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Alina Fu
Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director), Microsoft
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • January 24
If I could only pick 3, it would be: * Storytelling * Competitive insights * Customer-obsessed Telling a story isn’t just filling out a messaging and positioning framework but about being able to pitch a narrative on why status quo is broken, paint what that world would look like, and why yo......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • January 24
Every company has its own system or values that they look for during candidate review. During interviews, especially at larger enterprise companies, the recruiter or hiring manager usually has a rubric that assesses how much the candidate fulfills the criteria. Here are what stands out for me in......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • January 24
Like any good first meeting, ask yourself some discovery questions: 1. What do I enjoy doing the most at work? 2. Why do I want to get into product marketing? 3. What products do I think are marketed well? Why? 4. What products can be marketed better? How would I market it differently? 5. D......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • January 24
I think that depends on the hiring manager. I would even go so far as to suggest maybe you haven’t found the right role or HM who is looking for that broad horizontal PMM or you may be under-leveling yourself. As you become more senior, that is when the broad horizontal PMM skills come into play.......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • November 30
ABM is a topic that is near and dear to my heart, as we just announced 7 new ABM integrations and hosted a webinar about ABM strategies. Data-driven marketing has extended beyond analytics, social, SEO/SEM, and A/B testing into insights and 3rd party data on customers’ wants and needs to tailor ......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • January 24
How much do you trust your manager/management chain? I’ve had direct reports who share their career aspirations with me, even if it’s a role outside of my team, and I count myself lucky that they trust me enough to share that. When they did, I would put them on projects that would expose them ......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • November 30
This one is challenging because I’ve witnessed year long integrations from newly acquired products into the overall strategy, and even then, it wasn’t “fully” absorbed into the main strategy. First, I would recommend looking at the reasons why this product came under the fold. What was the visio......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • November 30
I partner very closely with the VP of Rev Marketing to make sure we have a coordinated funnel strategy. We are in constant communication and alignment for acquisition, conversion and retention. In addition, product marketing measures deals influenced for attribution. Our product marketing team’s ......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • November 30
I take a relationship-based approach when I think about stakeholder management. I prefer to tailor my style to the individual, so it doesn’t matter as much which department but what type of personality they have and their communication preferences. For instance, a leader in department X may prefe......Read More
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Alina Fu
Microsoft Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) • November 30
Customer Success or Customer Marketing teams are your secret weapon when thinking about Positioning & Messaging frameworks and GTM strategy. Retention is a key metric for the business, so who better than Customer Success Managers or Customer Marketing leaders to represent the voice of the custome......Read More
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Credentials & Highlights
Head of Marketing for Viva Goals and Learning (Director) at Microsoft
Lives In San Jose, CA
Knows About Partner Product Marketing, Product Launches, Release Marketing, Product Marketing Car......more