AMA: HubSpot Head Of Product Marketing, Tiffany Tooley on Building A Product Marketing Team
March 8 @ 9:00AM PT
View AMA Answers
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
This very much depends on your company size, but I'd say the basics are: Messaging & Positioning GTM Strategy Development & Execution Sales & Buyer Enableme...
6567 Views
4 requests
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
I'd say there are 3 things to keep in mind as a new PMM: 1. Go easy on yourself and prioritize the things that will have the biggest impact. Product Marketers are centra...
1587 Views
2 requests
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
Without knowing how many you're talking about, this is a bit of a tough question to answer with specificity, but I'd say you definitely need to create and/or revisit your...
1025 Views
5 requests
When thinking about adding new talent to your team, how do you structure focus areas like Customer lifecycle stage, Persona, Areas of the product and Functional expertise?
We only have one product at HoneyBook but PMM does a lot of different things, ie, lifecycle marketing, research, competitive, feature launches, etc.
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
This is a fun question! I'd say you want to typically start with the Product first. If you have overlap, meaning one persona often purchases multiple products (especially...
1352 Views
1 request
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
I think you have to remember that people typically stay with an organization when 5 things exist: A great culture that they believe in Sticky relationships with their pe...
1228 Views
4 requests
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
We start by co-creating it! It's very much a collaborative exercise across the team to determine how we want to show up as a team! Some of it comes from listening to indi...
987 Views
2 requests
We are growing our product marketing team, and I'm wondering how to structure the roles and work for a team of three.
i want to know who i need to hire to start my product marketing team. We are starting with product insights, product launches and sales enablement
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
Great question! Sounds like your team is really prioritizing the awareness and consideration phase of your buyer's journey, so you're optimizing for product intel, launch...
1744 Views
2 requests
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
Great question! I'd recommend 4 things: Stay up on current trends in the industry. This seems like a no-brainer, but it's one of the things that I see folks deprioritize...
14824 Views
6 requests
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
This one is so important! That's because it helps define your team's strategic impact on the organization. At a very high level, I think your team's goals should directly...
1526 Views
1 request
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
I've done a lot of interviews and hiring over the years and I'm constantly impressed by how smart and driven Product Marketers are! It's one of the things that makes inte...
11281 Views
2 requests