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How does the product marketing team's placement in the org chart (under marketing, product, etc.) effect your ability to influence the roadmap?

Eileen Buenviaje Reyes
BrightHire VP, Marketing | Formerly 1Password, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, LinkedIn5y
There are pros and cons to any PMM reporting structure, with no perfect solution. My experience has mostly been with a PMM team that reports into a marketing leader and d...
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If product marketing is embedded within product, what that usually tells me is that marketing is a secondary function to product. If you're operating within a product-led...
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Rehan Mirza
Verifiable Chief Growth Officer6y
Our PMM team currently rolls up under the Marketing practice, which rolls up into the Customer Org (Customer Success/Support, People Science, Marketing). This means Sales...
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Abhiroop Basu
Square Product Lead, Payments5y
You would assume that being in the product organization would allow a PMM more influence. However, I’ve actually found the opposite to be the case. For a brief period o...
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April Rassa
Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe6y
The PMM team at my previous employer, HackerOne reported to Marketing. PM's purpose in the universe is to build the right product by translating customer needs into produ...
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Rayleen Hsu
The Knot Worldwide Marketing Consultant | Formerly Meta, Strava, eBay, Nextdoor, TeamSnap4y
From my experience, it's less about product marketing's placement in the org chart and more about product marketing's relationship with product and cross functional teams...
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Daniel Waas
AppFolio Vice President Product Marketing4y
I have led product marketing teams that reported into marketing and others that reported into product. I've been reorganized from one to the other twice. I don't find it ...
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Jennifer Kay Corridon
Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot3y
If the product marketing team is placed within the marketing department, they may be more focused on the promotion and positioning of products rather than on the developm...
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Lauren B. Parker
TextNow Product Marketing Lead | Formerly Uber, Strava, AAA2y
I’ve been under both the product org and the marketing org and there are pros and cons to each one. In my experience, the pros of being in the product org are that you ar...
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