How do you get work experience in a new product category when you're already senior and expected to be very productive? Ie you're already strong in some data skills but kinda going back to square 1 with something else

Thinking specifically of cloud services, and AI modeling to a lesser extent - if I were just starting out, I'd have more leeway for that initial phase of being slow and exploratory, not having to lead others, etc

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Don’t mind me asking: what is AI modeling?

As for your main question, here’s what worked for me: offer your manager to do free work using that free technology. Wrap it under the guise of you’re inexperienced in this area, but you have the knowledge to pull it off, so let me try doing this for you, FOR FREE! If it fails, it’s a free ride anyway. Yes, we learned some things but more importantly YOU learned.

Everyone has a boss/manager. If you’re the owner of the company, your boss is your client. If you’re c-level, your board is your manager.

One note about this technique:

I once had an employee proposed he writes a new python program to automate some of the work his team is doing (he hasn’t done any projects with python yet, in fact he hasn’t coded in python at all). His proposal required me to guide him to code in python.

I responded: let’s do it! He then asks for a raise to start learning python to deliver on this project.

He’s not asking for the company to sponsor a training: he’s asking for a raise. This is not how it’s done. You take the orientation or training courses on your own first. When you’re asking to do free work, this is to practice what you’ve learned. Your raises come after you have demonstrated you can deliver actual value.

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All the best!

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