Professionals across the Bay Area, including tech aficionado Alexandra Eremia who has been featured in Haute Living, understand the common language conundrum all too well. As a methodic executive with a well-proven track record in analytics and product development, she has embraced AI.
“AI literacy is a must-have skill,” says Alex. “AI arrived across all sectors of technology during the Big Data wave in the early 2010s as a transformative force that redesigned industries and modernized business conduct. If you haven’t already please read the MapReduce paper published in 2004 and the Transformer paper published in 2017.”
Alexandra Eremia
For tech professionals, in particular, having a deep understanding of AI and its applications is no longer an option—it has become a skill necessary to thrive. Without it, a business’s communication, administration, and teamwork may fail to evolve within this new landscape. It is the common language that enables teams to collaborate effectively and innovate rapidly. “The easiest common language to use is Key Performance Indicators as most people will have read the Weekly Business Review reports,” says Alex.
Alex’s experience with this gave her a widespread impact on the ML, AI, and generative AI waves. After a couple of years that showcased the power of AI literacy in eCommerce, she put her skills to work at Google, where she played a pivotal role in making the Google Home Mini the Black Friday item of the year in 2017. “Everyone on the team all of a sudden had common eCommerce knowledge because we were speaking about the same issues at the proverbial water cooler.”
Alex’s work demonstrates her impact on consumer and commercial hardware decisions. However, before re-joining Google in 2020, she also founded and successfully exited BingeWith, an audio generation media company whose SaaS customers included Heroku, a Salesforce Company, and Engaging Muscles Massage.
Now, Alex’s story works to teach valuable lessons, particularly in communication. She believes that sharing data makes teams more intelligent, accentuating the importance of clear and effective communication. Her approach to inter-organizational communication has set the standard for managing projects with multiple stakeholders.
Alexandra Eremia
“I really became a sticker for making data charts easily understood. It is easy to make a graph that everyone will be shy around because it’s intimidating and difficult to read. When you don’t have an executive in the room who is willing to slow analytics down, everyone loses,” Alex explains. “Early in my career I saw presentations where this happened many times and thus grew to make sure everyone can walk away knowing the key decision drawn from the data regardless of executive presence.”
Alex Eremia’s journey shows the impact that AI literacy can have. By embracing AI as the common language for your team, you can unlock new, distinct opportunities and drive success in all of your evolving tech endeavors.
