What are your thoughts on sales? I will never forget my first day picking up the phone to call potential customers pitching the AI solution my co-founders, and I were building— in short, it was very humbling. That day gave me tremendous respect for my Sales colleagues’ tenacity and insight into how they could make me a better data professional. Specifically, Sales professionals are typically the first contact points with customers our data solutions will impact. Thus, by staying in contact with Sales, I can listen to the pain points that are surfaced and use that information to determine how to position my data projects to best provide value.
Love this insight "The second one is I think, just data engineering teams more specifically, tend to live in a more reactive mode."
I think that Data engineers deserve some of their time back through proactive solutions!