Navigating a Data Career: Academia, Data Science, Product Management

Jesse Day on November 17, 2020

After a career in academia as a climate scientist, Jesse joined Next Caller as their first full-time data scientist, where he designed machine learning for phone fraud detection and eventually became Product Manager. Jesse is now Technical Product Manager at Noom, where he runs the data engineering team and helps Noom use data to optimize their decision-making. Jesse shares how he navigated the transition out of academia, and again from data science to product management.