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Claudia Michon

Claudia Michon

Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing at Airtable

San Francisco, CA

I'm a marketing leader who's spent the past 19 years building brands and launching products across tech, CPG, non-profit, hospitality, and fashion. I bring a breadth of industry experience across B2C and B2B marketing to expertly develop, position and launch products to a variety of segments - connecting customers to the solutions they need to grow their business. I'm passionate about AI, automation, and digital experiences that make tech more human.

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

Generative AI is a tool, an assistive technology. We all need to keep this in mind, especially leaders who erroneously think how they can replace their people with this tech. Why is this the case? The tech (today) cannot do one critical thing - creative, strategic thinking. It's dumb. It can serve data and knowledge, but it doesn't have wisdom. What makes the best PMMs is wisdom, having the ability to harness past experiences, customer needs, and sales requests, understand the market and the tec ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

Massively. Automation Anywhere is a generative AI-powered platform, so my team and I must constantly read what's happening in the market to keep up. It has to be a range of sources, from data science influencers to the latest launches and campaigns. On an operational level, we are building GPTs (or Apps) that support the basic PMM tasks we'd love to offload. I'm about to update our OKRs to include the development of GPTs to support various functions. My leads work with our IT teams to add these ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

Every PMM needs to become AI-literate. If you're an IC, you need to think about how to use AI to help you scale. If you're a manager, you need to think about how it can help your team scale. If you're a senior leader, you need to think about how it can help your company scale - and even transform your industry. Today most of the top martech platforms are building generative AI tools into their functionality, but that's not enough. PMMs should always be reading about how the tech works, how it's ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

When you have feature parity, it sometimes comes down to execution. Here are some levers you can use to break away from the pack: "Ours is just better." Explain why it's easier, more accurate, more flexible, more cost-effective, faster, etc. Find ways to shine a light on why your flavor is the right choice. Customer success. Nothing is more powerful than proof of adoption and examples of use cases and success. Give it a great brand and positioning. Make up a new category. The world of AI is the ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 1y

Being a newcomer is a great opportunity to ask questions and understand how things work or have worked in the past. Start with a series of 1:1s with key stakeholders across product, marketing and sales functions. Approach each one with a sense of friendly curiosity and openness so you can both build good rapport as well as understand with whom and how to engage. Map out key stakeholders across product, marketing and sales that are key to successful product marketing Set up a series of 1:1s to in ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

Yes! It's really helped me speed up my work. I have a template that's attached to this AMA that gives examples of how to do exactly this. The rule of "garbage in, garbage out" totally applies to generative AI tools, models, and LLMs. With RAG, you can enrich your GPTs with relevant data for your customers, products, industry, and competitors to tune a model to become more relevant. Example source content: Persona cards Messaging frameworks Sample content (blog posts, customer interviews) Industr ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

Dropping in some resources from a previous response! Helpful Tip and Resources Follow Andrew Ng on LinkedIn for thought leadership on the tech Subscribe to the TLDR newsletters for Marketing and AI Podcast: The Artificial Intelligence Show Watch events and read the blogs of the top players in the space (OpenAI, Google, AWS, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Anthropic) Use AI to master AI - chat with ChatGPT and ask questions like, "Explain RAG to me like I'm in high school" or "Give me 10 ways to use gene ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 1y

In general, it's good to have a high level of visibility for cross-functional initiatives so that success or failure is shared across teams. This creates a joint sense of ownership and incentivizes on time delivery. I'm new in my current role and am working with other dept leaders to establish a cross-functional launch process that cuts across every DRI that contributes to a launch - from engineers and product designers to content marketers. We will have multiple workstreams across different alt ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

As I answered in another question, generative AI is an assistive technology. It's basically in the toddler stage. It's terrible at critical thinking and creative problem-solving. That is the key skill set of a good PMM. I think the tech is going to be an incredible accelerant for PMMs. But I will say that all knowledge work is going to change dramatically as many of the basic tasks will be picked up by AI. I don't know what this will mean for the future of knowledge work. There are many predicti ...Read More

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Claudia Michon
Claudia Michon

Airtable Former Head of Product and Solutions Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, L'Oreal, Godiva Chocolatier • 2y

Our superstar enablement team is in the process of piloting a custom tool that will just get better over time! We're also leveraging new features of our LMS and enablement platforms. Whatever tool you use, remember to crawl, walk, and then run. You'll learn a lot about seller behavior and adoption to iterate on your next version. Search: Enable sellers to more intuitively find a piece of content. Discover: Create a knowledge base for sellers to search for on-demand answers. Evaluate: Automate sa ...Read More

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