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Jessica Lachs

Jessica is Vice President of analytics and data science at door Dash

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Keep analytics reporting centrally, but mirror partner-team structure with pods that share their goals

Name your worst-case experiences, set a team's goal on eradicating them, and hunt for the data you don't have

Goal people on the outcome, not the job description, and let them cross any function to reach it

Goal the team on self-directed insight and use hackathons to stop exploratory work being eaten by inbound asks

Goal on simple short-term inputs you can prove drive the long-term output you actually want

Convert every lever in the business into one shared unit so cross-team tradeoffs become arithmetic

Use a real historical company problem as the case, then test soft skills the candidate doesn't know you're testing

Never say no to a request — show the three things it displaces and let the asker decide

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