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Kelly Kipkalov

Kelly Kipkalov

Vice President Product Marketing, Carta
👋 Kelly Kipkalov
Hi all, I'm Kelly Kipkalov, Vice President Product Marketing @ Carta:

• 👋 Based in: San Francisco Bay Area
• 🧠 Top of mind: Writing effective SKO presentations!
• 💬 Ask me about: PMM career paths
• 🍦 Fun fact: My maiden name is Smith. I met my husband in Russia and couldn't wait to get rid of my very generic last name. :)

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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
Customer quotes are incredibly validating for prospects considering your product. One practice I've seen though is for marketers to build customer stories or quotes that ...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
100% ground yourself in the data. I would start with a full analysis of the funnel to diagnose where you went wrong before making any changes to GTM. It’s possible that...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing2y
I'm going to answer your question slightly differently. PMMs can acquire skills as they develop in their careers, that's a given. So when I hire PMMs, I'm not just look...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
Anything by Trout and Ries (ancient, I realize), or April Dunford. April's 'Obviously Awesome' book is an quick and fascinating read, and while it focusses on positionin...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing9mo
At Carta, we tend to take a very scrappy approach to qual: we use email to recruit, and Zoom for interviews, Miro or Figjam to document and sometimes crowdsource the ta...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
Based on the language you used in your question, I think you already know the answer! Balance is the right word because the leading and lagging indicators measure very d...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing9mo
I always start with a research brief to lay out the objectives and key questions we want answered and then socialize that with cross functional stakeholders to make sure ...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
One thing I’ve done to ensure quality and consistency of messaging as it gets rolled out is to convert my PMM messaging framework into approved copy (with the help of cop...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
The components of the GTM strategies my team works on include:Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)Problem statementSolution descriptionWhy the problem is worth solving, and why n...
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Kelly Kipkalov
Carta Vice President Product Marketing1y
I don’t see GTM strategy as varying by product type to be totally honest. When I read your question, I had to think back on my journey first as a packaged goods marketer...
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President Product Marketing at Carta
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Top 10 Product Marketing Contributor
Knows About Messaging, Category Creation, Product Launches, Go-To-Market Strategy, Product Market...more