Esther Yoon

AMA: RingCentral AVP of Product Marketing, Esther Yoon on Product Launches

October 19 @ 10:00AM PT
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Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
Audience. Know your audience. It's cliche. I'm still going to say it again - KNOW your audience. What/who influences them? Where do they get their information? What does ...
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Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
I only have one that I can think of that holds true for all types of products:Write a mock PR to have a clear understanding of the message you (and your team) want to lan...
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Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
Hands-down, Zoom Hardware as a Service. The messaging and positioning were quite simple, definitely the easiest part... the hard part was steering a purely SaaS company t...
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Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
I like to have the flexibility to do both. But, if you see it as this or that, the latter ("Faster search is here") is designed to be a delightful surprise, the former (m...
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In your eyes, what's product marketing's role in the launch? What's key to ensure it's smooth?
What are the key deliverables PMM provides? What gets handed off to other teams to run with and create?
Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
Every company has a different PMM philosophy so it's really important to dig deep into this whenever you're interviewing. On my team, where I run core product marketing ...
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Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
I'm going to break this out into two questions: How do you tier launches?Launches are tiered based on business impact (yes, I know, very "captain obvious.") My whole poin...
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Esther Yoon
Veeam Software SVP, Product Marketing4y
For iterative releases, I spend the most time around developing and optimizing the operational rhythm. It's about effectively managing velocity and continuously refining ...
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