My Work

Living and Breathing my Products

My product marketing philosophy begins with listening to customers, understanding their pain points, solving for their problems and building for their future.

Being an expert on my products & evangelizing their value to our target customers via thought leadership and advocacy. Media planning & elevating release GTM through thematic innovation announcements, AR PR IR strategy, videos & demos, event mic-drop moments, and segment-centric messaging and positioning. Author narrative design frameworks, press releases, blogs, eBooks, keynotes, analyst content and deliver impactful presentations that highlight how X product solves for Y.

Ash’s guide to release GTM

I view PM as owning internal product development and advising how that’s externalized. PMM is the inverse. We’re the experts on the product’s external presence, messaging and positioning, and should advise on internal product development strategy. For releases, I identify the core value proposition and how best to communicate it. I do this by focusing my efforts on elevating release GTM through: thematic announcements, video demos, segment-centric messaging.

  • Release teaser videos

    If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth 1 million. See our quarterly top highlights example. We break these into shorter social snippets to stretch content lifespan.

  • Show, don’t tell messaging

    Homemade demos for when budgets are tight but you are still releasing amazing innovations! Or if you have a little budget, a demo video can go a long way.

  • Innovation storytelling

    Always on innovation messaging (including visuals) mindset. Launched whats new @RingCentral as a hub to learn about releases.

  • Quarterly Release Comms

    Webinars, Blogs, Enablement and more - regular speaker and author, driving adoption of our latest innovations & enhancements and engagement with our MAU.

Sales Enablement & Thought Leadership

Evangelist to sales, partners, customers and more

Be an expert on the product and talk about it with confidence. Author & deliver impactful presentations for in-person and online events that highlight how we solve our customers' problems. Equip the sales & channel partner teams with the content & data needed to sell confidently.

Example: 8 mins enablement pe-Gartner event.

Example 2: Channel partner enablement on newly launched thought leadership

Competitive Positioning

Differentiating our competitive value through highlighting product leadership and why we win. What is the unique value that our products offer to users, that no one else can compete with? How do you break through the noise in a commoditized market? Create & maintain all key competitive positioning against Zoom, Cisco, 8x8, Dialpad, Openphone, Nextiva etc. See a guide I follow to how to create a compelling competitive webpage.

 

Re-imagined Products

Driving the team into multi-product land and launching complex, AI native products like RingSense

Launched our first AI-powered conversation intelligence app RingSense, unlocking new markets and categories for RingCentral. Led cross-functional teams in end-to-end GTM and launch readiness. Conducted market and new buyer persona research, continuously refined messaging and positioning, competitive research and positioning, key contributor to designing our halo AI narrative, developed integrated marketing motions, PR AR IR motions and so on.

Messaging & Positioning

Let’s sprint together!

Crafting research-based AB tested product messaging & positioning that is the basis for sales assets, campaigns, web copy, solution briefs, presentations, and PR. Ensure product narratives resonate with our customers and speak to their pain points. Relaunching critical adjacent products that drive value to customers and rallying internal teams as a skilled conductor. Check out one of my messaging projects - creating an innovation webpage from scratch encapsulating “What’s New @ RingCentral” every month.

 

Product Strategy Influencer

PMMs help drive clarity above all else. By being an expert on market and customer insights, I play a crucial role in shaping product strategies through priming discussions on who really is our ideal customer, what is our unique and undisputed value we bring to them, what are the key features they say they love (not what we say), what does the market price this value at, what’s our distribution strategy, and competitive positioning.

Analyst Relations Lead

Educating on Gartner MQ process and ideating on strategies to win.

Helping product, comms and PMM deliver on our Analyst Relations goals. Prepare for all inquiries by building world-class decks for our executives and talking points. Regularly share out insights and findings, owning and delivering our submissions for MQ, Wave, IDC and other report submissions. Know all aspects of the product deep enough to be able to lead calls myself. Prepare sales materials and company read-outs on our AR performance.

 

PMM Leadership

Every squad needs a quaterback. That’s me.

Led strategic planning & execution, conducted gap analysis on assets, messaging & PMM deliverables to enhance playbooks & competitive intelligence. Led cross-functional GTM, developed comprehensive enablement curriculum & built a single source of truth for GTM intelligence, resulting in improved market positioning, sales effectiveness, & engagement metrics.

Digital Storytelling & Optimization

Creating product description pages that convert

I found this Zapier guide to creating converting webpages a good summary of my general approach to creating product, feature and storytelling pages nicely. Happy to share it as a reference.

A product page structure example

 

Copywriting

Regular writer on the RingCentral global blog site and the RingCentral EMEA blog site. Also see my personal blogs for unfiltered writing :)

A Specific Kind of Culture Leader

I have incredibly high standards. If you are going to do anything, why half ass it? Life is too short. I am incredibly demanding on myself, always aiming for world class. I seek a team that also values excellence.

Leadership & Coaching

Personal branding workshop - Helping my peers find their brand and gain confidence to spead their ideas. Most attended optional workshop in company history (250+ live attendees)