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Who do you typically obtain launch goals from within the organization, especially when matrixes. For example a GM of a business unit, the Product Manager for a Product and the Product Marketing Manager.

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  1. Mary Sheehan
    Mary Sheehan

    Adobe Head of Lightroom Product Marketing | Formerly Google, AdRoll • 6y

    Ideally, it's a combination of the GM, product management and product marketing. The GM would set the overall business goals for the year or quarter including revenue. The PM often drives the product launch adoption and revenue goals for that product. PMM often builds the plan with the metrics to help back into those goals. 

    The important thing is that if you see a gap, make sure that someone is owning all of these goals, otherwise, it will be meaningless to have launch metrics. 

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  2. Christy Roach
    Christy Roach

    AirOps CMO • 4y

    This is one of those times that PMM’s role as a “connector” shines most brightly. There are so many teams involved in a launch, and usually, they have differences in their POV on what the launch should do. I get goal ideas, questions, and suggestions from across the org, but I’ve worked to keep PMM from being a team that’s “given” goals, and instead made our team one that influences our priorities, connects work happening across the org, and leads the conversation around goal setting. There are ...Read More

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  3. I will answer this based on my experience as a Product Manager. All of them define goals for launches. The Product Manager will set the product vision and define the goals to achieve that vision. With the vision goal in hand, the Product Marketer will use the product strategy to develop the go-to-market plan. Both need to be integrated and have consistent communication. The ideal is always to align early on strategy, goals, and responsibilities and clearly define each.

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