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How do you structure your Product Marketing team?

Mike Polner
Adobe VP, Product Marketing & GM, Next Gen Creators | Formerly Uber, Fivestars, Electronic Arts6y
Great question! I think about this one a lot...First off, it’s important to callout that there is no perfect org structure :) In general, you have to identify what you’re...
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Airtable’s product marketing team has a bit of a unique structure in that we don’t have one “Head of Product Marketing”, we have two. Myself (Self-Serve PMM lead) and my ...
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Claire Drumond
Atlassian VP of Product Marketing2y
My PMM team is built like a funnel. Our focus is to land new customers, which we only count when those customers start to pay. Therefore, the job of my PMM team ranges fr...
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I think PMM orgs go through phases. When I started in this role we were strictly by product, but our portfolio quickly became too complicated. We moved to more of a segme...
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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing5y
The structure of the PMM team is usually a function of the size of the company and it’s GTM model. The “typical” SaaS PMM team has a set of Core PMMs that are focused on ...
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Akshay Kerkar
LaunchDarkly Vice President Product Marketing5y
The structure of any team needs to be driven by the success criteria for that team. At Atlassian, we typically look at KPIs like # of paid users and pipeline (MQLs) for P...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau3y
I've done it in so many different ways! Few quick pointers: The most important thing is to ensure every team member has a good swim lane and growth path. Take your rev...
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Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
My team is responsible for product messaging & positioning for Salesforce's core solutions for small businesses across our high-growth industries and customer & c...
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Vishal Naik
Box Head of Product Marketing, AI & Platform | Formerly Google Gemini4y
At DocuSign, there are product marketers across our main product categories, as well as industry and audience teams. Every company I've ever worked at has grouped their t...
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Alexa Schirtzinger
Watershed Head of Marketing4y
A lot of it depends on the types of products you're marketing. Some teams can be easily organized into solution-based pods, so if you have a lot of products in your portf...
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Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand4y
Our team is structured by audience type and discipline. We have one part of the team focused on our end users and prospects, another part of the team is focused on our pa...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle2y
Rather than by product line or aligned to how the product team is organized, I structure product marketing teams by customer groupings (or buying centers). So if your com...
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Jeffrey Vocell
Panorama Education Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Narvar, Iterable, HubSpot, IBM4y
Team structure is always a hot topic in product marketing, and there's a lot of different ways of doing it. The product marketing team at Iterable recently re-organized i...
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Kevin Garcia
Anthropic Product Marketing Leader2y
At Retool, we've evolved our structure around the product-led and sales-led sides of our business. About half of our team is focused on sales-led growth, partnering close...
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Kevin MacGillivray
Pressable Chief Marketing Officer2y
I have led several product marketing teams throughout my career and it is certainly not one size fits all.A couple of models that have worked well:Mirroring ProductIn an ...
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Jack Wei
Sendbird fmr Head of Marketing | Formerly SmartRecruiters, Mixpanel, Deloitte, Beardwood&Co3y
Sendbird is an in-app conversations platform, where we help improve customer retention and conversion through chat, voice, video, and livestream APIs. Our team is structu...
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Mike Greenberg
SurveyMonkey Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Apple2y
The right team structure is going to be highly dependent on your business, so there's no one right answer. I've been on teams that have been organized by product, vertica...
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Lara McCaskill
Atlassian Senior Director, Head of Portfolio PMM, Strategy Collection | Formerly Amazon, Stitch Fix, Pandora6y
This all comes down to how is the rest of the business organized. If you're organizing in a way that's incongrous to everyone else in the org, you will not be setup for s...
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Karen He
Fiddler AI Product Marketing5y
The PMM team structure depends on the size of the company, how technical the product is, and the GTM model. Company Size: As the company grows and scales, PMM tends to f...
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Jasmine Jaume
Career & Leadership Coach/ Former Director, Product Marketing5y
In general, PMM roles at Intercom are more of the 'full stack' variety - i.e we cover the whole journey from feeding into the roadmap to launch, including competitive res...
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Julien Sauvage
Clari VP, Brand, Content and Product Marketing2y
At Clari, my team has a dual mapping:by product lineby functional area (AR, market intel etc)Previous gigs I would align the team by function or by product line. Segment ...
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