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How do you think about your 30/60/90 day goals as the Head of Product Marketing in a startup that didn't have product marketing?

Jasmine Anderson Taylor
Instacart Vice President, Consumer Marketing4y
Product Marketing’s superpower is being the “Voice of the Product to Customers and the Voice of Customers to Product.” When establishing PMM as a new function, the best p...
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Gregg Miller
PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand5y
30 days: Balance being an absolute sponge and learning by doing. Be a sponge by reading every doc you can get your hands on (enablement materials, case studies, team quar...
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Jameelah Calhoun
Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex4y
The first 90 days are crucial to any job, but especially for new product marketing leaders. This is the time to establish your credibility, build relationships, and layou...
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JD Prater
Ting VP of Marketing5y
Now this is a fun challenge. Assuming you did your homework during the interview process, you should have a good idea of what you're getting into. That doesn't mean you w...
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Sharadhi (Gadagkar) Patel
ServiceNow Senior Director, Platform and AI Product Marketing4y
One of the best pieces of advice I got was to take the necessary time I needed to be a "sponge" and let things soak in, before going straight into "solve-mode". Of course...
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Andy Schumeister
Anthropic Product Marketing4y
30 days: Prioritize understanding your customers, your product, and your company: Shadow customer calls (or listen to recordings if they exist). Get to know your cross-...
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Jessica Webb Kennedy
Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft4y
PMM wears so many hats it's important to recognize what is needed at any stage of a company. When first coming into an organization as the first PMM I think the most impo...
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Natalie Louie
ICONIQ Capital Product & Content Marketing | Formerly Replicant, MobileCoin, Zuora, Hired, Oracle, Responsys4y
Please see my phases of success for a PMM in your first 100 days here . A KEY THING to know at the onset is, does everyone know what a PMM does and what value they bring?...
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Aurelia Solomon
Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing2y
This is a great question. First 30 days: Focus is on getting to know the team (your peers, execs, and those who work for you) and the product -- and starting to build rel...
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Ambika Aggarwal
Ironclad VP of Product Marketing2y
As the Head of PMM for a startup that didn't have Product Marketing, you have three goals as your onboarding 1) Build a solid understanding of your industry, product, and...
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Sean Lauer
Instruqt VP of Marketing | Formerly Mural, Twitter, Anheuser-Busch InBev2y
As the first Head of PMM in a startup, you should use a structured approach over your first 30, 60, and 90 days: Day 0-30: Learning & discovery—Focus on learning a...
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Sarah Din
Former SVP of Product Marketing at Quickbase2mo
First 30 days...listen. Talk to sales, talk to customers, talk to product. Understand how deals are getting done today without PMM, because something is working or the co...
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Holly Xiao
HeyGen Head of B2B Marketing1y
This can be tricky, especially if cross-functional leaders and stakeholders have never worked with a PMM team in past roles. So, I’d emphasize educating the organization ...
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Hien Phan
TigerData Head of Marketing4y
Oy! First, good luck! I have done the "first" before. I don't think you have the luxury of 30/60/90. I think it's more like 30 days to identify the problem and tackle eas...
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Danny Sack
SAP Director of Product Marketing5y
I'll "yes and" Gregg's answer and say that this will really vary by company size and complexity. I was at a startup where my 30-day goals included creating buyer persona...
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Sabari Sawant
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Product Marketing| Kubernetes on AWS | Formerly Directi2y
Understand and map the following points when you start new with any organization. This may also be helpful if you are the only PMM.First 30 days:01. Mission and Vision (T...
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Yvonne Chow
Zennify Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Maxis Telecommunications, Singtel (Singapore Telecommunications), LinkedIn, Hootsuite, Certn, BenchSci, Zennify2y
The first 30/60/90 day goals as the new Head of Product Marketing for a start-up without a product marketing function can be broken down into these 3 parts:First 30 days:...
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🟧 Hugo H. Macedo 🟧
Advisor & Investor | Product Marketing Expert | B2B | Formerly Pandadoc,Unbabel, McKinsey2y
You need to fill 3 buckets:understand the businessunderstand the organizationunderstand the customerYour leverage point is to build an internal network and gain and susta...
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Teju Shyamsundar
Axonius Product Marketing | Formerly Microsoft, Veza, Okta1y
starting from zero product marketing to building a team is tough, but fun (depending on your leadership team :) )I've been through this at a Series B company where I was ...
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Div Manickam
Mentor | Product Marketing Leader | Formerly Lenovo | Dell Boomi | Celigo | GoodData2y
Having clarity and focus is key - I like to think of 100 days of discovery as a start.100 day discovery questions - PMM assessment - Ask the questions that will guide you...
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