Product Marketing Manager
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- What's it like to be a Product Marketing Manager?
- How to become a Product Marketing Manager
- Latest Product Marketing Manager jobs
- Top skills and experience for Product Marketing Managers
What's it like to be a Product Marketing Manager?
Product Marketing Managers develop a product’s overall branding, positioning, and messaging. Their day typically involves meetings with different teams involved in a marketing campaign. A Product Marketing Manager works in a fast-paced environment, typically in an agency or as part of a company’s in-house marketing department.
Tasks and duties
- Developing marketing strategies.
- Analysing consumer insights and other data from market research.
- Coordinating with marketing teams, clients, and internal stakeholders.
- Planning and leading the execution of marketing campaigns.
- Monitoring campaign results.
- Reporting on marketing campaign outcomes.
How to become a Product Marketing Manager
To become a Product Marketing Manager you usually need a bachelor degree in marketing, mass communications, business management or a related field.
Graduate with a bachelor degree in marketing, mass communications, business management or a related course. Having an MBA or a master’s degree in marketing may be an advantage.
Gain at least five to eight years’ worth of relevant experience in a leadership role.
Seek expertise in B2B (business-to-business) or B2C (business-to-consumer) marketing.
After gaining experience as a Product Marketing Manager, consider progressing to a role such as Senior Product Marketing Manager, Director of Product Marketing, or Vice-President of Product Marketing.
