As a hiring manager, what do the best product marketing candidates have in common?
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard • 4y
I've done a lot of interviews and hiring over the years and I'm constantly impressed by how smart and driven Product Marketers are! It's one of the things that makes inte...
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I love this question because in my experience I have hired PMMs from a variety of backgrounds, including people that have had no direct PMM experience, but they all had t...
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Anthropic Product Marketing Leader • 4y
In my mind, the best performing product marketers exhibit three must-have skills: Research Storytelling Project management To expand on each: The instinct and ability ...
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Upwork Senior Director, Marketplace Experience Marketing • 3y
The best product marketers have the following traits in common:1) They are type A. All of them.2) They have a growth mindset. There is no finished product, product market...
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Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau • 4y
I don't care about the candidate's background when interviewing for my team. I've hired folks from engineering, solution engineering, sales, and customer success teams an...
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My answer spans the top hard + soft skills: Hard: Well-rounded across words and numbers. You often hear that PMMs have to be strong storytellers (framing, positioning, m...
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Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork • 4y
I think the best product marketing candidates — and product marketers — have one thing in common: empathy. Empathy helps you understand where others are coming from, and ...
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Close Head of Product Marketing • 4y
From my hiring experience there are typically there are a few key characteristics and examples I look out for Has to be a great storyteller - go beyond writing copy, and...
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Headway Staff Product Marketing Manager • 3y
I’m always wary of painting with too broad a brushstroke when it comes to hiring. Your job as a hiring manager is to spend time understand the super powers of the people ...
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Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey • 3y
I think the best product marketing candidates have three things in common They are strong on the core requirements for the role. In most cases, it involves a degree of c...
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Gallileo CMO | Formerly Salesforce, Twilio, Blue Martini • 4y
I have some data here. For years, I used "candidate fit tests" (offered by Pittari.io). It's like Myers-Briggs but focused on workplace style & drivers. For successfu...
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Sirona Marketing CEO of Sirona Marketing: GTM for healthcare and life sciences • 5y
The ‘product marketing skills’ question has been answered really well by a lot of others on Sharebird already so I will focus my answer specifically to the interview itse...
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Lemon.io Head of Growth Product Marketing | Formerly LottieFiles, WeLoveNoCode (made $3.6M ARR), Abstract, Flawless App (sold) • 3y
The best product marketing candidates have: Excellent communication skills that come to "fitting" them to the role I'm hiring. Proven experience in product marketing wit...
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