Jessica Webb Kennedy

AMA: Atlassian Former Marketing Director (Trello), Jessica Webb on Brand Strategy

June 16 @ 10:00AM PT
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
Brand is such an important part of product marketing. Developing a strong brand, voice, and tone for your product or company lends itself to everything you do from launch...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
At a high level, I think it's essential for all teams involved to understand the ultimate goal of whatever product or feature they are launching - meaning what is the pro...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
PMM wears so many hats it's important to recognize what is needed at any stage of a company. When first coming into an organization as the first PMM I think the most impo...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
As stated above, PMM wears so many hats it's important to recognize what is needed at any stage of a company. When first coming into an organization as the first PMM I th...
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What frameworks, methodologies or resources do you recommend to define and develop a brand?
At small companies, Product Marketers are often the ones to identify the need for a more cohesive voice and brand. What tools can we leverage to help guide our companies through developing a brand?
Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
There are tons of ways to do this but they all center around defining the personality of your brand/product, this means understanding how you are perceived by others and ...
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How does your company define the difference between product marketing and integrated / brand / customer marketing?
Do you see value in having both roles, e.g. Integrated team works more closely with the creative team on seasonal/holiday/brand campaigns whereas Product Marketing works more closely with the Product team on product launches, user research/insights, positioning strategy, etc. I have found it challenging for Product Marketing to own all of this, and often see different skill sets from marketers who are great at creative brand campaigns vs. PMMs who are skilled at positioning a new product and bringing it to market.
Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
I think there is a ton of value in having these teams work closely but separated into specific pods. As you noted, there are different skillsets here and they can be even...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
Hone in on the skills you have that align with what PMMs are asked to be good at - I'm SURE you already have a lot of them from your experience, which seems very relevant...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
I see the PMMs job as connecting the product teams to end-users and to the market. PMMs have a pulse on what is going on competitively, what is trending, and brand percep...
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