Understand the job

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.

Level All Breaking into GTM Doing the work Leading a GTM team How the best do it
Market All India Global
Who's asking Everyone Founder doing GTM Founding AE SDR or BDR Growth and demand gen Product marketer RevOps Sales leader Agency or consultant

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I want to start a GTM career in India but I have zero sales experience. What is the realistic first job? An SDR or BDR seat at a B2B software company is the standard front door, and it is genuinely open to people with no sales background because compan... Breaking into GTM 4 resources → I am the first GTM hire at a startup. What is my job really, and how do I not get fired in 12 months? Your job is not to relieve the founder of selling, it is to prove the founder's selling can be done by someone else. So spend the first month ridin... Doing the work 4 resources → I am an engineer, a consultant, or fresh out of an MBA. How do I actually switch into GTM? Your background is not a handicap, it is your entry ticket, but only if you aim at the door it opens. Engineers should look at sales engineering, s... Breaking into GTM 5 resources → Big company or startup for my first GTM job? The trade is training versus autonomy, and for a first job training usually wins. A larger company gives you a real onboarding programme, managers ... Breaking into GTM 4 resources → How do I judge a startup's GTM before I join it, so I am not walking into an unhittable number? Interview them harder than they interview you, and ask for numbers rather than stories. The four that matter most: what percentage of the team hit ... Doing the work 3 resources → 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... Leading a GTM team 4 resources → 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, ... How the best do it 5 resources → 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 ... How the best do it 3 resources →
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