Manav Tandon
Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS, Cisco
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In a career spanning 15+ years, I have accumulated a breadth of experience across business strategy, GTM strategy, product management and product marketing. I have helped organizations build innovative products, identify growth opportunities, ente......more
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
Here's a non-comprehensive list of KPIs to choose from: * Launch content * # of press articles mentioning your product * # of views on blog posts * # of visitors to landing pages * # of downloads of gated content * # of social media post impressions * # of users adopting......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
Build relationships with your stakeholders in Product Management, Sales and other Marketing teams (Content, Digital, DG, Integrated, etc.). Ask them to invite you to meetings and listen intently to identify areas where they need help, and volunteer to help with with those areas - e.g. market tren......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
It's hard to pick one skill... product marketers have to master a variety of skills to be effective in their roles - influencing people, messaging, content creation, sales enablement, opportunity assessments, competitive analysis, etc. But if I had to pick one, I would advise product marketers to......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 15
You should seek out product marketing specialist roles. In such a role you'll get to help product marketing managers conduct market, customer and competitive research, analyze data on product adoption and new customer acquisition, and develop marketing content and sales collateral. You'll have op......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
The decisions you make are a combination of your circumstances and the options available to you. I think luck and timing is always an overlooked factor. I recently read Einstein's biography, and it struck me how fortutious it was that he failed to get a job as an academic after graduating from co......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
If you have it, display it. It never hurts to try to differentiate yourself from the competition in a highly competitive field, especially if you don't have relevant bachelor's degree in business/marketing or an MBA. Some employers and hiring managers will care, others won't. But nobody will see ......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
In my experience, hiring managers don't know for sure how many years of experience is actually required for a role... it's not an exact science. What's more important is to demonstrate that you can do the work, that you can fulfill the requirements of the job. Find out what's relevant from your p......Read More
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Manav Tandon
Cisco Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS • February 16
A couple of other areas beyond customer that PMMs and PMs can find common interests in are market trends and competitive landscape dynamics. PMMs can provide conduct their own research and provide insights around the directions the current market is heading towards, or even suggest adjacent marke......Read More
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Credentials & Highlights
Head of Product Marketing, Collaboration SaaS at Cisco
Formerly Adobe, Samsung, Verifone
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Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Lives In Dublin, CA
Knows About Product Marketing Career Path, Product Marketing Soft and Hard Skills, Product Market......more