Sunny Manivannan
Vice President & GM, Global SMB, Braze
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Sunny Manivannan
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
Managing Tense Stakeholder Relationships with Sunny Manivannan, VP Product Marketing at Braze
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Questions we cover in this episode:
1. Tell me about your career path to becoming a product marketer.
2. Can you tell me about some of you...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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
PMM + PM - roadmap planning, product launches, or pricing & packaging
PMM + Sales - sales enablement, competitive positioning...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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 revenue-generating product(s). It covers (within the quarter):
(i) the number of net-new wins for that product, the overall...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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 could use the metric of "how much of Product X did we sell in the
first six months after launch?", but that can be influenced b...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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 lecture. And when your team is global, the odds are that this one
hour comes at an inconvenient (EMEA) or impossible (APAC) time f...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
Taking the question at face value, there are only two things you can really do:
(1) Make the case to your CEO that all of these different functions picking off
pieces and working in silos is not the best answer to the company, and present
your plan for what it would look like if Product Market...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
Startups are unique because (virtually) every employee is also a shareholder.
Which means that every internal meeting is also a shareholders' meeting.
Now, unlike companies where you are a passive shareholder (Grandma bought you 10
shares of McDonald's, for example) but have no way to influence ...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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 forever?
The first is about how PMM can help Sales increase win rate and help Marketing
increase pipeline (pipeline x win ra...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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 topic (e.g. pricing and packaging, which I believe is the least
understood topic in all of enterprise software). In these cases, l...more
Vice President & GM, Global SMB
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 company before they close their first New
Business deal?'
2. Quarterly rep participation rate - defined as 'what % of my r...more
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Vice President & GM, Global SMB at Braze
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