product marketing
8 statements across 7 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2023 by Anique Drumright · across every show →
Everything said about product marketing, oldest first
Aug 3, 2023 positive
Drumright: Product marketing earlier in development drives faster cross-functional alignment
“This is what we think the value of the business would be and spending a lot more time on that almost product marketing moment earlier on. I think brings your cross-functional team with you much faster rather than making it a by the way and spending a vast majo…”
Aug 31, 2023 positive
Mehta: Product marketing serves as connective tissue across GM silos
“Then you have the product marketing teams that frequently also serve as the glue because product marketing teams sit in between GTM teams and the product development teams. And so they serve as a bridge between the GM and the GTM functions, but also between ea…”
Oct 26, 2023
GitLab pairs product marketers directly with product managers to prioritize features
“So we've built a product marketing team that is Getting deeper and deeper. They're matched with product managers, and they're getting deeper and deeper into how our product works and understanding the value of it to really want the product managers to come tog…”
Apr 25, 2024 neutral
MacInnis: Rippling avoided hiring traditional product marketers for GTM
“And so in our case, in building out what we call a go to market management team, because we didn't even want to use the term product marketing. We didn't want to go shopping in that pool for talent. We were able to be focused on hiring people who were demonstr…”
May 16, 2024 positive
Desai: Product marketing initially owned pricing and packaging at VMware
“Pricing and packaging was done by product marketing at VMware initially. Everyone was technical. They understood the product. They could actually You know, demo and sell the product, which helps. Some of the same principles we're using now at Sentry which is y…”
Aug 1, 2024
Muthukumar: Pitch conversion rate dictates whether to hire demand gen or PMM
“If you can get people into a room and close them well, what you need is more fire at the top of the funnel. Like you need a demand generation person who can bring in more awareness, more leads. More conversations into the funnel. If they're saying like, yeah, …”
Aug 1, 2024
Muthukumar: Product marketing cannot be horizontalized across products
“I think the one that you can't kind of overly horizontalize is product marketing. They have to be very close to the products that they are working on, the feature sets that they support. But the rest of the teams can be fairly horizontal.”