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I'm curious about the experience of others, which group has been harder to work with––Product or Sales? And why and how y'all work through issues?

Kaitlin Yount
LinkedIn Senior Director of Product Marketing, Trust5y
I’ve been in consumer businesses during my career as a Product Marketing so I can only speak to working with Product. I’ve had a lot of great experiences with Product par...
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Matt Kaufman
Cube Chief Marketing Officer5y
In short, neither. I wouldn't look at this as "harder to work with" as much as I'd suggest investigating how you set up your goals and expectations. Both product and sal...
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Clara Lee
PayPal VP, Product | Formerly Apple, Automattic, Deloitte5y
In most companies I've worked in, Product Marketing is often vastly outnumbered by Sales teams. The challenge is not usually in personalities or conflicting interests - b...
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Leah Brite
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Benefits4y
In my experience, it depends more on the actual people you work with vs the function. I have had both incredible sales and product partners that understood the big pictur...
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Jackie Palmer
ActiveCampaign VP Product Marketing | Formerly Pendo, Demandbase, Conga, SAP2y
I always say that Product and Sales should be the two best friends of Product Marketing! And I would say they both have their times when they are hard to work with or nee...
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