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 and evangelizing their value to our target customers via thought leadership and advocacy. Media planning and elevating release GTM through thematic innovation announcements, AR PR IR strategy, videos and 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.

Ashima’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!

  • 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.

Enablement & Thought Leadership

Evangelist to sales, partners, customers and more

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

Competitive Positioning

BOFU comparison webpages (SEM/SEO optimized)

Differentiating our competitive value through highlighting product leadership and key reason for being. 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 and Positioning Sprints

Let’s offsite 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 favorite 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 our 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.

Monetization Strategy

Miro’s product monetization canvas

Helping product, pricing, competitive intelligence and marketing teams get a comprehensive view of the most important elements of their product-market, product-customer and product-value fit to inform pricing strategy. Asking hard questions like “what would your customers do if your product did not exist?”

 

Mapping Content to Buyer Journery

B2B SaaS buyer journey

How you communicate with your prospects will vary depending on which stage of the buyer’s journey they’re in. Offering potential buyers exactly what they’re looking for according to how far along they are in the buyer’s journey gives you the highest potential to convert them.

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 :)

Being a Culture Leader

Measuring success not only through revenue and product adoption, but also on how PMM adds value to adjacent teams. I believe PMM is the glue in B2B SaaS marketing.

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)