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Sahil Sethi

Sahil Sethi

Vice President - Global Product Marketing, Freshworks

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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey11mo
Engagement model and teamsBring Sales/CS (end user of plays), Enablement (Orchestrator), Marketing (who provide air cover) and Product (who build the product) in the same...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
Not being able to strongly respond to the question “Can you pitch your product to me ?” Not being ready with good writing samples Not coming with strong examples of your...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
For tenured PMM roles (e.g. team leads/directors or senior/principal PMMs who may not be team leads), I do ask for an assignment We usually give an open question that mi...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
My favorite question is very simple I ask them “Can you pitch me your product?” (if they come from any marketing role) It allows me to understand their storytelling ski...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
This is such a good question There are many ways to demonstrate success of messaging/positioning work Talk through the process - Explain your approach to developing mess...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey11mo
Four career pathsGrow as a PMM. From Individual contributor to manager to director to VP, here you keep growing as you keep honing your PMM craft but eventually graduate ...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
Good question. As PMMs, our roles touch so many aspects of the company that ROI could be hard to define. My advice to every PMM is to think through the impact of their wo...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey2y
The best sales relationships come from the top. Where the PMM leadership, or marketing/product leadership is aligned with sales leadership on key OKRs and where and how p...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
As long as you have generally worked in functions in or adjacent to product marketing (e..g content, campaigns, market research etc.), my guidance is to always use one re...
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Sahil Sethi
Freshworks Vice President - Global Product Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey3y
TLDR In the large majority of B2B SaaS companies, PMM owns messaging/positioning for products/solutions and demand-gen/performance marketing owns the deployment of that ...
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President - Global Product Marketing at Freshworks
Formerly Klaviyo, Qualtrics, Microsoft, MckInsey
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Studied at MBA from Chicago Booth
Lives In Seattle
Knows About B2B Product Marketing KPI's, Building a Product Marketing Team, Category Creation, Co...more
Speaks English, French, Hindi