Influencing the Product Roadmap

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Clara Lee
Clara Lee
Hootsuite VP, ProductOctober 7
Great question, especially for Product Marketing organizations that are still scaling to meet the footprint of much larger Product and/or Sales teams.  Although you may find your bandwidth consumed by executional activities, it's important to ensure you continue to bring market intelligence an......Read More
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Roopal Shah
Roopal Shah
Snowflake Head (VP) of Global Sales EnablementJanuary 10
For us the Corp Marketing team is accountable for brand, demand generation, creative, and communication (PR/AR/etc.) along with execution of programs (e.g. project management on campaigns or tradeshow/event work). The content however comes from Product Marketing to deliver in these programs and e......Read More
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Rahul Chhabria
Rahul Chhabria
Sentry Director of Product MarketingOctober 7
I try to think of our role as Contextual Educators. We’re responsible for providing the best first impression through content and being able to communicate the value of our product well enough to encourage someone to sign up or start a trial. That means testing messaging at scale across multiple ......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & BrandOctober 9
At Zapier I approached this by starting with a mission statement to describe why our team exists and the work we aim to uniquely do for the company: “PMM exists to maximize Zapier’s market opportunities by (1) clarifying where we win and (2) driving GTM strategy for product success.” I then defin......Read More
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Anna Wiggins
Anna Wiggins
Bluevine Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Content, Customer ResearchAugust 12
I’m glad you are asking this question because this is exactly the right mindset you should have in a young Product Marketing org to avoid becoming solely a GTM service function. The path to this is through a mixture of education and showing value to the Product team. Something you should find ou......Read More
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Alina Fu
Alina Fu
Microsoft Director, Head of Marketing for Viva Insights, Glint, Pulse, and GoalsDecember 1
This one is challenging because I’ve witnessed year long integrations from newly acquired products into the overall strategy, and even then, it wasn’t “fully” absorbed into the main strategy. First, I would recommend looking at the reasons why this product came under the fold. What was the visio......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & BrandOctober 9
30 days: Balance being an absolute sponge and learning by doing. Be a sponge by reading every doc you can get your hands on (enablement materials, case studies, team quarterly/annual plans, research studies, etc.), talking to as many prospects and customers as possible, and scheduling 1:1s with b......Read More
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How do you perform extensive competitive product research?
I've been tasked with it but I'm missing the mark. This research is for the CEO and Product/Engineering teams who want to know how our tech stacks up in the market. Do you have any tips?
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Pranav Deshpande
Pranav Deshpande
Vanta Senior Product Marketing ManagerAugust 26
To start I'd say thorough competitive research is the foundation of great product marketing, so it's great that your company is investing in it. It's really important for the PMM that owns a product to be an expert on both direct and indirect competitors. Competitive research shouldn't happen in ......Read More
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Uri Kogan
Uri Kogan
OnPlan VP Product MarketingMarch 4
This is an interesting one. In my last company, I joined as the first PMM. In my first meeting with the product team, I spent a fair bit of time explaining the role of PMMs and what we do — how we connect the market to the goals of the organization, and the product back to the market. That hel......Read More
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Alexa Scordato
Alexa Scordato
TikTok PMOAugust 14
If product marketing is embedded within product, what that usually tells me is that marketing is a secondary function to product. If you're operating within a product-led organization, the cadence of the business will be determined by product leadership and the roadmap they set. That said, market......Read More
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