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2022 Salary Insights: Senior Product Marketing Manager
ByMBA Editorial July 6, 2022March 6, 2024

We were recently engaged by a client to conduct a search for a Senior Product Marketing Manager. Our client is a global B2B SaaS startup whose Customer Experience platform provides organizations with the ability to engage, communicate and sell to their target customers, in real time. Our client was interested in a Senior Product Marketer…

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Boston | Leadership Insights | Marketing | Montreal | Series A | Talent Acquisition

The Top Reasons a VP Demand Generation will Accept Your Job Offer
ByMBA Editorial June 15, 2022March 6, 2024

Money, money, money – in this great resignation, everyone seems to simply focus on the money. While we know compensation is a massive piece of the hiring puzzle, it’s not everything. It takes more than a high base salary and generous performance bonus to attract top marketing talent. Continuing in our hiring series, we are diving…

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Kitchener | Leadership Insights | Montreal | Product Management | Series A | Talent Acquisition | Vancouver

Hiring Challenges Series A Startups Face and How to Overcome Them
ByMBA Editorial May 24, 2022March 6, 2024

We recently wrote an article highlighting all the reasons we love recruiting for Series A funded tech startups. We did, however, leave out all the reasons these companies and their Founders are not insulated from current market challenges affecting all startups trying to attract talent. This article will focus on the three most significant challenges facing…

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Boston | Career Advice | Design | Leadership Insights | Marketing | Montreal | Product Management | Sales | Series A | Vancouver

Why We Love Recruiting for Series A Funded Startups
ByMBA Editorial May 17, 2022March 6, 2024

In previous articles, we’ve shared all the reasons why we love recruiting in specific markets across North America like Boston, Kitchener, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Today we want to highlight the persona of tech companies we invest most of our time recruiting for: Series A funded startups! In fact, since the founding of our North American executive recruitment firm 20 years…

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Career Advice | Leadership Insights | Marketing | Salary Insights | Talent Acquisition | Vancouver

Salary Insights – VP Growth Marketing
ByMBA Editorial May 4, 2022March 6, 2024

A client recently engaged us to conduct a search for a VP Growth Marketing. Our client is a Vancouver-based D2C eCommerce company with a robust digital presence. Due to solid growth in sales and an increased spend on paid social, our client was looking for their first-ever VP Growth Marketing. Their mandate was to enable…

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Boston | Healthcare | Kitchener | Leadership Insights | Montreal | Product Management | Product Marketing | Talent Acquisition | Vancouver

Why is it so Hard to Hire a Product Marketing Manager?
ByMBA Editorial April 13, 2022March 6, 2024

Almost every tech company has finally realized that unless there is an equally effective go-to-market strategy and product release the Product Management function is not functioning at its full potential. In order to achieve this, a Product Marketing Manager needs to join the team. Over the last 14 months, there has been a skyrocketing demand…

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Healthcare | Leadership Insights | Product Management | Talent Acquisition

How I Recruit Healthcare Product Managers
ByMBA Editorial April 12, 2022March 6, 2024

I completed my first search for a Product Manager in 2006. Since then, product has become a much bigger deal, overtaking sales as the primary reason why a company succeeds or fails. It’s been a fascinating transition, not only to watch but to be a part of, as we’ve ramped up our product management recruiting practice to…

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Inside Look: Head of Product Salary Insights
ByMBA Editorial April 6, 2022March 6, 2024

We were recently engaged by a client to conduct a search for the company’s first Head of Product. Our client is an international B2B software and services company whose enterprise grade solutions are used by some of the world’s largest companies. The mission for this hire was to launch the business into a new solution…

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Boston | Kitchener | Leadership Insights | Product Management

Practical Advice When Your Product Manager Wants a Promotion
ByMBA Editorial March 29, 2022March 6, 2024

As the workforce landscape continues to evolve, it’s natural for everyone’s minds to be thinking about the future, the growth of your organization, or in your employees’ case their careers. Another interesting note for leaders, is the increase in candidates (from smaller markets like Kitchener) who are reaching out asking to be considered for Product Leadership…

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Boston | Career Advice | Healthcare | Kitchener | Leadership Insights | Montreal | Product Management | Vancouver

What Type of Product Manager Do You Need to Hire?
ByMBA Editorial March 23, 2022March 6, 2024

The 6 Product Leader Archetypes Since starting our product management-focused practice in 2016, we have interviewed thousands of candidates and placed over 300 product management professionals (from individual contributors through to CPOs), so it’s safe to say we’ve learned a lot. One of the most important lessons we have learned is that many searches are similar, but rarely are…

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Boston | Career Advice | Design | Leadership Insights | Product Management | Salary Insights | Talent Acquisition

Global Design Director – Salary Insights
ByMBA Editorial March 2, 2022March 6, 2024

We were recently engaged by a client to conduct a search for a Global Design Director. Our client is a publicly traded, global, B2B software company whose solutions are used by some of the world’s largest companies. We conducted a targeted search across North America and Western Europe, focusing on senior software design leaders who…

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Kitchener | Leadership Insights | Product Management

Does Anyone Out There Understand Product Recruiting?
ByMBA Editorial February 9, 2022March 6, 2024

We are always amazed when we meet business leaders who express surprise at the fact that we specialize in Product Management recruiting. While on one hand, it’s cool to be a disruptor, it’s also opened our eyes to the biggest reasons why we see so many tech companies struggle to hire product talent. While there are…

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Career Advice | Leadership Insights | Salary Insights | Sales

Salary Insights – Enterprise Account Executive
ByMBA Editorial January 5, 2022September 9, 2024

We were recently engaged by a client to conduct a search for an Enterprise Account Executive. Our client is an award-winning B2B SaaS company that utilizes AI and analytics to enhance all aspects of the business experience. We conducted a targeted search on their behalf, seeking Enterprise Account Executives with proven software or technology sales…

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Career Advice | Marketing | Montreal | Product Management | Product Marketing | Salary Insights | Vancouver

Salary Insights – Senior Product Marketing Manager
ByMBA Editorial November 30, 2021September 9, 2024

We were recently engaged to conduct a search for a Senior Product Marketing Manager. Our client is a Series-A funded, Canadian B2B SaaS vendor whose solutions are sold to large enterprises across all industries. This search was to find their first Product Marketing hire. The role would report to the VP of Marketing and was seen as…

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Customer Success | Design | Engineering | Leadership Insights | Marketing | Montreal | Product Management | Sales | Vancouver

Top 5 Myths that Hinder the Hiring Process
ByMBA Editorial November 17, 2021April 17, 2024

The ideal hiring scenario sounds something like this… you put up a job posting, qualified candidates apply, you interview and have an ah-ha moment with one candidate who happily accepts the job. That’s a nice fantasy, isn’t it? While most hiring leaders know this hiring scenario isn’t very common, they are still tied to other less-obvious hiring…

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