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What are some of the challenges your product marketing team has faced collaborating with other teams and how have you overcome them?

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  1. Gagan Mand
    Gagan Mand

    Adobe Director, Product Marketing & Strategy • 1y

    Product marketing roles vary widely, but at its core, it’s about driving growth and retention. With that broad responsibility, collaboration is key, which can naturally lead to some friction. Here’s how I usually think about navigating it: GTM Execution Teams: This includes teams like Campaign marketing, PR, Branding, Web, and Analyst Relations, etc. The main challenge here is prioritizing sales tactics (for a single product) or distributing efforts and budgets across a product portfolio. Using ...Read More

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  2. Jeremy Wood
    Jeremy Wood

    Adobe Head of GTM Strategy, APAC & Japan • 1y

    This could be a really long response but I'll break it down into a few examples that stand out and/or are the most common. Role and Responsibility definition: More often than not one of the biggest hurdles to effective collaboration (including with PMM) is an ill defined or represented outline of roles and responsibilities across cross functional teams. This leads to confusion on 'who does what' and can lead to teams being territorial and thus non collaborative. If there are clear roles and its ...Read More

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