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What's a typical product marketing career path?

Dana Barrett
Tremendous VP of Marketing5y
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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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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Brandon McGraw
OpenAI Head of Product Marketing, Apps6y
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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Indy Sen
Canva GTM Advisor/Fractional Leader/Author | Formerly Google, Salesforce, Box, Mulesoft, WeWork, Matterport, Canva6y
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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Priyanka Srinivasan
Verkada Vice President Product Marketing5y
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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Ryan Van Wagoner
Forethought Senior Director, Head of Marketing4y
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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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey11mo
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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Francisco M. T. Bram
Chewy Senior Director, Head of Global Marketing4y
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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Mike Flouton
Boxford Capital Managing Partner | Formerly Barracuda, SilverSky, Digital Guardian, OpenPages, Cybertrust8y
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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Feng Hong
TikTok Global Product Marketing Manager8y
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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Juliet F. Rizek
Salesforce Product Marketing Manager3y
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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Tracy Montour
HiredScore Head of Product Marketing3y
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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🟧 Hugo H. Macedo 🟧
Advisor & Investor | Product Marketing Expert | B2B | Formerly Pandadoc,Unbabel, McKinsey2y
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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Carrie Zhang
Square Product Lead8y
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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Teresa Haun
Zendesk Senior Director, Technology Marketing and Communications6y
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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Robin Pam
Stripe Product Marketing Lead8y
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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