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What does an industry product marketing manager need to be exceptional at compared to product marketing manager?

With my industry product marketers, I nurture the development of a set of skills that I feel differentiate them. These are the skills I feel an industry product marketer ...
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Priya Gill
Iterable Chief Marketing Officer4y
PMMs and Industry PMMs are very similar in terms of the core skill sets needed to be successful in their roles. The biggest difference is that they need to intimately und...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle4y
Generally, I'd say two things: 1) having enough familiarity and understanding of an industry to know how to craft a message that lands with a given audience and avoid mis...
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Grant Shirk
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Cisco Campus Network Experiences | Formerly Tellme Networks, Microsoft, Box, Vera, Scout RFP, and Sisu Data, to name a few.3y
Internal evangelism and industry expertise. Yes, you need all the core PMM skills. You might even need to be a stronger writer and positioner than the core PMM. But if ...
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Sina Falaki
AlphaSense Senior Director, Solution Marketing | Formerly Procore, Motive3y
Storytelling, bringing the customer vision to life, and having a wide variety of skillsets (I always love ex-entrepreneurs) is vital for an industry marketer to be except...
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Zachary Reiss-Davis
Dusty Robotics Head of Marketing4y
All product marketers, no matter their focus area, need to understand both their product and their buyer -- but industry marketers tend to overindex on understanding the ...
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Julie Vasquez
Motive Product Marketing Lead3y
Industry product marketers need to have a solid knowledge of the pain points and needs for the audience they serve and be able to translate product benefits into customer...
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Matt DeLaney
GitLab Senior Product Marketing Manager, Industries | Formerly LaunchDarkly, SnapLogic, Tableau8mo
Industry PMMs must:Have a comprehensive understanding of the entire product suiteBe exceptional at influencing and building relationships with SalesBe especially knowledg...
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