Director of Data Science OKR Examples

Create a community and knowledge sharing platform

The goal of this objective is to make our current knowledge transferable

• Release a new knowledge sharing platform by end of December
• Develop 5 metrics and measure the learning engagement
• Run 10 knowledge sharing workshops on the latest ML trends

Hire and onboard 3 new data scientists

The goal of this objective is to increase the size of the data science team

• Complete min. 30 interviews
• Shortlist and hire 3 candidates not later than the end of October
• All candidates have finished onboarding by the end of November

Complete new data lake platform architecture for product

The goal of this objective is to update our current data repository

• Complete a design of new architecture to save up to 20% of costs
• Present the architecture during workshops to the dev team
• Finish and submit the plat for release

Hire 3 new ML engineers

To hire top talents and 3 new ML engineers to improve the company's data science capabilities

• Successfully onboard 3 new ML engineers within 3 months
• Increase team productivity by 10% within 6 months after hiring new engineers
• Achieve a retention rate of 95% for new ML engineers within 1 year

Increase model accuracy by 5%

To improve the accuracy of the company's machine learning models

• Implement new feature engineering techniques and regularization methods to improve model accuracy
• Conduct regular model evaluations and fine-tuning to maintain high accuracy
• Achieve a model accuracy of at least 90% on all major machine learning tasks

Improve team communication and collaboration

To increase collaboration and knowledge sharing within the data science team

• Implement a regular team meeting schedule for knowledge sharing and collaboration
• Encourage team members to share their work and findings with the rest of the team through presentations and workshops
• Achieve a team collaboration score of at least 85% as measured by team surveys and feedback