Jo McLenaghan is Head of Data Science at Gousto, where she leads data science and data engineering across customer-facing and operational domains and sits on the leadership teams of two cross-functional tribes. Before Gousto she spent four years at SparkBeyond, an enterprise AI product company, building and leading distributed data science teams across EMEA, North America and APAC, and started out at Accenture after a PhD in physics. She has built and grown data science teams through several cycles of hiring, reshaping and progression, in a global product company and now in-house. Much of her current thinking focuses on how hiring and early-career development must change as agentic tools take on more of the work that used to teach junior data scientists their craft.