Devang Sachdev

AMA: Twilio Former Senior Director of Product Marketing, Devang Sachdev on Influencing the Product Roadmap

July 9 @ 10:00AM PT
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Devang Sachdev
Snorkel AI Vice President of Marketing6y
Product teams benefit the most when Product Marketing stays connected from inception of new features/products to actual delivery. At inception, product marketers help wit...
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How do you influence the product roadmap without clear monetization targets for new features/products?
It's clear there is an opportunity, but currently hard to see how big of an opportunity.
Devang Sachdev
Snorkel AI Vice President of Marketing6y
The goal of any new product/feature releases is to allow your business to capture or retain slice of the market. It is important to have as much clarity as possible befor...
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What specific areas of roadmap influence do you think product marketing can help the most with?
Is it the decision of what features to actually build based on customer feedback and marketing opportunity OR more so naming, branding and how we position and target features?
Devang Sachdev
Snorkel AI Vice President of Marketing6y
tl:dr: Both and then some. It is as important for product marketers to be involve in the inception stage as it is when taking new feature/product to market. Features th...
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Devang Sachdev
Snorkel AI Vice President of Marketing6y
On the surface this question is simple. How do you take sales feedback to product? But as product marketer your goal is not just to take sales feedback but to use it as ...
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Devang Sachdev
Snorkel AI Vice President of Marketing6y
Product Management and Product Marketing are two sides of the same coin. Organizationally there are benefits to both approaches. As a product manager, I have had product ...
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Devang Sachdev
Snorkel AI Vice President of Marketing6y
Product teams can get myopic with mandate from leadership or long term vision. But this is exactly where product marketing can be an excellent value partner to their prod...
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