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When thinking about adding new talent to your team, how do you structure focus areas like Customer lifecycle stage, Persona, Areas of the product and Functional expertise?

We only have one product at HoneyBook but PMM does a lot of different things, ie, lifecycle marketing, research, competitive, feature launches, etc.
Patrick Cuttica
Arrived Head of Product Marketing | Formerly Shopify, Square (Block), Sprout Social6y
This will vary from company to company depending on what industry you’re in, the make-up of your product portfolio, what your go-to-market and sales strategy looks like (...
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Tiffany Tooley
Workday Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, IBM, Silverpop, Blackboard4y
This is a fun question! I'd say you want to typically start with the Product first. If you have overlap, meaning one persona often purchases multiple products (especially...
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Katherine Kelly
Instructure Head of Product Marketing | Formerly ExactTarget (Salesforce Marketing Cloud), Zendesk, Slack, Salesforce3y
Ooo this is a great question. And I have a great answer - it depends! In all seriousness - I've long been a believer that there's no perfect model for a PMM team, it rea...
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Adam Kerin
Truepic VP of Marketing4y
Perhaps similar to HoneyBook, Truework has one core platform, but the fit within different industry verticals is completely different. Different features are the key sell...
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Andrew Stinger
Headway Staff Product Marketing Manager3y
The foundations of a strong Product Marketer are going to look and feel a lot like the foundations of a strong overall marketer: Can you connect as many of your target us...
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Ambika Aggarwal
Ironclad VP of Product Marketing2y
For smaller companies and start-ups PMMs will inevitably wear lots of hats and play more of a full stack role. Once the company grows and scales the role becomes more spe...
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Zachary Fox
Resultados Digitais Director of Product + Customer Marketing6y
We followed a somewhat similar path as Patrick and I couldn't agree more about thinking through all those aspects of the company, strategy, customer and product portfolio...
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Jasmine Jaume
Career & Leadership Coach/ Former Director, Product Marketing4y
When thinking about team structure and new roles, we think about 3 things:What does the business need? Are there areas we need to support better? New areas coming up we'l...
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Angus Maclaurin
BILL Senior Lead Product Manager4y
PMMs are often tied to specific products more than lifecycle stages. In general we aim for a 3:1 PMM to PM ratio - meaning the PMM needs to have deep knowledge about each...
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