What is the career path from sales development to product marketing? Is it a direct path?
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 8y
No, it's definitely not a direct path. SDR is the classic entry level tech job. It's good to get your feet wet. The good ones will get promoted to SDR team lead or inside...
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Stealth Founder | Formerly Oracle, Lacework, Stackery, New Relic, Juniper Networks, IDC, @stake • 7y
I came really close to hiring an SDR into marketing not too long ago. He was known within the SDR group as "most able to get a response" and one of his key roles was goin...
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Zendesk Senior Director, Technology Marketing and Communications • 6y
In my experience, I’ve never seen Sales → Product Marketing as a direct path, but like someone else asked about here, it’s definitely one you can pursue and I think many ...
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