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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 5y
I break it down as follows: product marketing's main role in sales enablement is to educate salespeople on the target customers/market segments/buyer personas & needs...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y
As a PMM, I was always conducting my own wide-ranging research about competitors and market dynamics (competitive and market intelligence) and providing this to PM. This ...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
Rare is the engineering leader today who has never worked with product managers. The issue is that sometimes they misunderstand what modern product management looks like:...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y
In general, PM KPIs tend to be further down-funnel and PMM KPIs are further up-funnel. PM's KPIs are about utilization / adoption of products or features, including repea...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 5y
If you are literally looking to stay in product marketing or marketing (and already have a job in the field) then I would agree with the other posters that an MBA is not ...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y
This is a great question. I've transitioned from PM to PMM and back again, so I can give you my perspective on both. The biggest challenges for anyone moving into PM, wh...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
I try to focus a product team on the most pressing areas that only PM can do. Our job is to create unique leverage for the company, not try to do everyone's job. So for e...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 2y
It can vary from not-terribly-technical to quite technical. This depends on how complex your product is and how much the nuances of that complexity matter to the user's s...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
To me, this is less a question of literally number of PM bodies to engineering bodies; that depends on the company, its context, the complexity of its products, and many ...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 3y
I used to be very much on the side of "PMM should own pricing" but I will now caveat this with a couple considerations. First off, though, I think at a smaller company, ...
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Senior Director of Product Management at Chainguard
Product Management AMA Contributor
Lives In Portland, OR