Data & AI Builder

Data & AI persona

Data & AI Builder

Turns data insights into results and designs AI products and workflows.

Who they are

Data & AI Builders work with data on a day-to-day basis, but they are not in a data role. They deep-dive into the data to find insights that raise revenue or lower cost, and they mainly do that in business intelligence and analytics tools.

Their advantage is domain knowledge. They know how the business actually works, which is exactly what is needed to spot a worthwhile analytics or AI opportunity — and to recognise the ones that will never survive contact with reality.

Builders are the bridge between the User group and the data specialists. When this persona is skilled, ideas reach the data team already sharpened, and AI pilots start from a real problem.

What they need to master

  • Working with data & AI — high focus. Business intelligence and analytical tools, working with AI applications and agents, data and AI governance.
  • Reasoning with data & AI — high. Business analysis, statistical analysis and experimentation.
  • Reading data — solid base. Interpreting insights and visualisations, data-driven decision-making.
  • Communicating with data & AI — medium. Spotting AI opportunities and making the case with data.

Their training track

  • Spotting AI Opportunities
  • Introduction to Agentic AI
  • Data Governance Fundamentals

Depending on the tools your teams work in, we add hands-on tracks such as Tableau, Power BI or SQL. Exercises run on your own data and use cases, so what people build during the training is usable afterwards.

Where this persona sits

Builder sits between Data & AI User and the data specialist roles. Users grow into Builders when they start producing insight instead of only consuming it. Builders who move into leadership need the Data & AI Leader skills: culture, portfolio choices and risk.

Example job titles

Product Manager, Marketing Manager, Finance Manager, Business Analyst

In their own words

I dig into the data myself, and I decide what we do with it.

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What learners say

From people in this role

Quotation marks

The practical exercises were among the strongest parts of the programme. They turn the course from a learning experience into an enablement experience.

Learner, Data & AI School

Our impact in numbers

Course completion rate

79%

vs. ~12% for traditional online courses

Average skill growth

21%

Measured pre vs post — never self-reported

Learners on our platform

10,000+

At organizations like PGGM, Just Eat Takeaway & Jaarbeurs

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The other personas

Most organizations run all three in parallel: the whole workforce moves at once, each group on the skills their own job needs.

Build this persona's skills in your organization

We start with a discovery phase and a skill assessment, then build the track on your own tools, data and use cases. Half an hour is enough to see whether that fits.

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