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How Product Marketing Is Evolving in 2025: Lessons on AI and Leadership with Jennifer Cannizzaro


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#267 Product Marketing | Matt is joined by Jennifer Cannizzaro, VP of Product Marketing at Responsive and former marketing leader at Whoop and DocuSign. Jennifer brings deep experience in building strategic, insight-driven marketing teams at high-growth B2B companies and she’s at the forefront of using AI to scale smarter, not just faster.

Matt and Jennifer cover:

  • How product marketing can become a company-wide growth lever through tighter GTM alignment, strategic planning, and better customer intel
  • Practical ways her team is using AI to reduce content workload, cut freelancer spend, and increase speed-to-market
  • How to coach marketers to use AI responsibly, and why curiosity and judgment matter more than ever


It’s a tactical, behind-the-scenes look at what high-impact product marketing really looks like in 2025, including strategy, systems, and AI.

Timestamps

  • (00:00) - – Intro
  • (02:37) - – What product marketing owns today
  • (06:24) - – Launch and learn vs launch and leave
  • (07:34) - – How PMM drives company strategy
  • (10:59) - – Aligning teams around growth levers
  • (14:34) - – Gathering customer and market intel
  • (18:39) - – Quick, AI-powered research tactics
  • (20:19) - – Sharing insights across the org
  • (25:00) - – Real examples of AI in use
  • (28:20) - – Eliminating freelancer spend with AI
  • (30:00) - – What to feed AI to get results
  • (32:50) - – Coaching teams to use AI well
  • (36:20) - – Weekly AI spotlights and team habits
  • (38:35) - – Building a team-wide AI culture
  • (42:05) - – Setting realistic AI expectations
  • (45:50) - – Example prompts and experiments
  • (48:07) - – The role of community and mentorship
  • (54:20) - – Final thoughts and wrap-up

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