Questions covered in this episode:   00:34 Opening Question (What inspires you?) 1:20 What is your role like? 3:12 How did you become a PMM? 6:21 What are your thoughts on quiet quitting? 12:11 What is the hardest thing in moving from IC to manager?  16:44 When you were in IC, what did you learn that actually helped you become a manager? 19:46 What do you look for in recruiting? 24:55 Do you have anything tactical that you do to help you hire someone? 28:01 What about team development either as a whole or on an individual level? 33:18 Rapid Fire  
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Questions covered in this episode:   0:49 Opening Question: Can you take us back to a moment in your career or your life where you had to step outside of your comfort zone?  4:40 What is your role like as a VP of PMM at Verkada? 6:58 what is the profile of a really successful product marketer that you look for? 10:25 Can you talk about that a little bit more about the overlap between product marketing and product management at your company? 15:53 As you grow, how are you thinking about that team structure and sort of adding roles, you know, that might be complimentary to product marketing as the needs really arise? 18:48 What criteria do you use to prioritize releases? 21:15 How do you decide on the right amount of detail to share and go to market materials? 23:52 What about when you actually get to the tactics that you're going to use as part of a product launch? 25:39 How do you think PMM will change over the next 5 or 10 years?  26:52 How should AI play a role in product marketing?  28:20 How do you achieve work life balance? 31:08 What do you think has been the one thing that's been most important for growing your career?  33:22 What is your favorite thing about product marketing? 
 
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Verkada VP of Product Marketing, Priyanka Srinivasan on Go-To-Market Strategy

Questions covered in this episode:   0:50 Opening Question: Can you take us back to a moment in your career or your life where you had to step outside of your comfort zone?  3:47 What is your role like at Atlassian? 8:03 How do you actually adapt messages for the right audience using different assets and channels. What's your approach? 14:11 You have mentioned publicly that you focus more on this playground mindset versus the funnel mindset. What is this all about? 22:55 How should the approach differ for product launches targeted towards large enterprises versus one for smaller startups in terms of timelines, activities and metrics? 32:27 How do you think PMM will change over the next 5 or 10 years?  36:10 How should AI play a role in product marketing?  39:54 How do you achieve work life balance? 42:21 What do you think has been the one thing that's been most important for growing your career?  44:52 What is your favorite thing about product marketing? 
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Atlassian Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Portfolio, Ashley Faus on Product Launches

Questions covered in this episode:   1:023 Opening Question: Can you take us back to a moment in your career or your life where you had to step outside of your comfort zone?  4:45 What is your role like at Snowflake? 8:09 Could share some examples of messaging frameworks that you think are best in class, or how do you think about that? 12:37 When you are creating messaging, do you create persona based messaging or vertical based messaging or an all up? Or how are you kind of thinking about it?  15:09: How do you get your teams on board with messaging? 20:47: How do you incorporate that voice of the customer into messaging positioning? 24:33 How do you think PMM will change over the next 5 or 10 years?  25:10 How should AI play a role in product marketing?  26:10 What do you wish you knew now that you knew back back when you were starting off in product marketing? 27:09 What do you think has been the one thing that's been most important for growing your career?  28:53 What is your favorite thing about product marketing? 
 
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Senior Director of Product Marketing, Alexandra Gutow on Messaging

Questions covered in this episode:   0:42 Opening Question: Can you take us back to a moment in your career or your life where you had to step outside of your comfort zone?  6:42 How does it look like being the CEO and founder of a consulting business? 16:05 Can you please tell us more about your article ‘primer on positioning’ and your book ‘Obviously Awesome’? 25:44 Can you talk a little bit about how that influenced your second book on the sales pitch, which is more about, you know, bringing this to life in the sales pitch? 34:18: What role should AI play in product marketing? 38:05 what do you wish you knew maybe at the beginning of your career that you wish you knew now? 
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Author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch, April Dunford on Product Positioning

Questions covered in this episode:   1:26  Opening Question (Can you share a time when you failed at something and learned?) 5:16  What is your role like and what Nextdooris all about? 11:20 What is tactically that source of truth as you get data from various sources and how do you connect it all with the inputs that you're getting? 13:35 What is the way that you bring voice of customer to life at the organizations that you work for? 16:21: What kind of impact does having a strong woman leader as CEO have on the company as a whole, in your opinion? 20:51: What are good OKRs for product marketing? 24:50 How do you make the jump from a senior manager level to the director level? 29:40 What are some innovative launch activities you've done that were successful? 34:09 Rapid Fire 
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