Product Marketing
Product Launches

Product Launches

Morgan (Molnar) Lehmann
SurveyMonkey Senior Director, Head of Corporate Marketing | Formerly SurveyMonkey, Nielsen1y
The release date is not the launch date - they can and often should be different.At SurveyMonkey, we distinguish between when a product is released and when it's launched...
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Kuber Sharma
UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, MicrosoftTue
Stacie and Don cover the "bring comms in early" principle well. Where I've seen this get complicated at enterprise scale is the exact point of handoff and who owns what a...
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What do you use for internal Product Launch Process Alignment?
I am looking for a framework to use internally with executive stakeholders to align on a product launch process. Does anyone have a framework they have used successfully?
Alex Rodrigues
Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo1y
Aligning on a product launch process internally avoids last-minute surprises and ensures launches have the most impact. Here's the framework I’ve found most effective:1. ...
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How can PMMs adapt GTM plans as early assumptions break down after launch?
Lately, I’ve found myself revisiting GTM docs I wrote just 6 weeks ago — and questioning half of it. Most GTM plans are built on early signals: 👉 A few conversations with users 👉 Feedback from beta testers 👉 Initial market research But then you launch. Your assumptions meet reality — and sometimes, they don’t hold up. Your ICP starts looking different The messaging that resonated in interviews falls flat So the real question is: How do you integrate what you’ve learned — without rewriting everything from scratch?
Kuber Sharma
UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, MicrosoftApr 19
The best framing I have found for this is to stop thinking of the GTM plan as a document and start thinking of it as a set of hypotheses you are testing in real time.I ha...
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Kuber Sharma
UiPath Sr. Director of Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Tableau, MicrosoftApr 15
The honest answer from running launches at enterprise scale: the most cost-effective channel is almost always the one you already own but are underusing. Let me break dow...
196 Views
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Julien Sauvage
Clari VP, Brand, Content and Product Marketing2y
Same as everyone else. Do more or better with less.With that, we all have to stay extremely focused on:Team and individual business impact (not activity)Team's morale and...
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What do you use or do to get people to buy into your positioning plans and consistently using them?
The product marketers job typically revolves around positioning a product. Sometimes, it can be difficult to align sales, marketing, and product teams around your positioning.
Marcus Andrews
Conveyor Head of Marketing6y
Product marketing is often defined as the people who position the products, but I think it's as equally important (especially as you grow bigger) that Product Marketing i...
5348 Views
Anthony Abdulla
Advantage Group International Senior Product Marketing Leader | Platform Positioning & GTM | Formerly Pegasystems, ZoomInfo, IBM1mo
I've watched good products fail at launch. Not because the product wasn't ready, but because the go-to-market wasn't.Sales leadership isn't bought in. You can have the be...
169 Views
Nil Onal
WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead1mo
Metrics should always be a reflection of the specific outcomes we’re trying to drive. I like to use the "Goal, Track, and Guardrail" framework:The Goal (The North Star): ...
395 Views
Nil Onal
WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead1mo
I calibrate my approach based on the strategic stakes of the launch. Examples where full-scale positioning may be needed:  Zero-to-One Features: When you’re establishing...
407 Views
Nil Onal
WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead1mo
Risk mitigation is a critical part of GTM planning! Here’s how I approach  it: Paint the "What Could Go Wrong" Picture: Before a rollout, you need a clear view of your r...
458 Views
Nil Onal
WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead1mo
I’m a big fan of theming launches, but I don’t anchor them on product pillars. Instead, I focus on narratives that drive top-line preference and brand love. Here’s how I ...
571 Views
Nil Onal
WhatsApp Consumer Product Marketing Lead1mo
A good user acquisition strategy starts with full-funnel thinking and diagnosing where the biggest opportunity is before jumping to Marketing execution.  Here is my go-to...
9447 Views
Alex Rodrigues
Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo1mo
Battle cards are more important than ever in the AI era, because there are more 'tire kickers' and customers are asking more comparison questions — specific, detailed bat...
545 Views
Alex Rodrigues
Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo1mo
Product experience and speed matter — pushing for craft and polish in the product itself creates differentiation that customers feel viscerally.Storytelling is the PMM se...
538 Views
Alex Rodrigues
Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo1mo
Sentiment — measured through social listening, invites, and referrals — is a leading indicator most teams overlook.There are multiple ways to measure sentiment: 1. **Soc...
