Michele Nieberding

AMA: Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing, Michele Nieberding on Product Marketing / Demand Gen Alignment

December 18 @ 10:00AM PT
View AMA Answers
👋 Michele Nieberding
Hi everyone!

👋 Your name and where you're located: Michele Nieberding located in the DC area (technically Reston, VA)

💼 The company you work at and your role: VP of Product Marketing at Optiversal

👀 What topics are top of mind right now: Measuring PMM impact

🤝 Topics that you can help others with: Being more effective using AI

🍦 Favorite ice cream flavor: (We won’t judge!): Cookies and cream foreverrr
What does your weekly reporting in Lifecycle (post signup) look like?
What relevant KPIs are shared with other teams?
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
For me, weekly lifecycle reporting is not about celebrating vanity engagement or reacting to every blip. It’s about answering one question consistently:Are new customers ...
...Read More
431 Views
1 request
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
Oh gosh, I think generally the "handoff" point has bene one of the biggest challenges - what PMM owns vs. not. For example, while we focus on messaging and positioning, w...
...Read More
389 Views
1 request
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
At its core, a content-mapping exercise is just asking: Do we have the right content, for the right people, at the right time in their buying journey? When PMM and Demand...
...Read More
700 Views
1 request
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
At a high level, I don’t think of Product Marketing and Demand Gen as separate functions that “collaborate.” I think of them as two halves of the same revenue system. Pro...
...Read More
442 Views
1 request
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
This is something I’m very intentional about, because most breakdowns don’t happen at the strategy level. They happen in execution, when messaging gets diluted or improvi...
...Read More
373 Views
1 request
How has your product marketing team traditionally worked with demand generation / growth marketing?
At our company, demand gen is a much bigger function than product marketing so they drive all of the campaigns with our input, but I came from an organization where we lead the campaign strategy a bit more since we had more numbers. Anyone have a good solid process they use with their demand gen team?
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
In most organizations, the relationship between Product Marketing and Demand Gen reflects team size and mandate. When Demand Gen is larger, they naturally drive campaign ...
...Read More
540 Views
1 request
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that alignment doesn’t come from a quarterly kickoff or a big launch deck. Those help, but they fade quickly. Alignment improve...
...Read More
415 Views
1 request
Michele Nieberding
Treasure Data Director of Product Marketing4mo
Start with account reality, not broad personas. Let me explain:In traditional marketing, PMM spends a lot of time defining personas and segments that work at scale. In AB...
...Read More
1555 Views
1 request