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?
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Instacart Vice President, Consumer Marketing • 4y
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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PandaDoc VP of Product Marketing & Brand • 5y
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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Eventbrite VP, Global Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Amazon, Ex-Amex • 4y
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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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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ServiceNow Senior Director, Platform and AI Product Marketing • 4y
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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Anthropic Product Marketing • 4y
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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Jasper Product Marketing | Formerly Atlassian (Trello), HubSpot, Lyft • 4y
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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ICONIQ Capital Product & Content Marketing | Formerly Replicant, MobileCoin, Zuora, Hired, Oracle, Responsys • 4y
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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Salesforce Senior Director, Product Marketing • 2y
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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Ironclad VP of Product Marketing • 2y
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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Instruqt VP of Marketing | Formerly Mural, Twitter, Anheuser-Busch InBev • 2y
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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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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HeyGen Head of B2B Marketing • 1y
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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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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SAP Director of Product Marketing • 5y
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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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Product Marketing| Kubernetes on AWS | Formerly Directi • 2y
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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Zennify Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Maxis Telecommunications, Singtel (Singapore Telecommunications), LinkedIn, Hootsuite, Certn, BenchSci, Zennify • 2y
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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Advisor & Investor | Product Marketing Expert | B2B | Formerly Pandadoc,Unbabel, McKinsey • 2y
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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Axonius Product Marketing | Formerly Microsoft, Veza, Okta • 1y
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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Mentor | Product Marketing Leader | Formerly Lenovo | Dell Boomi | Celigo | GoodData • 2y
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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