Kristen Kanka

AMA: Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions, Kristen Kanka on Building a Product Marketing Team

January 26 @ 9:00AM PT
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Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions | Formerly CaptureX, Medline Industries3y
Revenue - this should specificially be marketing contributed or influenced. Retention - this is typically a percentage and the target number will be dependent on the ma...
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Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions | Formerly CaptureX, Medline Industries3y
The most important thing is understanding that regions work at different paces—the rate of acceleration between role types and career progression. And it’s also important...
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Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions | Formerly CaptureX, Medline Industries3y
The biggest challenge for me is scaling my management style as the team has grown. It’s not easy! I want to be a manager who’s responsive to the needs of my direct report...
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Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions | Formerly CaptureX, Medline Industries3y
I talked above about regional nuances, and how understanding those aspects of a region are crucial, but that doesn’t mean a huge shift in strategy is needed for every reg...
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Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions | Formerly CaptureX, Medline Industries3y
Storytelling is the biggest trait is look for. I want all of my product marketers to be able to tell stories that anyone can follow that inspire action. Everyone I interv...
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Kristen Kanka
Morningstar Head of Marketing, Enterprise Solutions | Formerly CaptureX, Medline Industries3y
I love this question – and I am going to take a different approach to my answer here. One of the things I think product marketers can struggle with is responsibility vers...
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