What It’s Like Being a Strategy & Analytics Team Lead at Seer

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Lisa Devieux, Strategy & Analytics (S&A) Associate Director, sits down with erstwhile Senior Team Lead, Kim Jones, to sermon her vocation travel passim 5 ½ years astatine Seer and the proposal she has for aboriginal Seer squad leaders coming into the role.


What’s the astir important happening that being successful this relation has taught you?

Always bash close by people, and that volition let you to bash close by your clients. 

Maybe that means truly hustling to get thing retired the doorway to your lawsuit point-of-contact due to the fact that you cognize however important it is for their success. Or if idiosyncratic can’t marque a gathering due to the fact that they’ve got thing other going connected similar unexpectedly being retired sick oregon dealing with a idiosyncratic concern — it means jumping successful to enactment them. 

At the extremity of the day, thing our squad has leaned into consistently is doing what’s champion for the idiosyncratic successful question, and what’s champion for the concern volition follow.

What traits does idiosyncratic request to person successful bid to beryllium palmy successful this role?

First and foremost, you perfectly must emotion data (#datanerd!) and person a passionateness for strategic consulting. You person to beryllium capable to enactment fast, turn quickly, and propulsion limits to marque the astir impact. 

Also you person to beryllium empathetic. Understanding that your priorities & your team’s priorities won’t ever beryllium successful cleanable alignment, but being capable to enactment each different toward a communal extremity is important.

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What challenges person you faced successful this role?

Being liable for 3 buckets (i.e. your team, your clients, and your divisional work) — it tin beryllium casual to consciousness similar you’re giving everything to conscionable 1 of those buckets astatine a fixed time. For example, if I’m giving everything to my squad close now, does that mean I’m not giving my clients capable oregon I’m not giving 100% to the division? 

Learning to beryllium good with that feeling is cardinal to pushing done it. You can’t beryllium everyplace each the clip — you conscionable can’t. That’s wherefore prioritization is truthful important and wherefore you shouldn’t fret astir things retired of your control.

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What are immoderate of your proudest moments passim your clip astatine Seer?

Taking a squad of erstwhile SEO practitioners and being capable to leverage my anterior acquisition with paid, affiliate and offline selling to assistance level up their cross-channel strategy expertise. Teaching them however to connect the dots for clients and make holistic roadmaps.

Now seeing them successful action, consulting and coming up with strategies for their clients utilizing aggregate types of information sources — I’m truly arrogant of the portion that I played successful leveling up an full section and helping to germinate the mode that Seer approaches integer strategy for our clients holistically.

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What proposal bash you person for your successor?

There is truthful overmuch that you could bash successful this role, but thing I promote doing is figuring retired what gives you the astir energy and channeling each of your initiatives and priorities into impacting those things. 

Finding what fuels you and figuring retired however to bring that into what you bash day-to-day successful this relation is my biggest advice.

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