Kelly Kipkalov

AMA: Carta Vice President Product Marketing, Kelly Kipkalov on Market Research

May 22 @ 9:00AM PT
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👋 Kelly Kipkalov
Hi all, I'm Kelly Kipkalov, Vice President Product Marketing @ Carta:

• 👋 Based in: San Francisco Bay Area
• 🧠 Top of mind: Writing effective SKO presentations!
• 💬 Ask me about: PMM career paths
• 🍦 Fun fact: My maiden name is Smith. I met my husband in Russia and couldn't wait to get rid of my very generic last name. :)
How do approach market research, step-by-step? When do you know you've done "enough" research to share insights and recommended actions to the team?
Market research is really broad - how do you structure approaching market research so you don't boil the ocean and balance depth with getting something out the door quickly?
Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing11mo
I always start with a research brief to lay out the objectives and key questions we want answered and then socialize that with cross functional stakeholders to make sure ...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing11mo
You definitely don't need budget to get insights! To state the obvious, AI has made desk side research so much easier and faster as long as you know enough about the mar...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing11mo
At Carta, we tend to take a very scrappy approach to qual: we use email to recruit, and Zoom for interviews, Miro or Figjam to document and sometimes crowdsource the ta...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing11mo
I've been doing a bit of this myself lately!Besides the obvious answer of using AI tools that can do much broader research than was ever possible before, the other avenue...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing11mo
The UX research function is - in my opinion - one of the most valuable functions in software companies. I have formed fantastic partnerships with UX researchers in the p...
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