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Jen Vaccaro McParland

Jen Vaccaro McParland

Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations, Okta

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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations10mo
Materials most valuable for SaaS sales enablement include:Maturity model: build a maturity model for your domain and a questionnaire to assess where customers fit on that...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations10mo
To measure content usage and effectiveness within the sales process, I recommend tools like: Highspot to track downloads, feedback, and engagement in the process. A centr...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations10mo
Content for Effective Monthly Sales UpdatesContent I recommend including in effective monthly sales updates includes:Win stories: Detail customer challenges, key solution...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations10mo
The most effective ways to work with sales engineering for a technical product include:Build reference architectures: Have your PMM, Technical Marketing, or PM teams docu...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst RelationsApr 30
The metric many PMMs overlook is whether sales reps actually use the messaging without being told to. Pipeline numbers matter, but adoption is the leading indicator.Here'...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst RelationsApr 30
Frameworks are guides, not scripture. The mistake I see most often is PMMs treating classic frameowrks like a fill-in-the-blank exercise instead of a thinking aid.How I r...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations10mo
To create a repository of enablement material that actually gets used:Build a central company pitch book that includesTop personas in your market, what they care about, a...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst RelationsApr 30
Start with conversations.Talk to 10 customers who recently bought. Ask why they switched, what they almost bought instead, and what they'd tell a peer. Record everything...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst RelationsApr 30
Validation shifts as the product matures. What "landing" means at launch isn't what it means at scale.Pre-launch: UX panels with ICP buyers. Internal "explain it back" te...
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Jen Vaccaro McParland
Okta Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst RelationsApr 30
Compelling messaging spreads without you pushing it. Everything else is a leading indicator.Tests my team runs:The Gong parrot test. In your next 10 discovery calls, coun...
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Credentials & Highlights
Senior Manager, Product Marketing & Analyst Relations at Okta
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Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Top 10 Product Marketing Contributor
Knows About Competitive Positioning, Messaging Strategy, Message Testing, Go-To-Market Strategy, ...more
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