We don’t have a strong sense of the Giants’ thought process as they begin their search for a new head of baseball operations / general manager (a role that will, for the rest of this article, be called “Overlord”).
The general shape of the job appears to be exactly as Larry Baer describes with his “next gen” comment someone who can mix “old school” scouting and humanity with “new school” technology, math, and ruthless efficiency. The team might prefer to go with someone who’s held the job before and they seem open to the exact title of the Overlord position, which would theoretically free them to interview a multitude of current GM and Vice Presidents, who are customarily only granted permission to interview with another team if the job would be a promotion.