Where does in-app copy fit in your org? (Under Product Marketing, Design or other?)
Particularly interested in technical products, but also curious for nontechnical.
unitQ VP Marketing • 6y
For my company, it's currently shared between product, product marketing and design, but that's mostly a factor of being a startup and in the process of building out each...
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OpenAI Product Marketing • 3y
This is always a gray area :) At Gong, most UX copy is owned by the product writing team, except for naming "Tier 1" products. Together with that team, we established a ...
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Flexera Chief Product Officer | Formerly Rackspace, Dell • 5y
In-app copy typically falls under Product Marketing. If it is something you do not own today, my advice would be to work with the Design/PM team who is currently owning t...
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Skilljar Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Intercom, Glassdoor, Prophet, Kraft • 3y
The copy in the product itself is owned by our Product Design team. However, we have a Customer Engagement / Customer Lifecycle Marketing team that owns copy for in-app m...
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VMware Senior Director, Blockchain Go To Market | Formerly Accenture, United States Air Force • 4y
In my opinion, PMM has a better vantage of customer needs and command of customer voice to produce best in app copy, product naming nomenclature and in-product guidance. ...
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Fivetran VP Product & Portfolio Marketing • 4y
In-app copy does fit with Product Marketing - and Product! So technically, our PM team owns the in-product experience but PMM has full access to the tool. We have a slack...
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Inngest Head of Marketing • 4y
A few answers here, based on use case! Naming inside the product (like features, tabs, or experiences) would be handled by PMM during the launch process. PM is likely t...
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MyFitnessPal VP Product Marketing | Formerly LinkedIn, Credit Karma, Handshake • 1y
I’ve mostly seen in-app copy live under Design within the Product org, and that’s also the case in my current company. This setup makes sense because in-app copy is part ...
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Adobe Sr. Product Marketing Manager | Formerly Chatbooks, soona • 1y
I think it depends on the size of the organization. When I worked at Chatbooks, we had smaller, more tight-knit teams and I was one of two Product Marketers. Because of t...
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Shopify Head of Retail Product Marketing | Formerly GoDaddy, ClearVoice, AppBuddy, Scripps • 8y
We like keeping this with the PMM or a Product Manager/Owner, as the person writing this copy needs to be super familiar with the product and user experience. They need t...
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Telescope Partners Head of Marketing | Formerly Nexmo, Dialpad, Aspire, Brandfolder • 8y
If your company has the resources, I would advocate for there to be an in-app copy writer that sits under design. By putting them with design, they will have the shortest...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 8y
IME this should sit in engineering, but it's generally not a bad idea for the copy writer to solicit PMM feedback. PMM needs to be hyper focused on strategic tasks. This ...
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Sanity.io VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Calendly, InVision, Clearbit, Amazon (consultant) • 3y
In quickly growing companies, I've found there are a few "hot potatoes" that get passed around as the quarters pass by and employees come and go. One of those jobs that g...
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It depends on how big your company is! At large companies, there’s often a Content Strategy or Product Writing person or team that sits under Design. The PMM should ens...
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Chameleon Co-founder & CEO • 1y
Copy is maybe the most important lever to drive engagement and growth 🚀 so this is really important! It’s absolutely critical that the best copywriters on your team are i...
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