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AMA: Oracle Group Vice President - Industry Marketing, Jon Rooney on Product Marketing KPI’s

August 23 @ 10:00AM PST
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Oracle Group Vice President - Industry Marketing, Jon Rooney on Product Marketing KPI’s
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Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingAugust 24
As a product marketer, especially as you grow in role and become more senior, measurement of success moves beyond tasks and deliverables to align lock-step with the other GTM functions like sales, customer success and growth/demand generation. Especially once a company has established product-mar......Read More
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What are some of the *worst* KPIs for Product Marketers to commit to achieving?
There are many questions about the best KPIs to track, but none about the worst.
Jon Rooney
Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingAugust 24
Awesome question - I think there are two buckets that make up the "worst" KPIs for PMMs to commit to achieving: KPIs that simply track task completion and KPIs on which PMMs have no direct impact.  KPIs that track task completion are so tempting because they're straight-forward and, thus, we'v......Read More
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Jon Rooney
Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingAugust 24
The short answer is socialize constantly - it's an "always on" function for internal alignment and awareness. Ideally, any PMM KPIs will clearly map to both top-level company goals (revenue, net retention, product usage) and a shared understanding of "who does what"/"how a bill becomes a law" for......Read More
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Jon Rooney
Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingAugust 24
For longer sales cycles, the product marketing team should be creating assets and programs that rally stakeholders, enable champions and fend off competitors during Request For Proposal (RFP) bakeoffs to help drive early opportunities to close. Long sales cycles frequently involve RFPs heavily in......Read More
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Jon Rooney
Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingAugust 24
Product marketing performance should absolutely be measured, and both the outcomes and measurement parameters should be well-understood from the start to avoid a whole lot of folks running around doing stuff without a clear sense of "why?" and "how do we know if it's going well?". Every industry ......Read More
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Jon Rooney
Jon Rooney
Unity Vice President Product MarketingAugust 24
For new senior PMM hires (like Sr. Director/Director team leads), I think of 30-60-90 plans to follow a basic flow: assess (30 days), design (60 days), run (90 days).  During the "assess" phase, a senior PMM has to listen, observe and learn as much as possible: meet the team and figure out the......Read More
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