What's a typical product marketing career path?
Tremendous VP of Marketing • 5y
I don’t think there is a typical career path for Product Marketers. I personally started my career in investment banking and consulting and transitioned into a corporate ...
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AssemblyAI CMO • 6y
It’s hard to pinpoint “typical” because product marketing is a field that sets you up for a few different paths depending on what you want to do. Being a product marketer...
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OpenAI Head of Product Marketing, Apps • 6y
I think typical is atypical in PMM. I come from a background in brand before and have managed team members that came from consulting, manufacturing, advertising, as well ...
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That's a good question. I think it will vary based on when you start your career as a PMM and where. I've seen PMM leaders go on to be CMOs and founders, or successfully ...
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Verkada Vice President Product Marketing • 5y
I think there could be a number of career paths for PMM. In our team, we see everything from Sales (i.e, former AE), to Product Manager, to content marketer to solutions ...
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Forethought Senior Director, Head of Marketing • 4y
Great question! Product marketing has been getting a lot of attention recently as a top career choice for anyone interested in marketing or strategy, but the truth is eve...
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Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey • 11mo
Four career pathsGrow as a PMM. From Individual contributor to manager to director to VP, here you keep growing as you keep honing your PMM craft but eventually graduate ...
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Chewy Senior Director, Head of Global Marketing • 4y
Unlike highly specialized roles like Finance, Engineering or even HR that traditionally have vertical careers, I don’t believe Product Marketing has a typical career path...
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Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust • 8y
The product marketing part of the typical career is pretty straight forward. Generally, you will start as a Product Marketing Manaer. In larger orgs, you may take on a Sr...
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Well, that depends on the role. If you're writing a lot of content and not driving a lot of strategy, you probably should be a content marketer or a writer. If you own st...
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Salesforce Product Marketing Manager • 3y
I don't think there's a typical product marketing career path. But here are a few that I've seen: Marketers first: these folks can come from anywhere. Growth /demand gene...
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HiredScore Head of Product Marketing • 3y
Product Marketing is a highly strategic role and can add value to a number of positions. I think the most obvious choice is to progress from PMM to Head of PMM to VP Mark...
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Advisor & Investor | Product Marketing Expert | B2B | Formerly Pandadoc,Unbabel, McKinsey • 2y
There is no typical career path :) As a functional that interfaces and leverages cross-functional work and expertise across Marketing, Product, Sales, CS, and so on, you ...
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Square Product Lead • 8y
I see 3 product marketing career paths ways: Continue down the product marketing career path. At some point, you will be capped at a VP or Director of product marketing ...
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Zendesk Senior Director, Technology Marketing and Communications • 6y
The classic product marketing career path for those who want to stay in product marketing that I usually see in terms of roles and titles is PMM → Senior PMM → Group or P...
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There’s no one typical product marketing career path. Product marketers are often utility players, and get into product marketing from a wide range of backgrounds like co...
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