In terms of empowering your sales and success teams to get customers and prospects excited about upcoming features, how do you help them present the roadmap? Does product marketing create a roadmap deck that then gets shared out to the team?
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Writer Head of Solutions Marketing • 10mo
I love this question, bc you nailed it! Partner with sales and success to present the roadmap. I've worked with product to create a roadmap deck. In one organization, we ...
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Ironclad VP of Product Marketing • 10mo
PMM should absolutely own the narrative around the roadmap: what’s coming, why it matters, and how it connects to buyer/customer pain. But that narrative is crafted in pa...
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Square Product Lead, Payments • 5y
In almost all cases you want to have Product Marketing creating the roadmap deck and delivering it, rather than Product. There are two main reasons for this.First, some P...
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Altruist VP of Marketing • 5y
I answer a similar question further on, but at a high level a great way to preview the roadmap is part of annual or quarterly account health checks. In the past I’ve had ...
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The New York Times Vice President, Head of Product Marketing • 4y
Ideally, any roadmap shared with your sales team would be owned and presented by PMM. The sales team doesn’t just need to understand when a product will be released, but ...
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Suki AI Head of Product Marketing • 4y
The roadmap deck should be created by PM and PMM. Ultimately PM will have the best understanding of the upcoming features with dates of releases, but PMM is responsible f...
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Self Employed Product Marketing Leadership (Interim & Fractional) | Formerly Xero, Karbon, ApprovalMax • 2mo
I don’t think the question is whether PMM creates a roadmap deck, but how that roadmap shows up in real customer conversations. In practice, the roadmap itself matters fa...
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