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What's the biggest challenge you've ever faced as a product marketing leader and how did you overcome it?

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  1. Rinita Datta
    Rinita Datta

    Splunk Director, Product Marketing | Formerly Morgan Stanley • 1y

    The biggest challenge I’ve faced and continue to navigate as a marketing leader is growing, supporting, and leading my team through uncertainty and change. Over the past year, we’ve experienced several organizational shifts, including layoffs and departures, impacting project timelines, team bandwidth, and morale. In that time, my scope and responsibilities expanded as I inherited functions outside my original remit. I must balance strategic leadership with rolling my sleeves as a hands-on contr ...Read More

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  2. Pallavi Vanacharla
    Pallavi Vanacharla

    JFrog SVP Product Marketing | Formerly Twilio, Cisco, Intuit • 5y

    Let me answer a slightly different question, the one that does not get asked often - what are the biggest mistakes you have made and what did you learn from them? I have seen many successes in my career, but they were made stronger from the lessons I learnt (from my mistakes). Here are 3 mistakes that come to my mind right now. Idealistic PMM - When I was younger, I used to think that for a product to be truly successful you need great positioning. Not true at all. One of my competitor’s CEO was ...Read More

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  3. Julien Sauvage
    Julien Sauvage

    Clari VP, Brand, Content and Product Marketing • 2y

    People not understanding the function.

    I would overcome that by overcommunicating about our function, vision, ownership areas, scope, impact (not activity!) and plan.

    And then

    • Seek 3rd party validation (analyst mentions, etc.)

    • Seek shoutouts from other orgs

    • Raise your public profile

    • Show that you’re BFF with Sales or Product or CS

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