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title: "Metric Definition Specialists to Hire for Your Data Team"
description: "Metric definition specialists who settle the edge cases behind every dispute over a number. Part of a managed data team in Thailand, on your metrics only."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/metric-definition/"
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# Metric definition specialists for your dedicated team.

Metric definition is the precise specification of what a number counts: which events, which filters, which time basis, which exclusions. It is where most disagreements about data start.

## Where metric definition fits in a long-term product team.

Most arguments about conflicting numbers are not about correctness; both calculations are defensible. They differ on details that were never written down: whether refunds are netted, whether internal accounts are excluded, whether the date is order time or settlement time, and whether currency is converted at the transaction or period rate.

Writing the definition down in enough detail to be unambiguous is hard, and it surfaces real business disagreements that were hidden while everyone assumed their own interpretation. That discomfort is the value, not a side effect.

## What your dedicated team does with metric definition.

Definitions have to live somewhere versioned, with a record of when they changed. A metric that quietly changed meaning in March makes every year-on-year comparison wrong, and without a history the break in the trend can't be explained.

Keeping that in version control alongside the transformations is the practice that makes numbers auditable, assigned in [a dedicated data engineering team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-engineering-team/).

## Common metric definition use cases.

* Edge cases written down Refunds, internal accounts and timing decided explicitly, once for everyone.
* Definitions under version control A history of what changed and when, so a broken trend is explainable.
* Disagreements surfaced and settled Making implicit interpretations explicit, which is where the real value sits.

## Adding metric definition skills to your team.

Metric work sits with data analysts, with definitions kept in version control.

Every metric definition specialist we assign works remotely inside your tools as a dedicated member of your team, with the management on our side. It is how companies [hire remote developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) without opening an offshore office of their own.

## Roles that use metric definition

* [Data Analyst Data science](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-science-team/data-analyst/)

## Service areas that use metric definition

* [Data science](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-data-science-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

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## Tell us what you need metric definition for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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