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What do you look for when you hire a Product Marketing Manager, Senior PMM and Director?

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  1. Lindsey Weinig
    Lindsey Weinig

    Twilio Director of Product Marketing • 4y

    Each role, level, and business requires a some nuance for product marketing hiring, but I generally focus on a few key characteristics. First, successful PMMs need to be able to prioritize in complex environments. Through ambiguity, constant change, and conflicting stakeholder pressures, effective PMMs have some sort of framework they use to weigh and decide rapidly what they should focus on and what goes in the backlog. Second, PMMs need to be influencial communicators. They need to build stron ...Read More

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  2. Steve Feyer
    Steve Feyer

    WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence • 8y

    We use a formal leveling rubric to evaluate levels. This is used across all market-facing roles, other than sales reps. To summarize a few of the key differences across levels: SENIOR MANAGER A Senior Manager independent works cross-functionally; a Manager does not. A Senior Manager can independently update their task list to reflect company/department goals; a Manager cannot without help. A Senior Manager can independently learn and reflect industry best practice; a Manager has to be trained. A ...Read More

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