Amanda Groves

AMA: Crossbeam Senior Director Product Marketing, Amanda Groves on Developer Product Marketing

March 26 @ 10:00AM PT
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👋 Amanda Groves

👋 Hi I'm Amanda Groves.. Philly native (Go Flyers!), Pittsburgh transplant (Go Panthers!)

💼 I currently am the VP of Product Marketing at Enable, a fin tech startup within the Supply Chaqin.

👀 Topics of interest for me are managing M&A and integrating offerings... AI product innovation/roll out and building high-performance PMM teams.

🤝 Topics I am help with... adopting agile marketing, core PMM/Solution PMM, new product introduction process/tiering and pricing and packaging.

🍦 Favorite ice cream flavor.. mochi!

How do you build an active and engaged developer community? What is your take on Developer Evangelists?
Working on building awareness for developer.tomtom.com and hiring Developer Evangelists, PMMs and Customer Relationship Managers.
Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
My take on this is assess what's already out there before building something new. Your team could benefit from becoming active in preexisting communities, building conten...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
The biggest things to keep in mind when selling to enterprise are the concepts of:MultithreadingABMPersonalizationpeer influenceWith these three things in mind, for devel...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
It depends on the organization's GTM motion. My previous company, Crossbeam is hybrid, eg. sales-led and product-led. They drive leads to sales and follow a traditional "...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
It depends on the GTM motion of the company (marketing-led, sales-led, product-led, ecosystem-led). Let me share some examples for each scenario:Marketing-led:Inbound lea...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
It depends on the GTM motion of the company (marketing-led, sales-led, product-led, ecosystem-led). Let me share some examples for each scenario:Marketing-led:Inbound lea...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
The biggest lesson is don't sleep on the value of community-led when marketing to developers. Developers are curious and care about continuous learning opportunities. Foc...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
Agnostic of audience, a good product marketer will speak the common language of the audience they are serving. So when listening to the developer target audience via gong...
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Amanda Groves
Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler2y
Great question. The main differences between these two audiences are their motivations - which impacts deliverability and construction of enablement materials.B2D (Busine...
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