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Hiring your first product marketer

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The first product marketer is not a launch coordinator, a content writer, or a sales deck factory. Hire for the constraint you actually have.

Scope the role around one outcome

Pick the single outcome — win rate, activation, expansion — that this person owns for their first two quarters. Everything else is support work they can negotiate.

A first PMM with three priorities has none.

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