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Jon Rooney

Jon Rooney

Vice President Product Marketing, Box

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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing
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In this playbook, you will hear how a structured, disciplined approach to messaging can power a successful launch. In a previous role, where my team was responsible for launching a critical new product, we had to find out how to position the new product amidst expectations and biases around adjac...Read More
Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle3y
For new senior PMM hires (like Sr. Director/Director team leads), I think of 30-60-90 plans to follow a basic flow: assess (30 days), design (60 days), run (90 days). D...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle1y
If you're landing 1st round interviews, that means your LinkedIn profile/resume looks good and covers the experience/skills/work experience needed for your targeted roles...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle1y
The best way to balance research, content and GTM needs is to make sure you're not pursuing any area (research and content, in particular) for it's own sake - it's someti...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle1y
If someone has at least some work experience, the most important questions I ask are along the lines of "tell me about your previous/current company - what do they do? Wh...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle1y
The most common mistake I've seen from product marketers during job interviews is mistaking information for messaging. Especially for more senior roles, your main job as ...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle1y
If you're pivoting from another function into product marketing, map out tasks or responsibilities that you've done in your current and recent roles directly to a PMM's c...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle6y
Some years ago, I was running a PMM team at Splunk when we introduced a new product that was a persona-driven solution for IT built on top of the core platform - it even ...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle6y
When I was at New Relic, the PMM team was organized by buying center/persona with a platform team that worked on foundational capabilities and use cases. Rolling out new ...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle6y
Selling to developers can be difficult, often because they have a ton of say over the decision but not explicitly the budget, but marketing to developers is simpler than ...
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Jon Rooney
Box Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle6y
The early work Twilio did to quickly convey what the service did and who it's for then get developers to dig into the product and have an a-ha moment with a couple of lin...
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President Product Marketing at Box
Formerly Splunk, New Relic, Microsoft, Unity, Oracle
Top Product Marketing Mentor List
Top 10 Product Marketing Contributor
Lives In San Francisco, CA
Knows About Industry Product Marketing, Vertical Product Marketing, Messaging, Product Marketing ...more
Work At Box
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Developer Platform
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