Sample Answer
At my last company, I had to explain our lead-scoring pipeline to a sales leadership group of about 15 people. Behind the scenes, it was a Python workflow with heavy feature engineering, a gradient boosting model, and multiple evaluation metrics. Instead of jumping into ROC curves, I framed it as: “We’re ranking leads from 0–100 based on behaviors that historically turned into revenue.” I used one slide to show three concrete examples of leads and why the system scored them differently, tying each feature to something they recognized: email opens, demo attendance, contract size. For metrics, I translated AUC into: “If I show you a good lead and a bad lead, we’ll pick the better one about 90% of the time.” I knew it landed because they started asking targeted questions like, “Can we see scores at the account level?” and later independently used the score thresholds we’d discussed to redesign their playbooks.
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