Jesus Requena - VP of Growth Marketing at Figma - How Growth Marketing Can Support User Activation
Mar 2, 2022
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Jesus Requena, VP of Growth Marketing at Figma, discusses the role of growth marketing in user activation and the importance of data. Topics include product-led growth (PLG), running experiments, challenges in growth marketing, identifying the 'aha' moment, and the future of tracking and data.
Understanding and leveraging data is crucial for user activation in growth marketing, and focusing on the activation metric is valuable.
Product-Led Growth (PLG) emphasizes demonstrating product value through a seamless experience, with technology playing a vital role in enabling effective strategies.
Deep dives
Importance of Data in User Activation
In this episode, Hessels Räkerena, VP of growth marketing at Figma, emphasizes the significance of understanding and utilizing data for user activation. He provides concrete examples of how data can be used to activate users and highlights the value of focusing on the activation metric.
Product-Led Growth as a Strategy
Hessels dives into the concept of product-led growth (PLG) and explains why it has gained significant popularity in recent years. He discusses how PLG focuses on demonstrating the value of the product to the user through a seamless and frictionless experience. Hessels also highlights the role of technology in enabling effective product-led growth strategies.
Challenges and Opportunities in Growth Marketing
Hessels explores the challenges and opportunities in growth marketing. He emphasizes the importance of alignment between product and growth marketing teams and the need for a clear focus on specific metrics that drive growth. Additionally, he discusses the challenges of operationalizing data and the importance of persistency in running experiments and proving the value of growth marketing initiatives.
The Role of Data Engineers in Building a Data Empire
Hessels emphasizes the critical role of data engineers in building a data empire. He suggests building a close relationship with data engineers, presenting them with challenges, and proving the value of investment in data infrastructure. Hessels also discusses the importance of operationalizing data for marketing purposes and the role of AI and machine learning in automating marketing processes.
Disclaimer! If you’re used to listening to the show, you might be a little surprised to hear how it sounds! Reeta Westman — content marketer at Advance B2B — and Seija Lappalainen — Growth marketer at Advance B2B — are now hosting The Growth Hub Podcast!
Jesus Requena is VP of Growth Marketing at Figma. Formerly VP of Growth at Algolia and Growth Marketing Director at Unity, Jesus has been in the SaaS world for quite some time and he had many golden nuggets to share on user activation and the role of data in it.
In this episode, we caught up with Jesus to hear how he’s done it so far and covered great topics, including:
> How Jesus became such a PLG (Product-Led Growth) enthusiast
> What makes PLG so interesting for SaaS businesses
> The role of growth marketing in user activation
> How growth marketing can support PLG
> Why data plays a central part in PLG and how to leverage it
Happy listening!
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Book recommendation:
Product-Led SEO by Eli Schwartz >> https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57659600-product-led-seo
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