Katie Gerard

AMA: Klaviyo Director of Product Marketing, Katie Gerard on Product Launches

August 9 @ 10:00AM PT
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing2y
Building out a launch process is actually fairly simple in concept. The hardest part is definitely getting cross functional alignment. This process can easily take 6 mon...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing2y
This is a great question and a super common scenario within PMM. At Klaviyo, we've played around with a lot of different launch cadences and resourcing levels for launche...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing2y
Core elements of a good feature launch include: The messaging. This should clearly define what the feature is, the value it brings, and how it's differentiated in the ma...
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How do you balance launch communications with an ever-changing roadmap?
i.e. managing how to re-allocate the product marketing calendar when shifts happen...say a P0 gets bumped and is now running up on another P0 OR say a P0 gets bumped and now runs up on a P2 bundle release (of which X features have been ready to go live for a few weeks and so bumping would cause even further delay)
Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing2y
Staying on top of the Product team can be really challenging. Project management tools like productboard can help, but there will always be last minute changes. A few way...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing2y
This will depend on your specific goals for the launch. I like to define tiers for product launches and then have a bill of materials for each tier. That makes the proces...
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Katie Gerard
Workhuman Head of Product Marketing2y
The biggest gaps I often see are around long term tracking of success. Many PMM's struggle to set goals for their launch day, which makes it very hard to report on succes...
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