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Data Science Management

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Manager

Individual contributor route

Technical or professional depth, without managing people.

This family has no individual-contributor ladder.

Management route

Managing people. It is not the step above the individual route: it is a different job and asks for different evidence.

  1. Supervisor / Team Lead, Data ScienceM0Optional frontline layer
  2. Manager, Data ScienceM1
  3. Senior Manager, Data ScienceM2
  4. Director, Data ScienceM3
  5. Senior Director, Data ScienceM4
  6. AVP / Head of Data ScienceM5Optional executive layer
  7. Vice President, Data ScienceM6
  8. Senior Vice President, Data ScienceM7

Source: SFIA; PMI; Microsoft Careers