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Eric Petitt

Eric Petitt

Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor

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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
Our founders have created our product messaging based on their ideas. How do we get them to give product marketing more control over messaging?
Your founders will have a stronger org when they eventually trust product marketing with more control over messaging. If you can, start with research. Talk to prospects and customers and show how they respond to different approaches. And test and learn. If you have an existing audience base, you ...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
How do product marketing key stakeholders from other departments change as your company grows?
I’m not certain the stakeholders and leverage have changed much in my experience with different company sizes, although resources clearly do. As you grow from startup to tween/teen and mature, the stakeholders diversify with the added resources that come from business growth. Sophia and I have ge...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
Why do you think the turnover for product marketing jobs is so high?
It is interesting you say that, because my colleague Sophia and I were talking about it and have felt like there’s been a bit of a renaissance in PMM hiring right now. Organizations seem to get the value of PMM more than ever. Maybe tech companies are getting some marketing religion - they can’t ...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
What are some ways that junior and newer pmms can get greater exposure to the c-suite?
(This answer from my fearless colleague Sophia Fox) As a junior pmm, recommend being strategic about the types of projects you work on, and in what capacity. Cannot emphasize enough taking the initiative to seek out and work with your manager and cross-functional partners to identify where pmm ca...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
How do you drive alignment across the exec team on messaging
To drive alignment, make something that execs can respond to. Recently, I created an example “future state” pitch deck to articulate a future narrative for Glassdoor. It wasn’t perfect, but it helped drive discussion and alignment on overall company positioning and direction. But in general, mak...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
Product Marketers often get pulled in several directions and everything feels urgent. How do we work with our CMO and Exec team to help narrow down what we focus on?
Product marketing is so often misunderstood, and a lot of CMO’s didn’t grow up with it so they don’t particularly understand it. Still other CMO’s struggle with the PMM orgs that seem to spend more time on things they can’t see or aren’t held accountable for inside their own marketing org. And, l...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
How do you ensure alignment when you have two senior executive stakeholders who disagree with each other on the proposed strategy and you are stuck in the middle?
Getting senior alignment is a key strategic role for PMM - we can be powerful bridges and connectors. Whenever there is a clear difference of opinion the best thing I’ve found is to bring the customer more fully into the room. Bring research to bear on the problem. You can be a powerful tiebreake...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
I just joined a new company, and their pitch decks are AWFUL and the sales teams are losing deals because of poor pitches. I'm working with a few key stakeholders to create better pitch decks, but several CSuite team members are apprehensive about trying something new because we'll be filing for IPO soon. They'd rather be consistently bad, then differently good. Any advice for how to get the Csuite team to see that trying a new pitch deck is worth it?
If I was an exec at your company, I’d want to understand what is awful about this pitch (share research, client feedback?), what evidence you can provide that it is hurting my business (do an a/b pilot?), and what you think good looks like (comparative/competitive examples?). If you brought that ...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
How to add value to a product team that isn't used to working with a PMM? In what ways to you see (or recommend) product marketers build trust with their XFN partners?
First, this is so hard! I have been through a few turns of this and candidly I’d say not every company is ready. There are companies that are just not ready to have a strategic pmm org. Maybe their product org is still maturing, or not on secure footing for some reason. It is especially hard to h...more
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Eric Petitt
Eric Petitt
Vice President, Marketing, Glassdoor
How do you influence the c-suite to get more resources?
It starts with making sure the c-suite knows where you fit in to business outcomes. What are your OKR’s for the quarter, for the year? Is there a straight line between your priorities and the key opportunities for the company? Have you shared them? The second is making sure you are being heard. ...more
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President, Marketing at Glassdoor
Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Influencing the C-Suite
Lives In San Francisco
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