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How do you get product management to bring you into initial design process?

Laura Jones
Instacart Chief Marketing Officer8y
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 arou...
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Sangita Sarkar
Immutable Head Of Marketing6y
Establish trust. Throughout my career in gaming, I have seen silos of functions where product doesn't communicate with marketing or design doesn't communicate with engin...
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Brandon McGraw
OpenAI Head of Product Marketing, Apps6y
Like all things, I think this comes down to trust building. When you're new, focus on building trust with PMs by showing that you can handle the highest priority, high im...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft5y
Over the years we've worked really hard to get PMMs a seat at the table when it comes to working with the predetermined product triad - Engineering Manager, Product Manag...
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Caroline Silverkorn
Freed Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Quizlet, Udemy, San Francisco Ballet6y
Every team has a different dynamic with this. In my experience, the PMMs who are highly empathetic and clued into team dynamics do best in this scenario. One of the fears...
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Shezana Manji
BenchSci VP of Marketing4y
As product marketers, we need customers to believe in the why (value, benefits), the how and what become proof points. This is also a critical input for the design team t...
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Uri Kogan
R-Zero Vice President of Product Marketing5y
This can definitely be a challenge, depending on the relationship between PM and PMM. There are a number of approaches that can help. 1. If you have had a prior launch t...
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Aneri Shah
Ethos VP Marketing | Formerly Meta, Microsoft4y
Lead with insights. The best way to get involved as a PMM is show that you have both the breadth and depth of insights that articulate the customer problem, and can help ...
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