Hien Phan

AMA: Timescale Head of Product Marketing, Hien Phan on Developing Your Product Marketing Career

January 21 @ 11:00AM PST
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We will email you Hien's answers to these questions after the event in case you can't make it.
How did you move into your current management role?
What are notable certifications/courses that could help in advancing a career in PMM?
What mistakes, failures, or challenges in your career ended up teaching you the most?
When you were mid-level in your PMM career (~10 years of experience), how did you think about your career development? What goals did you have at that time?
How to over domain hiring bias while looking for growth roles?
What is the best platform to showcase your work portfolio if you do not have a webpage?
How do you build product marketing emerging talent in your team and make sure you grow your skills?
What are the top three skills you would focus on for development as a PMM?
What are your thoughts on specializing as a PMM leader versus branching out to other types of Marketing to set yourself up for exec positions in the furure?
What KPIs do you track for your team, and how do you measure and communicate expectations and results?
For someone working in product marketing, what would you deem most valuable in terms of upskilling to reach the manager level?
If you're a weak writer how do you overcome this? Especially since messaging and positioning is crucial in PMM?
I feel like Product marketing is in a similar place where Product Management was 15-20 years ago. With that said, how do you see Product Marketing growing over the next 5 years?