People of Seer: Meet James Corr

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People of Seer with James Corr

Welcome backmost to People of Seer: San Diego Edition! In this series, you’ll get to conscionable our squad and larn astir what makes them the champion astir (in our humble opinion).

💡 James Corr, Senior Team Lead – Analytics, budding Real-Estate Investor, Chef, and NBA Commentator

Q&A with James:

What are immoderate of your passions extracurricular of your enactment astatine Seer?

I americium precise funny successful existent property and it has go a existent passionateness of mine.

In the agelong term, I privation to physique retired my ain existent property investing institution wherever we could ain tons of properties and supply equitable and ethical lodging for each walks of life. Right now, we’re moving connected making our archetypal location purchase.

I besides emotion cooking. I truly similar knowing the wherefore down cooking, The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt is astonishing for that. I bask making antithetic recipes from a batch of antithetic cuisines from Japanese, Thai and Indian to French and American. My wife, friends and immoderate Seer folks each pitched successful and got maine a Smoker which I’ve had a batch of amusive learning to use.

Music and hoops are besides large interests of excavation that I could speech a batch much about!

How did you extremity up successful integer marketing?

Well, I went to Drexel successful Philly due to the fact that I wanted to spell to a schoolhouse successful the metropolis but besides due to the fact that of their 5 twelvemonth concern program. It is simply a co-op truthful you bash mean schoolhouse for 2 of the years but past you person a full-time occupation for a important information of your clip determination arsenic well.

During that time, I worked astatine Estee Lauder successful their proviso concatenation and manufacturing facility, astatine the Mercantile Exchange level successful Manhattan, and past besides moving successful the backstage wealthiness absorption manufacture successful philly.

That acquisition was absorbing due to the fact that I similar numbers and I’m analytical, but I realized however overmuch I didn’t similar finance. The full acquisition didn’t consciousness similar it aligned with maine arsenic a person.

So I did immoderate reflecting and had conversations with my mentors and started reasoning selling could beryllium a bully mode to spell for me. I past did a 4th internship abstracted from the co-op programme astatine a tiny selling bureau successful Philly. That truly solidified my involvement successful selling and from determination went connected to Seer and haven’t looked back.

What’s it been similar seeing Seer mature implicit your tenure astatine Seer?

I’ve been astatine Seer for astir 7 and fractional years now.

It’s been truly interesting. When I started astatine Seer, determination were lone astir 8 of america connected the Analytics team. And Larry, who was the Director of SEO and present is the VP of Digital, was the caput of the Analytics department. We past went connected to physique the part successful a batch of antithetic ways and it’s been truly breathtaking to beryllium a portion of that.

I’ve seen aggregate iterations of our section and Seer arsenic a whole, and I’ve been capable to turn up successful a batch of ways.

For example, I was moving connected this 1 relationship arsenic an Associate erstwhile I archetypal joined Seer and present I’m overseeing the Analytics squad connected that relationship arsenic a Senior Team Lead Today. So there’s immoderate chill commencement communicative arcs. I’ve been fortunate to enactment with immoderate large clients and large squad members on the way.

What keeps you astatine Seer and keeps you excited astir your work?

Number 1 for maine is the spot and autonomy that I’m offered astatine Seer, and the information that it has ne'er wavered.

The enactment squad astatine Seer wants to fto radical attack their enactment the mode they privation to and to are unfastened to america getting it done successful tons of antithetic ways. That’s thing that is besides truly challenging astatine times! But it is simply a benignant of moving that fits good with maine and that I appreciate.

Secondly, I admit the transparent connection astatine Seer. Everything from sharing fiscal information with the squad to discussing antithetic tests they are moving to effort to marque things amended for the team, I’ve ever felt similar I’ve been well-informed arsenic acold arsenic decisions astatine the company.

I besides person to say, if the radical weren’t the radical that they are, I wouldn’t inactive beryllium here. We don’t enactment with assholes and we don’t prosecute assholes. We enactment with truly smart, intelligent radical that I’ve been capable to larn from and enactment with.

As a Senior Team Lead, you person to marque a batch of decisions that interaction our clients and team. What is that similar astatine Seer?

Seer makes it casual to bash the close happening versus doing what I deliberation a batch of businesses successful the advertizing manufacture would bash due to the fact that “that’s the mode things are done.”

Whether it’s having the hard speech with clients, moving with squad members to assistance facilitate their intelligence health, helping squad members modulation to different occupation if that’s what they are aiming for, I’ve ne'er had to consciousness atrocious astir a concern determination that we’re making.

On a lawsuit task it mightiness be, “Okay, well, we didn’t usage each of these dollars for this contract, however tin we leverage that to make worth oregon springiness a refund to the client? ” I ever cognize those are my options.

I consciousness assured making those decisions and having those conversations with our clients due to the fact that I cognize what Seer stands for and I cognize enactment volition person my backmost successful those conversations.

What’s thing caller you’ve been getting funny successful oregon practicing much lately?

Well precocious I’ve been getting backmost into drawing.

My woman precocious gave maine a sketchbook and this large pencil kit and it’s been amusive learning to usage each the antithetic tools.

I’ve been trying to bash 1 “no surface night” a week and drafting has been portion of what I bash connected those nights. I really usage to bash a bully magnitude of illustration earlier college, truthful it’s been amusive to get backmost into it!