How Did You Develop Into a Great Marketer at Mox?

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i spent five and a half years at segment, and it was wonderful. When i first arrived, i was the second marketer, and there was a marketer that was there named diana smith,. And she is completely fantastic. She has these two critical, absolutely critical components to a great marketer: they can communicate with everybody. They're going to have different complimentary skills depending on the permutation of folks on the rest team. You find that out when you start working together, what what are your complimentary skills that are assets to the company? And then everything grows around you.

Today’s episode is with Maya Spivak, the Head of Marketing at Mux, which is an API for developers to build video experiences. Maya recently joined Mux after five years at Segment, where she was the company’s second marketer and its Head of Global Brand Marketing and Communications, as well as a stint at Wealthfront as a marketing director.

In today’s conversation, she takes a magnifying glass to the core components of a startup’s marketing org. She starts by breaking down the three pillars of marketing roles — product, brand, and growth. She explains the leading indicators that your startup is ready to hire folks within each of these pillars — which starts with analyzing your sales motion and sizing up the founders’ strengths and weaknesses.

Next, Maya pulls back the curtain on how she architects interview loops for each of these different roles, and the unique capabilities that separate good candidates from great, must-hire folks. Finally, she reflects on her experience as one of the earliest marketing hires at Segment, and how she built the marketing org in the first couple of years to keep up with the shifting needs of the growing startup.

Today’s conversation is of course a must-listen for marketers, particularly marketing leaders and hiring managers that are trying to pluck out the best and the brightest to join their org. But there’s a ton for other folks to learn from this interview, which explains some of the nuances of startup marketing you may not fully appreciate.

You can follow Maya on Twitter at @papayamaya.

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