57 episodes

We explore the world of Product Marketing through the lens of the women who run it at some of the fastest growing technology companies in the world. Each week we sit down with Product Marketing leaders to hear their journey, lessons learned, trade secrets, and more. Hosted by Mary Sheehan, a Product Marketing leader at Adobe. Mary is passionate about instilling confidence in women who are either thinking about pursuing a career in Product Marketing or are simply looking for tangible frameworks and takeaways in their current role. Mary knows first hand and acknowledges that as a woman in leadership, it can get lonely at the top. This show will help you navigate your career and unlock your full potential in a male dominated space. Women in Product Marketing is proudly brought to you by Sharebird, the site where leading product marketing execs answer questions and share best practices.

Women in Product Marketing Mary Sheehan, Sharebird

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    • 5.0 • 33 Ratings

We explore the world of Product Marketing through the lens of the women who run it at some of the fastest growing technology companies in the world. Each week we sit down with Product Marketing leaders to hear their journey, lessons learned, trade secrets, and more. Hosted by Mary Sheehan, a Product Marketing leader at Adobe. Mary is passionate about instilling confidence in women who are either thinking about pursuing a career in Product Marketing or are simply looking for tangible frameworks and takeaways in their current role. Mary knows first hand and acknowledges that as a woman in leadership, it can get lonely at the top. This show will help you navigate your career and unlock your full potential in a male dominated space. Women in Product Marketing is proudly brought to you by Sharebird, the site where leading product marketing execs answer questions and share best practices.

    Atlassian Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Portfolio, Ashley Faus on Product Launches

    Atlassian Head of Lifecycle Marketing, Portfolio, Ashley Faus on Product Launches

    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?

    Want more insights from Ashley? Check out her Sharebird Profile.
    Looking to connect? You can find Ashley here on LinkedIn.

    • 46 min
    Senior Director of Product Marketing, Alexandra Gutow on Messaging

    Senior Director of Product Marketing, Alexandra Gutow on Messaging

    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?


    Want more insights from Alexandra? Check out her Sharebird Profile.
    Looking to connect? You can find Alexandra here on LinkedIn.

    • 30 min
    Author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch, April Dunford on Product Positioning

    Author of Obviously Awesome and Sales Pitch, April Dunford on Product Positioning

    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?

    Looking to connect? You can find April here on LinkedIn.

    • 42 min
    Nextdoor Head of SMB Marketing, Brianne Shally on Influencing the Product Roadmap and Consumer Product Marketing

    Nextdoor Head of SMB Marketing, Brianne Shally on Influencing the Product Roadmap and Consumer Product Marketing

    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

    Want more insights from Brianne? Check out her Sharebird Profile.
    Looking to connect? You can find Brianne here on LinkedIn.

    • 36 min
    New Relic Vice President of Product Marketing, Pallavi Vanacharla on Building High Performing Teams

    New Relic Vice President of Product Marketing, Pallavi Vanacharla on Building High Performing Teams

    Questions covered in this episode:
     
    2:01  Opening Question (Can you share a time when you failed at something and learned?)
    5:58 What is your role like as a VP of Product Marketing at New Relic?
    7:44 Can you tell us a little bit about what's core to differentiated positioning for you and what your process is like?
    12:18 Can you share a little bit more about how you build high performing teams?
    16:46: How do you hire great PMM talent?
    20:51: What tools should product marketing use to relay customer feedback to product?
    24:53  Rapid Fire

    Want more insights from Pallavi? Check out her Sharebird Profile.
    Looking to connect? You can find Pallavi here on LinkedIn.

    • 28 min
    Wiz Senior Director of Product Marketing, Jiong Liu on Messaging

    Wiz Senior Director of Product Marketing, Jiong Liu on Messaging

    Questions covered in this episode:1:52  Opening Question (Can you share a time when you failed at something and learned?)
    6:02 What is your role like as a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Wiz?
    13:05 Can you share your experience as a online poker player?
    16:43 Do you have anything to share about what you've learned about your first year as a working mom?
    21:07: Do you have a messaging template that you like to use?
    24:03 How do you, and at what stages do you test your messaging?
    26:50 How do you showcase or describe interviewers your work in messaging?
    28:16  Rapid Fire

    Want more insights from Jiong? Check out her Sharebird Profile.
    Looking to connect? You can find Jiong here on LinkedIn.

    • 34 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
33 Ratings

33 Ratings

upupandway25 ,

A must listen podcast for product marketers

This podcast introduces you to sharp thinkers, movers and thought leaders in the product marketing space. Whether you are an early careerist or an advanced practitioner, you will discover valuable insights. Each time I listen to the podcast I come away with a framework or nugget I can apply to elevate my product marketing practice.

Mary herself is a strong product marketing leader and makes a great host. We get the benefit of having someone asking the right questions and direct the conversation so that it’s valuable to us listeners.

Thanks Mary for for putting together such a great podcast!

Pianose ,

Very much needed

I love the focus on how women in the PMM field think about their careers and the unique challenges that comes with our gender. It’s such an inspiration to see so many strong women advance and make it work for them!

Y_T2020 ,

An incredible resource for all product marketers

This show is an incredible resource for anyone interested in learning more about product marketing through the lens of women who are Product Marketing leaders in different industries. I’ve really enjoyed the topics and appreciated Mary’s thoughtful style of interviewing. I will continue to share the show with anyone interested in learning more about the craft of product marketing.

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