Hiring Product Marketers Course
Hire product marketers who drive growth and business impact
1h 06min | 4 lessons
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Identify the key skills and traits of high-performing product marketers.
- Structure the hiring process to attract and assess the best candidates.
- Write job descriptions that clearly define expectations and value.
- Conduct interviews that uncover strategic thinking and execution ability.
- Align your product marketing team with business and revenue goals.
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Master hiring product marketers to build a talented team that drives successful results
Course Length:
1h 06min. 4 lessons.
Great product marketers don’t just explain features, they create demand, position products strategically, and drive measurable growth. The strongest companies know how to hire product marketers who move the business forward. This course gives you a step-by-step system to find, evaluate, and onboard the right talent, so your product marketing function becomes a key driver of business success.
After completing this online course on hiring product marketers, you will be able to assist your team and company with:
- Define the role and responsibilities of a product marketer in your company.
- Build a hiring process that attracts top-tier talent.
- Assess candidates effectively and hire for both strategy and execution.
- Set clear expectations to ensure new hires succeed.
- Structure your product marketing team for maximum impact.
This course is for you if you are responsible for:
- Hiring managers responsible for product marketing roles.
- Marketing and growth leaders building a high-performing team.
- Founders and executives looking to scale product marketing.
- Recruiters specializing in marketing and product roles.
- Anyone involved in hiring, evaluating, or managing product marketers.
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Course Curriculum
Hiring product marketers
Considerations in building and hiring a team
Ways to align a team and roles to hire for
Hiring framework to evaluate candidates
Where to source candidates
Leo Castro has deep experience in building and leading product marketing teams, especially at high-growth SaaS companies. He has directly led product marketing teams, in Head/VP of product marketing roles, and as part of a bigger marketing team, in CMO roles.
He has successfully developed the careers of product marketers, many of whom now run their own product marketing organizations.
This online course
comes with a
Certificate
Completing this course earns you an official CXL Hiring Product Marketers Course Certificate to prove your achievement. CXL is recognized as an industry-leading qualification by employers worldwide, and it is an official qualification on LinkedIn that can be added to your profile.
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