How to Lead a Marketing Team That Drives Impact

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I like to spend a lot of time thinking about if what we're doing makes sense for the context of our business. We had an opportunity to redeploy people and move them into different areas that were really under resourced. A pretty lean company like Notion, it's really important to do that because you never have enough people or time to get everything done. You have to make sure that all of your work is really on the highest leverage things.

Our guest today is Rachel Hepworth, Head of Marketing at Notion.

Rachel currently runs growth marketing at Notion, and sees her job as bringing process and control to all of Notion’s different marketing channels. Before joining Notion, Rachel launched the first growth marketing team at Slack, laying down the tracks for a well-oiled go-to-market strategy that could be measured easily.

Much like Slack, Notion has made a name for itself largely through customer love and a powerful word-of-mouth recommendation engine. As a metrics-focused marketer, Rachel opens up her playbook on how she lassos that kind of word-of-mouth growth and the analytical approach she has toward acquiring and retaining customers.

In our conversation today, we focus on the nuts and bolts of what growth marketing looks like inside an organization that’s driven by product-led growth. Rachel shares tactical advice on:

Why high-speed feedback cycles are so important
Early indicators of which sign-ups are most likely to convert to paid customers
Her process for adjusting which top-of-funnel metrics to track over time
How marketing, product and sales all work together at Notion to own a different part of the customer funnel

You can follow Rachel on Twitter at @rachelhepworth. You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson.