🇪🇺 #291 - Scopely: Building a 50-person Data Team in Europe

Jonathan Palmer is the former VP of Data at Scopely, a US-based unicorn behind hit mobile games such as Monopoly GO!.

He grew and led the data team at Scopely to 50 people, mostly based in Barcelona.

Before that, Jon was Product Director for Core Data Services at King, the Swedish unicorn behind the hit game Candy Crush. He was also Head of BI at GoCardless, the British unicorn. And he is now field CTO at Omni, the BI & AI Analytics platform.

We cover:

🔥 Workstream #1: scaling the data organization from 10 to 50 people (main teams, organization…)

🔥 Workstream #2: building a modern data stack to improve performance, simplify hiring, and support hypergrowth

🔥 Workstream #3: evolving roles, developing leaders, and adapting the organization as the company scaled

🔥 The biggest challenges: imposter syndrome, managing change, and cultural differences

📚 RESOURCES

- Jon’s Linkedin profile

- The book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami

🎬 CHAPTERS