What are your top questions to ensure you are hiring the right product marketing candidates and why?
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Notion Head of Product Marketing • 3y
I like to frame questions in two parts.1) Walk me through (WMT) an example of...XYZ. I do several of these that each map to the key responsibilities I'm looking for. I wa...
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Virta Health Director of Product Marketing • 3y
Top questions depend a bit on the role since I always try to make sure each question is evaluating a specific competency tied to that job. (More on this below). That bein...
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Midi Health Go To Market & Principal PMM | Formerly Homebase, Angi, The Knot • 3y
I think a universal experience among product marketers is that the role and contribution of product marketing is highly dependent on the company or organization that you ...
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Enable VP of Product Marketing | Formerly Crossbeam, 6sense, JazzHR, Imagine Learning, Appsembler • 3y
Why product marketing?- Tells me their motivations. If they have a drive to serve customers and a discipline for storytelling, it'll shine through. If not, I'll know it's...
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Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle • 2y
These may seem overly simplistic, but I've found these to be effective even when interviewing for senior PMM roles:Tell me about your current/last company - what do they ...
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Visual Layer S.Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Lytx, Cisco, Snyk, Lightrun, Comeet,Coro • 3y
These are my questions - aiming to understand that even the most junior of candidates has an overall understanding of what the job really is all about. What does GTM stra...
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