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Priya Gill
Momentive (SurveyMonkey) Vice President, Product Marketing • June 30
Persistence? :) That's a tough one and something that I've experienced many times in my career. I've always approached that as a challenge that I strongly desire to overcome. Similar to a question I answered above, I always start by building a great working relationship with Product by clearly sh......Read More
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Marissa Hastings
Codecademy Group Product Marketing Manager • June 21
I would first try to understand where the product manager is coming from, i.e. what knowledge or perceptions are they starting with about Marketing? What context might they need? What pain points might they have experienced in the past with other marketers? Starting from a place of empathy can he......Read More
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Ajit Ghuman
Twilio Director of Product Management - Pricing & Packaging, CXP • June 19
Silicon Valley is littered with failed products that were technically excellent but totally failed to win their markets. Time and again technical founders and product people find that they've run out of market runway, gone head first into a strong incumbent and have not understood buyer's min......Read More
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Josh Colter
Woven Head of Marketing • September 20
First, make a concious decision to give them respect without demanding any in return. You don't really "deal" with them. Instead, you learn to foster a healthy and productive working relationship. Now, treat PMs like a customer who you have to understand so you can win over. Enter into their ......Read More
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Priya Gill
Momentive (SurveyMonkey) Vice President, Product Marketing • June 30
The start of building a great working relationship is clearly showing the expertise and value that you uniquely bring into the partnership with Product. As a PMM expert, you want to be seen as the central hub for a lot of critical information regarding not only your customers, but the products yo......Read More
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Brianne Shally
Nextdoor Head of Product Marketing • January 12
Here are a few of my approaches to influence product leadership on the product priorities: * Work cross-functionally across UX, research, Data Science, Product Operations, Sales, etc. to incorporate everyone's input so Product Marketing's list represents all input and is the source of tru......Read More
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Matt Hodges
Atlassian Head of Marketing, Confluence • December 14
At the stage before anything is handed over to eng for design. At Atlassian, we refer to this as the "Explore" phase–"Wonder" and "Make" come before and after, respectively. When you do this, be clear on the role PMM is playing and the type of feedback the design wants and needs to move forwa......Read More
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Laura Jones
Instacart Chief Marketing Officer • December 8
One way I have approached this is to bring the cross-functional team together for a Design Sprint. Sprints are one of the most effective ways to quickly align a team around key insights and develop a customer-centric product solution. Having PMMs participate in or even lead these sprints is a gre......Read More
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Gregg Miller
Oyster® VP of Product Marketing • February 11
Our job as product marketers is to help the organization maximize the capture of market opportunity — whether that’s becoming more competitive, entering new markets, increasing the value we deliver to existing customers, or numerous other ways. Thus I think it’s important to start with “what op......Read More
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Jeffrey Vocell
VP of Product Marketing • July 21
It depends what the meeting is. More generally what PM expects from PMMs include: 1. Intelligence on Customers - Trends, NPS data, insights from conversations or a Customer Advisory Board. In other words, what are you hearing from customers or trends in data are you seeing that should o......Read More
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