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How did you work with the C-Suite, earlier in your career?

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Influencing the C-Suite
  1. Kayvan Dastgheib-Beheshti
    Kayvan Dastgheib-Beheshti

    Payscale VP, GTM Operations & Business Intelligence • 3y

    Earlier in my career exposure to the C-Suite was understandably in more controlled, scheduled environments. At an analyst level, and sometimes even at a manager level opportunities to directly connect with the C-Suite are few and far between. I am a firm believer that exposure matters.   It is the responsibility of every leader out there to look for opportunities to uplift and uplevel their teams by giving them the time in the spotlight. I had some notable mentors in the past who believed this a ...Read More

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  2. Ken Liu
    Ken Liu

    Redis Director - Global Sales Strategy & Operations | Formerly Databricks, Google • 3y

    I was fortunate enough to have access to client C-suite early in my career at Google when I was part of their ad sales teams. Within the sales team, I specialized in marketing analytics, where my job was to help calculate and present to clients the digital media ROI they would receive from investing with Google ad products. While in this role, I used some best practices that helped grant me access to the client C-suite, including: Understand what keeps the CXO up at night, and have an innovative ...Read More

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  3. Josh Chang
    Josh Chang

    HubSpot Director, GTM Strategy & Revenue Operations • 2y

    My early exposure was around projects where I was working to directly tie work we were doing in the Marketing org to company revenue and lifetime value. It was important to help the company quantify marketing efforts and calculate a true ROI view to help the C-Suite understand how we were optimizing and spending budget efficiently and how we could tie that back to the bottom line. I was given exposure to the C-Suite through this work, gradually learning how to take very technical or complex conc ...Read More

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