FAQ Demo with Huggingface Gradio

If you think…

“Data scientists never need to worry about selling.”

Absolutely nonsense! 😂

It is probably true though, most of the data scientist colleagues of mine would say:

As a data scientist, I never thought about selling, neither my projects, nor myself (as a personal brand).

One of the biggest challenges I’ve heard from interviewing both senior data leaders and the individual contributors was:

I have a (huge) backlog of POCs waiting to be launched. 😩

One of the biggest motivations I’ve heard from interviewing candidates was:

I crave making a real impact! 💪

How to effectively sell in a matrix environment?

Typically, a data science team is either standalone as a supporting tech function, or embedded within a functional department like data science for Google Ads. It’s also possible that the data science and machine learning teams build the core product and are the core product. Today let us focus on the first scenario where we are mostly supporting the core product.

The challenge is: how to get your projects on the company roadmap while you are not owning the product.

As data scientists, we have great ideas. But venues for proposing our ideas are very limited. Oftentimes, our product…