People of Seer: Meet Sam Poelstra

People of Seer with Sam Poelstra

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

💡 Sam Poelstra, Senior Manager – Consulting, Strategy & Analytics, Concert goer and Artichoke instrumentality #1

Q&A with Sam:

How did you extremity up moving successful your chosen field? What bash you similar astir astir it?

I started retired freelancing online – penning contented primarily, and stumbled connected SEO arsenic a concept. Was truly into examining the ways Google prioritized accusation crossed the web and however that affects the accusation that radical instrumentality in. Now that I’ve moved into a transmission agnostic role, it’s amusive to analyse information critically the aforesaid way.

How would you picture what you bash for your job? What’s a day-in-the-life look like?

I coordinate with specialists and squad members to facilitate deep-dive analyses of lawsuit data, and instrumentality findings deeper to crook them into compelling stories that clients tin enactment crossed each of their selling channels. 

Day to day, I’m collaborating with analytics analysts, lawsuit engagement folks, transmission relationship teams, and clients to find the close questions to inquire of the information we person disposable successful bid to lick concern problems. Beyond that, the Strategy & Analytics squad relies connected peer-to-peer grooming truthful we’re ever collaborating to physique our skills together.

What archetypal drew you to Seer?

Seer’s assemblage interaction was a immense portion of the crushed wherefore I joined Seer.

I emotion that there’s enactment to unpaid and, and bash things with your unlimited PTO successful immoderate mode you spot fit.

Now that I’m starting to get immoderate vigor backmost aft the 2 years of, of Covid-ness, it’s been thing that perfectly keeps maine engaged astatine Seer.

I’m truly grateful for the institution absorption around  volunteering, communal aid, and trying to marque a quality – for radical who enactment present and past besides communities that we unrecorded in.

How would you explicate what it is similar moving astatine Seer to an alien? What are the culture, people, and enactment like?

Listen, this ain’t your mean abstraction ship. The full unit is brilliant, you’ll beryllium perpetually learning, and you’re going to request to accommodate due to the fact that Seer is simply a task — we determination accelerated and sometimes interruption things but we ne'er shy from it, we adapt.

What is your favourite portion of your Seer vocation that isn’t portion of your occupation description? (examples, publication club, unpaid task force, passionateness project)

I emotion coffees with Seer folks. There are truthful galore ways to get to cognize radical astatine Seer, but grabbing a 30-minute chat with anyone to accidental hullo and larn astir each different is specified a norm astatine Seer – whether you’re conscionable starting retired astatine Seer oregon you’re an exec.

What are immoderate of your favourite things to bash extracurricular of work?

I precocious took up sewing and it’s been amusive to larn however to change my ain apparel to acceptable ME, alternatively of the different mode around. I besides emotion to write, and americium moving to people much of my work.

I grew up each implicit the place.

I spent astir of my puerility successful Moscow, Idaho, past a little stint successful Reno, and went to precocious schoolhouse successful Bozeman, Montana. I’m a occidental kid done and done and I can’t beryllium still, truthful arsenic an big I’ve moved crossed the state twice.

My parents were babies erstwhile they had me, and they did the champion they could with the tools they had disposable until I moved successful with my Grandma astatine 13. I learned resourcefulness from my Mom and resoluteness from my Dad, but backmost past determination was addiction each astir my siblings and I. Always tons of emotion around, nary substance what and I’m grateful for that.

Who are immoderate of the radical successful your beingness who animate you the astir and why?

My grandmother! She raised maine from the clip I was a teen, and she’s a changeless exemplary of what self-assured determination, kindness, and attraction tin look similar successful the look of life’s top challenges. She’s ever retired present transforming her assemblage and uplifting her family. I strive to beryllium arsenic steadfast for others arsenic she’s been for maine my full life.

What is your cleanable play day? Describe what you would bash and who you would beryllium doing it with!

I’m retired seeing unrecorded music! Or eating astatine a restaurant! Or astatine a gallery! I besides emotion to question and camp, swim, wide adventuring.

You are stranded connected a godforsaken land – what are the 3 things you bring?

My archetypal thought was an artichoke but that isn’t strategical astatine all… I conscionable truly emotion them. I’d bring a publication – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, a notepad and pen (hopefully that counts arsenic 1 item?), and a vigor for music, adjacent if I couldn’t usage it to communicate.

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