What successful CoE do different
CRO Weekly #287
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Welcome to a fresh CRO weekly newsletter. In this edition 5 articles and 5 new jobs.
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Interesting reads
What successful CoE do different
Most Centers of Excellence become bureaucratic graveyards. Here’s what the successful ones do differently.
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When to run switchback experiments
Adapting experimental design to resource constraints. When you can’t run user-level randomization or geo-based experiments, switchback designs offer a workable alternative for estimating causal effects.
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How to experiment and grow at Storytel
Storytel recently had the pleasure to host Lucia van den Brink for a very insightful session on experimentation at Storytel. The biggest eye-opener?
It’s incredibly hard to guess which variant will win a test. We often think we know what our users want, but Lucia showed us exactly why data beats intuition every single time. While consistent A/B testing is a challenging habit to build, the rewards are clearly worth the effort.
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Simone Neeling: My Experimentation Career Journey
In a large corporate organization, it’s often more important to focus on reducing risk than waiting until you’re 100% sure something will work.
Job opportunities
Looking for a new challenge in experimentation? Find 100+ experimentation related jobs on ExperimentationJobs.com. These jobs are from all over the world, on-site, fully remote or hybrid. Take a look and start pivoting your career.
This week’s featured roles:
Staff Data Scientist, New Subjects at Duolingo (Pittsburgh, USA)
Senior Product Data Scientist at Catawiki (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Product Analyst at bol.com (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Teamlead Experimentation & Customer Insights at Bonprix (Hamburg, Germany)
Senior Product Analyst – Consumer Product at Delivery Hero (Berlin, Germany)
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