The skills this job leans on most
- 1Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidenceNeeded in 2 of 2 tasks
- 2Planning delivery dependencies and the critical pathNeeded in 1 of 2 tasks
- 3Verifying benefits realisation and attributionNeeded in 1 of 2 tasks
All 2 tasks, where people get stuck and all 43 skills
Tasks
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Present data, AI, risk and performance evidence to the executive committee or board and record the decisions taken
Where people get stuck
All skills
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Facilitating group decisions using disputed evidence
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Variance analysis
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
Paths to start
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidenceNeeded in 2 of 4 tasks
- 2Planning delivery dependencies and the critical pathNeeded in 1 of 4 tasks
- 3Verifying benefits realisation and attributionNeeded in 1 of 4 tasks
All 4 tasks, where people get stuck and all 83 skills
Tasks
- Define and govern a KPI metric contract
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Maintain a data and AI risk register and record risk treatment and acceptance
- Present data, AI, risk and performance evidence to the executive committee or board and record the decisions taken
Where people get stuck
All skills
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Analysing error patterns and failure modes in models and AI systems
- Applying data classification and handling rules
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Assessing data-driven fairness and bias
- Assessing data-service continuity and recoverability
- Assessing privacy risk through data protection impact assessments
- Assessing supplier dependency, data-handling and exit risk
- Assigning and operating data ownership and stewardship
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Calculating and verifying KPIs against their specification
- Classifying AI uses against regulatory obligations
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing efficient and reproducible investigations
- Designing semantic models for governed analytics
- Diagnosing data quality exceptions
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Establishing and declaring data grain
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Evaluating fitness and full cost of AI-assisted work
- Evaluating responsible AI use risks
- Exercising human oversight of automated and AI outputs
- Explaining control types, dependencies and compensating controls
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Facilitating group decisions using disputed evidence
- Governing shared data definitions
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Identifying keys and testing referential integrity
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Investigating anomalies
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether and how to use AI for a task
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Monitoring model fitness and drift
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Preserving incident evidence and timeline
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and containing suspected personal data breaches
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising cybersecurity threats to data work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Recognising personal data and privacy duties
- Recognising statutory incident reporting duties and deadlines
- Reconciling conflicting reports
- Repairing data defects reversibly under owner authority
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Setting and reviewing reliability objectives and error budgets for data and AI services
- Specifying BI measure semantics: additivity, aggregation and time
- Specifying decision-useful reports
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Validating records by matching, recomputation and end-to-end tracing
- Variance analysis
- Writing data quality rules
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
Diagnostic Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
Resolve contradictory evidence and find, verify and prevent the causes of business and data anomalies.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
The skills this job leans on most
- 1Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidenceNeeded in 2 of 4 tasks
- 2Planning delivery dependencies and the critical pathNeeded in 1 of 4 tasks
- 3Verifying benefits realisation and attributionNeeded in 1 of 4 tasks
All 4 tasks, where people get stuck and all 83 skills
Tasks
- Define and govern a KPI metric contract
- Prioritise and rebalance an investment portfolio against value, capacity and benefit evidence
- Maintain a data and AI risk register and record risk treatment and acceptance
- Present data, AI, risk and performance evidence to the executive committee or board and record the decisions taken
Where people get stuck
All skills
- Planning delivery dependencies and the critical path
- Prioritising work by evidenced value, cost, risk and confidence
- Verifying benefits realisation and attribution
- Analysing error patterns and failure modes in models and AI systems
- Applying data classification and handling rules
- Appraising options on a common incremental basis against a do-nothing baseline
- Assessing data source credibility and fitness for a question
- Assessing data-driven fairness and bias
- Assessing data-service continuity and recoverability
- Assessing privacy risk through data protection impact assessments
- Assessing supplier dependency, data-handling and exit risk
- Assigning and operating data ownership and stewardship
- Building cohort and retention analyses with correct denominators
- Building decision-focused reports and dashboards
- Calculating and verifying KPIs against their specification
- Classifying AI uses against regulatory obligations
- Communicating quantified uncertainty
- Communicating sensitive or unwelcome analytical findings
- Comparing options against explicit decision criteria
- Comparing periods consistently
- Constructing clear and honest charts
- Defining measurable outcomes and leading indicators
- Designing and comparing decision scenarios
- Designing and versioning data contracts for consumers
- Designing decision-oriented research with customers, users or employees
- Designing efficient and reproducible investigations
- Designing semantic models for governed analytics
- Diagnosing data quality exceptions
- Diagnosing misleading data visualisations
- Diagnosing operational handoffs and flow
- Disclosing AI contribution to professional work
- Eliciting the decision behind an analytical request
- Escalating unresolved risks with evidence and clear ownership
- Establishing and declaring data grain
- Estimating quantities and differences with intervals
- Evaluating and improving chart accessibility
- Evaluating fitness and full cost of AI-assisted work
- Evaluating responsible AI use risks
- Exercising human oversight of automated and AI outputs
- Explaining control types, dependencies and compensating controls
- Explaining technical work to accountable non-specialists
- Facilitating group decisions using disputed evidence
- Governing shared data definitions
- Identifying and quantifying decision downside and exposure
- Identifying keys and testing referential integrity
- Independently checking analytical conclusions and claims
- Interpreting correlation without inferring cause
- Interpreting customer feedback and qualitative evidence
- Investigating anomalies
- Judging whether a change exceeds normal variation
- Judging whether and how to use AI for a task
- Judging whether external evidence applies to the decision context
- Judging whether uncertainty changes the decision
- Maintaining a risk register with owners, triggers and responses
- Making accountable decisions under uncertainty
- Mapping stakeholders' decisions, constraints and needs
- Monitoring model fitness and drift
- Presenting and defending evidence-based recommendations to decision-makers
- Preserving incident evidence and timeline
- Rating risks against appetite and choosing proportionate treatment
- Reading business metrics
- Reading charts and dashboards correctly, including their state
- Reasoning about systems, feedback and second-order effects
- Recognising and containing suspected personal data breaches
- Recognising and resolving ethical conflicts in data and AI work
- Recognising cybersecurity threats to data work
- Recognising misleading numerical claims
- Recognising personal data and privacy duties
- Recognising statutory incident reporting duties and deadlines
- Reconciling conflicting reports
- Repairing data defects reversibly under owner authority
- Revising prior decisions when evidence changes
- Selecting charts for evidence and decisions
- Setting and reviewing reliability objectives and error budgets for data and AI services
- Specifying BI measure semantics: additivity, aggregation and time
- Specifying decision-useful reports
- Testing competing explanations with discriminating evidence
- Testing investment business cases under uncertainty
- Tracing data lineage upstream and downstream
- Validating records by matching, recomputation and end-to-end tracing
- Variance analysis
- Writing data quality rules
- Writing evidence-led findings and auditable recommendations with their limits
Paths to start
Skill Path
Data Literacy for Business Decisions
Judge whether a business claim from a table, KPI, chart or dashboard really holds up.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
Skill Path
Diagnostic Investigation and Root Cause Analysis
Resolve contradictory evidence and find, verify and prevent the causes of business and data anomalies.
- Modules
- 5 open
- Practice data
- Raket Parts
About the role
Directs the whole product Function or several Heads and owns its budget and strategy. Sets product strategy and funding across portfolios and answers to the executive for the Function's results. Differs from the Head of Product in balancing investment between portfolios rather than running one.
Also called VP Product
