypothesis driven, Structured learners, Express humility ... Read the article to learn about the other 10 traits.
7. Interesting job opportunities 🔥
This week's featured jobs:
Director, Product Growth & Conversion at DuckDuckGo, remote
Sr. UI Engineer, Experimentation Platform at Netflix, USA remote
Director Experimentation at CNN, USA remote
Or check out the other 24 opportunities on the job board. Let me know if you have a job you want to get featured here.
😀 Fun of the week
“Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
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