The building blocks of Faire’s Data Team onboarding

As <a href="https://www.faire.com/careers" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Faire’s</a> marketplace has experienced incredible growth over the last few years, so has the size and scope of our <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/fairewholesale/life/c66edfca-89d5-4cc4-af33-8887b7fad6f5/?viewAsMember=true" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Data team</a>. As we’ve delivered more impact by building additional machine learning models, running more experiments, and evolving our tooling and infrastructure, we’ve had to think about growing our team thoughtfully — balancing onboarding new team members efficiently with scaling best practices to tenured ones. <h1>The challenge with building a standardized Data team onboarding process</h1> Previously, the Data team onboarding at Faire was a decentralized process in which the manager and an onboarding buddy would curate a custom set of resources for each new hire, which was both time-consuming and inconsistent. In the spirit of embracing our core values at Faire, <a href="https://news.faire.com/2021/11/04/what-defines-faire/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">be kind and take ownership</a>, we wanted to build a content library with a set of standardized “classes” that all Data team members could leverage to learn about new topics while minimizing the overhead needed from managers, onboarding buddies, and subject matter experts. However, there was one big challenge: our Data team covers a wide range of skills, tools, and specialties at varying levels of seniority and experience. Building a single onboarding experience would risk being either too simple (leaving out important material for certain Data team members) or too detailed (teaching them skills irrelevant to their role). We needed to structure our curriculum in a way that covered enough breadth for all roles and enough depth for all experience levels, all while being modularized, scalable, and engaging so that each student received a tailored onboarding experience. <a href="https://craft.faire.com/the-building-blocks-of-faires-data-team-onboarding-628229b043b6">Read More</a>