Mathias is Head of Data for Marketing at N26, the Berlin-based neobank valued at over $9 billion. He joined as a Senior Data Analyst in May 2020 and has since scaled the team to 12 people.

We cover :

🔥 His journey to becoming Head of Data for Marketing at N26

🔥 His main projects: Marketing Mix Modeling, User Value Modeling, Data Governance & Data Quality

🔥 The data stack at N26: AWS, Snowplow, dbt, Redshift, Metabase…

🔥 His main challenges: scale-up volatility and the classic imposter syndrome

📚 RESOURCES

- Mathias’s LinkedIn profile

- The book of Zhamak Dehghani Data Mesh : Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

- The book of Joe Reis & Matt Housley Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data

- The book of Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford The Phoenix Project

- The book of Gene Kim The DevOps Handbook

- The book of Gene Kim The Unicorn Project

- The book of Gene Kim, Jez Humble and Nicole Forsgren PhD Accelerate

🎬 CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction to N26

03:25 How he became Head of Data for Marketing at N26

10:49 1st project: implementing a Marketing Mix Model

17:36 2nd project: building a User Value Model

20:57 3rd project: Data Governance & Quality

23:37 The data stack at N26

25:16 The biggest challenges

29:29 What’s next: decision automation

31:11 Mathias’s favorite resources

32:14 Why he loves working in data

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