Career Options

As a data scientist, you'll navigate the vast landscape of information, employing statistical techniques, machine learning algorithms, and analytical skills to uncover hidden patterns and trends. Your role will be not just about interpreting data; will be about shaping the narrative that guides strategic decisions.

As a data analyst, you'll play a pivotal role in transforming raw information into actionable intelligence, guiding crucial business decisions. In this fast-paced field, you'll leverage cutting-edge tools and methodologies to uncover patterns, trends, and opportunities that drive organizational success. From influencing strategy to optimizing operations, data analytics offers a rewarding path for those who enjoy blending technical expertise with strategic thinking.

As a data architect you'll leverage your computer science and design skills to review and analyze the data infrastructure of an organization, plan future databases, and implement solutions to store and manage data for organizations and their users.

Offer guidance and expertise to other companies through a consulting firm. Consultants work in areas where companies often need support, such as marketing, human resources, and finance.

Many graduates use their skills and knowledge to launch their own successful startups. Over the course of your Esade programme, leading experts will teach you how to develop a business idea by analysing the market, assessing viability, securing financing, and more.

Identify unlisted companies with high potential and develop strategies and plans to manage investments in them.

As a researcher, you will analyze and understand customer problems and issues to translate these insights into system requirements; you will write and contribute to proposals, reports, and research papers.

Offer guidance and expertise to other companies through a consulting firm. Consultants work in areas where companies often need support, such as marketing, human resources, and finance.

Hold leadership positions in companies. Manage a specific department or gain experience and work your way up to general manager.  You’ll be prepared to make decisions, lead teams, and organize and coordinate resources.

Help people and companies earn a return on their investments. You’ll become familiar with the markets and the instruments available: financial derivatives, fixed-income investments, currency markets, commodities, stocks, the issue and sale of securities, etc.

Analyse companies, or specific aspects of companies, to offer insights into problems. Companies often need to find out the reasons for a particular issue, the status of their accounts at a particular time, or whether or not they are managing their human resources properly. External auditors take a snapshot of the situation, draw up a report, identify solutions, and establish channels for action.

Apply the expertise you’ve developed during the degree program to guide a functional area of a company or offer external consulting services in:

Marketing: You’ll define and lead the strategies that a company will follow to make its product stand out in the market.

Finance: You’ll have the training you need to manage a company’s economic resources, assess transactions, establish financial policies, etc.

Operations: You’ll manage the resources and coordinate the teams that make up the chain that delivers the company’s product or service to its customers.

Human Resources: You’ll select the best talent for a company, design a professional growth plan for new recruits, develop strategies to tap their full potential, and more.

Digital Innovation: You’ll oversee the management of corporate information processes, both internally (among employees, teams and departments) and externally (with clients, suppliers and external collaborators). You’ll also lead the company’s innovation and digitisation projects such as developing company or product websites, creating apps or designing a corporate image.

Artificial Intelligence: this specialization goes beyond the ability to interpret the enormous amounts of data available to managers, and includes designing the artificial intelligence strategies that generate the most appropriate data in each sector, company or project.