Demand Generation Career Path

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Tamara Niesen
Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMOAugust 26
Creating an environment where we have trust, pysocholigical safety, and fun is key, but it's trust that allows team members to have autonomy and agency. Celebrating wins toegther, celebrating mistakes (fail forward!), and removing roadblocks are foundational to building healthy teams.   Someth......Read More
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Sruthi Kumar
Sruthi Kumar
Notion Account-Based MarketingAugust 10
I start making a list of what I want in my next role during my current role. I don't wait until anything is bad or tough, I just start compiling the list when inspiration hits me. (ex. Own a pipeline number, or report straight into the CMO).  For the role itself I look for some of the items I ......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Counterpart Marketing LeadJanuary 26
I recommend you first check out my answer related to this at the link below. One incredibly meaningful aspect of sales that is highly applicable in demand generation is having a deep understanding of your customers. The sales and marketing relationship is critical. I am of the belief you have a u......Read More
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Tamara Niesen
Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMOAugust 26
Network and seek advice. Getting to know people in the field, genuinely asking about their roles, responsibilites, what keeps them up at night, recommendations on where you might learn more is the best starting point.  In addition to that, get in on these Sharebird AMAs, Demand Gen podcasts, tak......Read More
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Sruthi Kumar
Sruthi Kumar
Notion Account-Based MarketingAugust 10
I think coming from field marketing has been a huge driving force into helping me getting a demand gen leadership role.  Field marketing opened up doors for me to: 1) Build massive integrated campaigns that coordinated with the whole GTM team (Sales, SDR, CSM) to come together to pull these o......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Counterpart Marketing LeadJanuary 26
I wouldn’t say these perspectives are exclusive to demand generation, but they certainly are imperative to the role. This could also be highly effective across any org. * Curiosity. If you’ve read some of my other responses, you’ll notice a common thread of curiosity. I believe it is critica......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Counterpart Marketing LeadJanuary 26
I actually started my career in sales and transitioned over to marketing and demand generation. What made me decide to make the switch? Personally, it felt like a better fit for me. I’m more on the analytical and creative side than sales afforded me. However, sales did give me a unique perspectiv......Read More
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Tamara Niesen
Tamara Niesen
WooCommerce CMOAugust 26
This is a difficult question to answer, I would love more context in order to respond thoughtfully, but I will share this- a work enironment that is build around psychological safety, one that encourages healthy debate and conflict is (IMO), the envinroment that breeds the most creative and succe......Read More
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Eric Martin
Eric Martin
Stack Overflow Vice President, Demand GenerationSeptember 7
Billboards, just like most people in the industry I'd imagine. I love OOH because good OOH is fun and creative. But it's an investment you really don't need until you truly need to invest in your brand to establish/maintain a leadership position or differentiate from the competition. I look forwa......Read More
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Erika Barbosa
Erika Barbosa
Counterpart Marketing LeadJanuary 26
From my perspective, you can transition to demand generation quite easily. Depending on where you are transitioning from and the associated level, this can help determine where you could land. This is absolutely doable though. I recommend doing some research and educating yourself on what aspe......Read More
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