What is Growth Product Marketing and how is it different? What are ways a PMM can demonstrate expertise in Growth PMM?

Traditional Product Marketing and Growth Product Marketing should be complementary functions. When done successfully, a Growth Product Marketing team will be more focused on rapid experimentation and growing user engagement metrics, and less focused on product development and product launches. And vice-versa for the traditional PMM team. Both teams will still engage in consumer insights, research, analytics, and planning activities equally.  That said, both teams will likely do all the activitie ...Read More

Growth Product Marketing focuses on driving feature adoption, activation and retention while Product Marketing is focused on the initial product launch and go-to-market moment. The primary goal of Growth Product Marketing is to help customers achieve the "realized value" of the product and maintain "ongoing value" to prevent customers from churning. This is accomplished through ongoing tactics such as implementing growth experiments, executing adoption campaigns through channels like SEO, SEM, e ...Read More

Growth can mean different things in different orgs. In some orgs, a growth person owns acquiring new users (with performance marketing or ads, and so forth). In other orgs, growth helps with proposing and testing different growth levers (e.g., an invite-a-friend option in-app, adding signup-for-free CTAs to collaboration opportunities such as an email a Calendly meeting invitee receives). Sometimes, growth owns the lifecycle marketing from signup to first-time user experience in app to emails an ...Read More

Growth Product Marketing is an emerging role, especially impactful at companies that have a strong Growth Product arm. As a Growth PMM, you should be mapped to a Growth Product team and support the team in the same ways that a traditional PMM does. As a Growth PMM you’ll be working closely with the Growth Product team on experiments, tests, and research to improve user metrics. As a point of distinction, I wouldn’t expect a Growth PMM to be doing a ton of “big launches” for core products. To dem ...Read More

Growth product marketing is a specialized type of product marketing that focuses on driving the adoption and growth of the product by leveraging data, experimentation, and optimization to identify and test new growth opportunities.  Growth product marketing is different from traditional product marketing in that it is more data-driven, focused on experimentation and optimization, and focused on identifying and pursuing growth opportunities, rather than just launching and promoting the product. A ...Read More