In what ways to you see (or recommend) product marketers build trust with their XFN partners?
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Meta Product Marketing, Reality Labs | Formerly Sprinklr, YuMe • 5y
Building trust is the key component here and I think you get there by taking the time to listen and learn. With the product team specifically, it’s educating them on your...
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Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups • 4y
Show up! In my last role, I was on a team where it wasn’t usual for PMM to play a significant role in the PM planning or organization. I showed up, spent time with the le...
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Glassdoor Senior Vice President Marketing • 5y
First, this is so hard! I have been through a few turns of this and candidly I’d say not every company is ready. There are companies that are just not ready to have a str...
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This is an interesting one. In my last company, I joined as the first PMM. In my first meeting with the product team, I spent a fair bit of time explaining the role of PM...
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Mastercard Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Miro, Dropbox, Demandbase, Autodesk, Oracle, • 4y
This happens a lot, and a lot of times it’s because PMM wasn’t established when the company started shipping products and became successful without the help of a PMM func...
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Sanity.io VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Calendly, InVision, Clearbit, Amazon (consultant) • 2y
The No. 1 way you can build trust with cross-functional partners is by listening to them. Try meeting with them at least quarterly and asking:- What have you liked that p...
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jane.app Director of Product Marketing • 5y
Start with discovery and a series of questions that you can consistently ask your stakeholders. 1. Understand them as humans: what motivates people, how they communicate...
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