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How do you showcase to interviewers your work in messaging and positioning, without actually showing documented work?

Also, how to actually show its success, as this is something that may take awhile before seeing a growth trend and can you directly actually attribute a particular success metric on messaging?
Kevin Zentmeyer
Upwork Senior Director, Marketplace Experience Marketing3y
To showcase your work without actually showing your work, you can instead show your process. Any messaging work will have a before and after, even if the prior state was ...
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Jiong Liu
Wiz VP of Product Marketing4y
There is a process to messaging and I think many folks are overly focused on the last step which is the final translation to words. I actually think this piece is the sim...
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Jeffrey Vocell
Panorama Education Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Narvar, Iterable, HubSpot, IBM6y
I think it’s hard to showcase messaging in an interview unless you’re specifically bringing up documented work. At HubSpot, we like to give candidates an exercise before ...
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Jenna Crane
Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork4y
Make sure you talk about the process! That includes: What was the existing state when you started (i.e. messaging didn't exist, it did exist but it was falling flat / w...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
This is such a good question There are many ways to demonstrate success of messaging/positioning work Talk through the process - Explain your approach to developing mess...
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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences | Formerly Tellme Networks, Microsoft, Box, Vera, Scout RFP, and Sisu Data, to name a few.4y
This is a great one! It's also something few people do well in an interview setting. It's a bit challenging to do verbally, but if you think it through in advance, you ca...
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Alissa Lydon
Actively AI VP of Marketing | Formerly Mezmo, Sauce Labs5y
When I am looking for messaging and positioning validation from outside the org, I find that people engage more with a story than with a static framework. And as far as s...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing3y
I think the best way to talk about messaging and positioning in your interview process is less focused on the output of that work, and more focused on the 'how' behind ho...
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Ashley Faus
Atlassian Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Portfolio1y
Hopefully, there's at least 1 public example of the messaging and positioning (like the company website and/or product tour). You can show the website as it exists today,...
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Teju Shyamsundar
Axonius Product Marketing | Formerly Microsoft, Veza, Okta2y
It’s tough to describe how you approach messaging and positioning without showcasing past work. I’d try to show real examples, even things you may feel are smaller projec...
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Abdul Rastagar
Sirona Marketing CEO of Sirona Marketing: GTM for healthcare and life sciences5y
Love this question! Obviously, always protect your employer’s confidential information. However, if you have done your work correctly, your messaging will inform all of ...
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Ajit Ghuman
Twilio Former Director of Product Management - Pricing & Packaging, CXP | Formerly Narvar, Medallia, Helpshift, Feedzai, Reputation.com5y
The success is positioning is about proving that your work made your employer known for something in the market. One of the most common ways PMMs do this is by showing ...
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