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Natala Menezes

Natala Menezes

Vice President Product Marketing, Dialpad

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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
When I started at Grammarly, I did an audit of how PMM mapped to the product organization, our consumer acquisition and growth teams, and our B2B sales teams. The audit r...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Outside of the wonderful PMM work we do at Grammarly (we’re hiring btw), I think Salesforce and Google do an exceptional job with product marketing. Salesforce focuses on...
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Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Not having clear entry/exit criteria to hit milestones ahead of launch → typically results in a launch delay. Collaborating as a cross-functional team → Team has tension...
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Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Pricing is both a science and art -- which means in many cases, it is hard to predict if you have hit the right price (high enough to capture maximum value but low enough...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
I have always loved this quote by Robert Johnson (notably a musician, not a product marketer!): “Leadership is the ability to influence people and motivate them to do wh...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Start with talking to customers to understand how they buy and their decision-making process. If we are working on a quick-turn launch, qualitative research via focus gro...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
People with a background in writing tend to excel at PMM. The key additional quality is to be a puzzle solver. Are they also technically curious (they like to know how th...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Create a Leadership Team: - Typically composed of the PMM who will lead the launch, define messaging and positioning and rally the org plus the product manager who owns...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Start by defining what you mean by impact: new user acquisition? Product adoption? Market awareness (pr coverage?). With a clear target and success metric, tailor activit...
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Natala Menezes
Dialpad Vice President Product Marketing | Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups4y
Yes -- primarily because enablement needs to be cognizant of local conditions and selling paths. For example, in a large enterprise company, you might have a dedicated sp...
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President Product Marketing at Dialpad
Formerly at: GOOG, MSFT, AMZN, SFDC Grammarly + startups
Top Product Marketing Mentor List
Lives In San Francisco, California
Knows About Product Launches, Pricing and Packaging, Stakeholder Management, Go-To-Market Strateg...more