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Sunny Manivannan

Sunny Manivannan

Vice President & GM, Global SMB, Braze

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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
My top 3 metrics to measure sales enablement success are :1. Reduction in ramp time for new AEs coming into the company - defined as 'how many days does an AE spend at my...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
Personally, I consider these three questions every day:1. How can I help my company win more?2. How can I help my company win bigger?3. How can I help my company win fore...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
In full transparency, I have found it difficult to evaluate the success of a product launch in a metrics-driven way. There's too many variables at play. For example, one ...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
I'm in favor of what I call the 'State of the Union' report - and doing this every quarter. A 'State of the Union' report is created by a product marketer for their main ...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
As I wrote in another answer, the market will reward some kinds of tension, especially if there is substantive disagreement between leaders or functions on a critical top...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
Startups are unique because (virtually) every employee is also a shareholder. Which means that every internal meeting is also a shareholders' meeting. Now, unlike compani...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
The first time this happens at your company (assuming the MVP is already built), you have to let the product launch and (likely) fail in the market. There's likely too mu...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
Sales reps are busy. Sales managers are even busier. It's not easy to convince these busy folks to take an hour out of their day to sit in a classroom and listen to a lec...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
1. Google Sheets2. Slack and Email My personal perspective (and I know this is not a popular opinion) - keep project management tools as far away as possible from your p...
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Sunny Manivannan
Braze Vice President & GM, Global SMB5y
I think it's crucial to work closely with other teams at the company on projects that really matter to their success. For example: PMM + Demand Gen - website redesign PM...
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Credentials & Highlights
Vice President & GM, Global SMB at Braze
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Product Marketing AMA Contributor
Lives In New York, NY
Knows About Stakeholder Management, Establishing Product Marketing, Sales Enablement, Building a ...more