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What level of hard/technical skills should someone aim to develop to thrive in product marketing?

Ivan Dwyer
Material Security Senior Director of Product Marketing5y
I’m a huge proponent of Jobs To Be Done, both for building products and for marketing products – in product marketing, though, you don’t necessarily have to be able to do...
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James Fang
Klaviyo Director of Product Marketing | Formerly LaunchDarkly, mParticle, Okta3y
Great PMM teams have balance, across the dimensions of positioning & messaging, communication, industry depth, and technical expertise. It's rare to find the "unicorn...
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Lauren Craigie
Inngest Head of Marketing1y
I’ve only sold in B2B tech, so speaking from that POV I would say hard skills should include The tools your marketing peers use—Marketo, Demandbase, 6Sense, etc, particul...
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Steve Feyer
WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence8y
I don't believe that any technical skills are required in product marketing. However there are a few caveats to that blanket statement. You should be as technically pro...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle3y
As a product marketer, you should strive to have the same degree of functional understanding and empathy as a product manager and the same ability to contextualy step thr...
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