Jared Forman

Data & Analytics Manager

Jared Forman leads the Data and Analytics organization at Career Karma, a job training marketplace and community helping people reskill and upskill to get a career in tech. His team empowers the company through analytics engineering, tooling, and data-driven operations and strategy execution.

Jared has a passion for scaling marketplace startups as demonstrated through his current work and past experiences at Thumbtack and Change.org. He has spanned a variety of roles over his career, from building fundamental infrastructure to shaping company processes and decision-making with data.

Jared has an MBA from Harvard Business School and holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT in the fields of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.

Day 1

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

The Departed: Managing turnover, tech debt and tribal knowledge

Shinji Kim, Founder & CEO, Select Star

Jared Forman, Data & Analytics Manager, Career Karma

Gabi Steele, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Preql

Abdul Zedan, Global People Operations Leader, Fivetran

We’ve all been there — a system or process is entirely owned by a single individual … and then they leave. The “great resignation” has only aggravated this problem. At this session, data leaders from every industry and team size will share how they work to future-proof their teams and handle the tough challenges no one wants to talk about: what happens to your systems, tools and legacy processes when folks leave.

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Day 2