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GTM roles and career paths
SDR, AE, AM, growth, product marketing, RevOps, sales leadership: what each one really does and how people move between them.
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How do I decide which GTM roles to hire, and in what order?
Hire against the bottleneck you can prove, not the org chart you eventually want. If you have more conversations than you can run, hire a closer; i...
How do I set quota, comp and ramp for my first sales team in India without copying a US template that does not fit?
Anchor on your own deal data, not on a benchmark deck. A workable starting point is a quota of roughly four to five times on-target earnings, a bas...
What separates a great VP of Sales from a merely good one?
A great one recruits. If they have not personally hired and carried two or three quota-carrying reps before, they are a manager of a system somebod...
Should I bring in a fractional or contract GTM leader instead of a full time one?
Sometimes, but not for the reason most founders reach for it. A fractional leader is a good fit when you already have a working motion and need som...
Which GTM roles is AI actually eliminating, and which are becoming more valuable?
What is shrinking is volume work: high output cold outreach, list building, basic qualification, tier one support. Job posting data backs this up r...
What does a world class product marketing function look like, and when does a company need one?
Great product marketing owns one thing that nothing else in the company owns: why a specific buyer should choose you over their real alternatives, ...
What does a genuinely great growth team look like, and how is it different from marketing?
Marketing usually owns the top of the funnel and is measured on leads and signups. A real growth team owns the whole loop, signup to activation to ...
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