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How do you balance the needs and expectations of the senior stakeholders (C level and customer-facing teams) with the reality of the product?

In cases where a delay is needed or the product version is descoped, what are some of your favorite ways to handle stakeholder conversation that most often lands on product marketing team's plates.

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  1. Amanda Groves
    Amanda Groves

    Zywave VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 1y

    you get really good at translation. senior stakeholders care about impact — revenue, retention, differentiation — and they want to know how a launch ties to business priorities. product cares about what’s actually feasible and scoped. my job is to bridge the two without overpromising or watering it down. i’ll frame things in outcomes, not features. i’ll show what we can say confidently, where the risk is, and how we’re mitigating it. and if there’s a disconnect, i surface it early with options — ...Read More

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