#235: Strategy |In this episode, Matt sits down with Aditya Vempaty, VP of Marketing at MoEngage, to talk about a topic every marketing leader has wrestled with: reporting on the right metrics. Aditya has led marketing at companies like Nutanix, Amplitude, and Synthego - and he’s learned how to build dashboards and reporting frameworks that actually communicate marketing’s impact across leadership, sales, and finance.
Matt and Aditya cover:
- Why marketing metrics should translate performance into a common language the business understands
- The four buckets of metrics every B2B team should track
- How often you should be reporting on metrics
- The exact 7 metrics Aditya uses to report up, down, and across the org
Timestamps
- (00:00) - – Intro to Aditya
- (03:21) - – Why communicating marketing’s impact is a challenge for many teams
- (05:57) - – The importance of using a common language when reporting to leadership
- (08:35) - – Breaking marketing metrics into four key buckets
- (11:50) - – How pipeline coverage connects marketing to revenue
- (14:19) - – Reporting on efficiency: CAC, cost per opportunity, and more
- (17:34) - – The role of awareness metrics and how to contextualize them
- (22:12) - – How marketing and sales alignment can be measured effectively
- (24:41) - – The 7 core marketing metrics Aditya reports on regularly
- (28:24) - – How often should marketing be reporting metrics?
- (31:08) - – Dashboards, recurring meetings, and what execs actually care about
- (34:00) - – Advice for first-time marketing leaders on building reporting habits
- (36:14) - – Why clarity beats complexity when it comes to data
- (38:56) - – Final thoughts
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