Lauren Buchman

AMA: Observable Head of Marketing, Lauren Buchman on Developer Product Marketing

April 14 @ 10:00AM PT
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👋 Lauren Buchman

Hi all, my name is Lauren Buchman. 👋

💼 Job: Senior Director of Product Marketing, GitHub. Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud and Tailscale

📍 Location: Northern California

🍦 Favorite ice cream flavor: Mint and chocolate chip

Do you have a CTO, CIO or developer persona profile that you can share?
Looking for slides or document that spells out what particular personas like or don't like as well where they congregate (what media they read, what groups they follow, etc)
Lauren Buchman
GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb5y
Developer personas are diverse! You could rename them "technical practitioners" to better describe this group of humans. High level, in the business world, they are the f...
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Lauren Buchman
GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb5y
I love this question. First, I would say to save your company's BDR/SDRs time and avoid trying to set up calls with developers. You'll avoid a lot of frustration on both...
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Lauren Buchman
GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb5y
It depends! A common pitfall in developer marketing messaging is that the marketers spend a bunch of time trying to put things into terms they can understand as a non-dev...
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Lauren Buchman
GitHub Senior Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Cloudflare, Google Cloud, Google Developers, Observable, Orb5y
At it's core: it's not different from B2B or B2C when you strip it down to the pillars of what makes for any successful marketing. Understanding your audience: What are...
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