524 Views
Bhavika Thakkar
Microsoft Sr. Director of Product Marketing & Growth- Copilot | Formerly Adobe, GoDaddy, Xero1mo
Launching a completely new experience with big PR coverage before the product was truly ready — guardrail metrics were way below threshold — highlighted that PMMs need a ...
518 Views
JD Prater
Ting VP of Marketing1mo
Use the PR FAQ framework to align internally, and consider founder-led PR as an alternative channel — not everything deserves a press release.Additional strategies: 1. *...
509 Views
Chandra Patel
Salesforce Senior Director of Product Marketing1mo
Always anchor on differentiation ('why is doing it here better?'), align your go-to-market stakeholders early, hone your ICP, and use pilot customers to build real custom...
520 Views
Alex Rodrigues
Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo1mo
Find the small but real points of differentiation within the parity feature, and don't oversell it — communicate honestly about what was built and why it's great.Key stra...
534 Views
Alex Rodrigues
Superhuman Senior Director, Head of Product Marketing, Mail | Formerly Google, Plaid, early Venmo1mo
AI enables hyper-personalization at scale and gives PMMs new superpowers to influence stakeholders and drive outcomes across the organization.Two key additions to the mix...
548 Views
Ali McCourt Turhal
ClassDojo Head of Product Marketing1mo
Honestly this is where most teams fall down, including ones I've been on. The launch gets all the energy and then the day after it ships everyone moves to the next thing....
435 Views
Gray Hardell
Iterable Head of Product Marketing1mo
Revenue. Both in terms of new business and expansion. If you only measure pipeline, you'll miss the thing the board really cares about. Remember that AI revenue is curren...
371 Views
Gray Hardell
Iterable Head of Product Marketing1mo
Lead with empathy and don't oversell. We have to remember that the AI-washing that's gone on has made buyers wary of the promises of AI capabilities. Think about the asso...
413 Views
Gray Hardell
Iterable Head of Product Marketing1mo
NotebookLM should be your go-to one-stop shop for your cross-functional teams to get what they need to run their workstreams. Instead of making people dig through messagi...
397 Views
Brandon Benke
CrowdStrike Director, Product Marketing1mo
AI capabilities can feel abstract to buyers, but this isn't a new problem for PMMs. Every major technology shift has required us to take something technically complex and...
421 Views
Brandon Benke
CrowdStrike Director, Product Marketing1mo
AI buzzword fatigue is real. PMMs feel it more than most because we're the ones closest to translating new capabilities into market-facing language. When every vendor is ...
427 Views
Brandon Benke
CrowdStrike Director, Product Marketing1mo
Launch tiering is one of the more challenging and honestly political parts of the PMM role, especially when you're supporting a single product area inside a larger organi...
419 Views
Shafiq Shivji
CloudBees VP of Product Marketing1mo
The two things that matter most are pipeline and adoption.On the pipeline side, I track the full funnel: MQLs generated, conversion to SQLs, and then conversion through e...
723 Views
Shafiq Shivji
CloudBees VP of Product Marketing1mo
In my humble opinion, the specific tool matters less than having a centralized system of record that people actually use.For launch planning, Google Sheets is my go-to. I...
404 Views
Shafiq Shivji
CloudBees VP of Product Marketing1mo
Early in my career, this was one of the most frustrating challenges I faced. I felt beholden to product timelines. Dates kept shifting, the GTM work was done, and none of...
1072 Views
Shafiq Shivji
CloudBees VP of Product Marketing1mo
Before discussing the how, let me address a common occurrence I’ve seen time and time again: customer proof turns into a last-minute scramble during a product launch. Cus...
470 Views
Ali McCourt Turhal
ClassDojo Head of Product Marketing1mo
Never.The earlier PMM is in the room the better the launch. Not because marketing needs to drive product decisions, but because the questions we ask, who is this for, why...
396 Views
Ali McCourt Turhal
ClassDojo Head of Product Marketing1mo
Oh I am the biggest fan of a scrappy no budget launch. They've been the rule not the exception in my career, and some of the best performing launches I've been part of ha...
421 Views
Ali McCourt Turhal
ClassDojo Head of Product Marketing1mo
The ability to distill complexity into a single, clear idea that makes someone immediately understand why they should care.Everything else, the channel plan, the creative...
