How do product marketing key stakeholders from other departments change as your company grows?
Ex) <10 employees you meet with CEO and Head of Product—how does this change when you're 100, 500, 1000 employees?
Arrived Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Shopify, Square (Block), Sprout Social • 6y
This is an awesome question and one that I've thought a ton about as we've scaled. I touched on this a bit in another answer (“When thinking about adding new talent to yo...
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BrightHire VP, Marketing | Formerly 1Password, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, LinkedIn • 5y
I can only speak to the change from ~1000 → 3000+. As a company grows, the number of stakeholders grows along with it. That shouldn’t be a surprise. What I’ve also learne...
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Instructure Head of Product Marketing | Formerly ExactTarget (Salesforce Marketing Cloud), Zendesk, Slack, Salesforce • 6y
Such an interesting question because I actually think it doesn't change that much. My last role was a company that was ~150 employees, Zendesk is now ~3,000 I think. In b...
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Google Global Head of Growth Go-to-market, Google Maps Platform • 4y
The short answer is that there are more, and the desires each stakeholder has become more specific! Essentially, as companies grow they have the opportunity to bring in m...
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Glassdoor Senior Vice President Marketing • 5y
I’m not certain the stakeholders and leverage have changed much in my experience with different company sizes, although resources clearly do. As you grow from startup to ...
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AppFolio Vice President Product Marketing • 4y
Regardless of the size of the organization, there will always be a marketing and a product leader. They are your critical partners. Even in very large organizations with ...
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