383 Views
Ali McCourt Turhal
ClassDojo Head of Product Marketing1mo
Funny, I was just in a sync with my PM counterparts on exactly this. Being launch ready isn't a product question, it's a business question. The bar is whether the product...
861 Views
Ben Geller
Former Director, Product Marketing & Demand Generation at You.com | Formerly LinkedIn1mo
In B2B with a 6-18 month sales cycle, you can't wait for closed-won deals to tell the story of whether marketing is working. A few things that help:Measure upstream signa...
416 Views
When re-launching a product in the market through a different lens of value, how would you create the demand for it, and what campaigns would you run?
We're about a launch a new product that's creating a new category, but is largely solving some of the core issues with the "old way". Since it's potentially a "new way vs old way" narrative, how should I design marketing and sales to create demand and education for this product?
Austin Carroll
Brex Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Financial Product | Formerly Mercury, Capital One, Disney, Techstars2y
We did something similar at Brex with the launch of Brex Bill pay last summer. We had a simple Bill Pay product on our original platform, but were bringing it upmarket on...
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How does a GenAI enabled platform change your approach to customer segmentation?
In a short time, everything is different. Customer segmentation is a hard problem. Does your previous customer segmentation still work? Did you adapt it? Did you create anything new? Or is it still so early that you're still figuring it out?
Ben Geller
Former Director, Product Marketing & Demand Generation at You.com | Formerly LinkedIn1mo
GenAI has meaningfully changed customer segmentation—not the fundamentals, but the resolution at which you can execute.Pre-AI, ICP definition was largely firmographic. Yo...
474 Views
Ben Geller
Former Director, Product Marketing & Demand Generation at You.com | Formerly LinkedIn1mo
In enterprise, I love this definition for PMF: six customers within the same vertical, using the product for the same use case.The big trap in B2B, especially in AI right...
551 Views
How to educate the company of the importance of a structured product launch?
As a worker for a new ventures team in a Wellness Tech unicorn, I have to juggle the necessity to be fast and testing with a good and structured approach and pitch. Sometimes the sales team goes over my head and starts selling without proper alignment.
Lara McCaskill
Atlassian Senior Director, Head of Portfolio PMM, Strategy Collection | Formerly Amazon, Stitch Fix, Pandora1mo
Having product launches follow a set process is hugely beneficial for any team, especially a rapidly scaling one that is likely launching often. I like to start with what...
1502 Views
Jeremy Wood
Adobe Head of GTM Strategy, APAC & Japan1mo
I think the main ones end up being the tension between the companies urgency to launch a product in to market (this can come top down or just be something that has urgenc...
892 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
We launched a feature that we were really proud of, significant engineering investment, strong internal excitement, and the adoption was flat in the first 30 days. What ...
1499 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
Sales enablement, hands down.Everyone knows they need to do it. Almost nobody does it well under resource pressure. A good enablement program isn't just a sales deck and ...
676 Views
Courtney Kubitza
Gusto Head of Product Marketing, Accountants1mo
A few specific tactics that have worked:First, establish UTM discipline before launch, not after. Every asset, every email, every campaign needs tagged URLs so you can ac...
714 Views
Raina Srivastava
KiwiQ.AI Head of Marketing & GTM10mo
AI is transforming my GTM to be 80% strategy, 20 % execution - when it used to be the opposite. For GTM leaders at large companies like Adobe, Salesforce, Canva, and Ope...
463 Views
April Rassa
Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe1mo
I think about it in terms of ownership and altitude.Product management owns what we build and why.They define the problem, the roadmap, and the customer need.Product mark...
392 Views
April Rassa
Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe1mo
Let's see I would say there are probably 5 area to pay attention to:Positioning: Feature-led messaging instead of outcome-led positioningIf buyers cannot clearly articula...
399 Views
April Rassa
Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe1mo
This is a good one. Ideally, you need to adjust GTM when the data, the market, or the customer tells you the story is not landing or the motion is not working. It is not ...
386 Views
April Rassa
Celigo Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly HackerOne, Cohere, Box, Google, Adobe1mo
This is a pretty broad question and given the number of ways teams are experimenting with AI and GTM tools like Clay, Gong, 1mind, Caliber Mind, the options are endless g...
379 Views