by Erica Seidel | May 16, 2023
This episode of The Get podcast is a super one! Hear two SaaS marketing leaders from PE-backed companies discuss their hard-won learnings on working with Boards. You’ll learn about: The relative importance of the 3 C’s – Context, Content, and Confidence –...
by Erica Seidel | Apr 27, 2023
This season on The Get podcast, we’ve been exploring the CMO/Board relationship. Here is a particularly fun episode: you’ll hear a CMO and her Board member not just talking *about* each other, but rather talking *with* each other. I had the pleasure of...
by Erica Seidel | Apr 13, 2023
Chris Fountain, operating partner at Frontier Growth — and a pal of mine from several search collaborations — joins The Get podcast and shares great advice about: What it takes to be a successful operating partner for a PE shop (Spoiler alert: Be able to...
by Erica Seidel | Mar 30, 2023
🎤 It’s here! Excited to announce the first episode of The Get podcast this season. Kelly Ford Buckley of Edison Partners shared awesome advice about how SaaS CMOs can up their game with their Boards. You’ll hear about: How to remove the intimidation factor...
by Erica Seidel | Jan 11, 2023
Happy 2023! Here’s what I predict we’ll see this year in the market for CMOs in SaaS companies. 👀 CEO VIEWS ON THE CMO ROLE “To expand or compress/contract marketing, that is the question…” 1) Some companies are expanding marketing, with an eye...
by Erica Seidel | Nov 7, 2022
CMOs who can scale: something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately. The most common thing that CEOs and investors want in their CMO candidates is scale-up cred: “We’re looking to grow from 50MM to 100MM; bring us the person who has done that before...
by Erica Seidel | Sep 28, 2022
“We’re $30MM in revenue and we want to scale fast to $100MM. Can you find us a CMO who has done that exact scale-up before… and wants to do it again?” I hear this a LOT when I start a new CMO search. Sometimes the specific request is for scale-up...
by Erica Seidel | Jul 20, 2022
When I was looking for someone to marry, I wrote up a scorecard to vet potential partners. I called it my LIFE scorecard. I was looking for someone who was a good Listener, had some International experience or interest, was socially Flexible (able to interact with...
by Erica Seidel | Jun 2, 2022
Recently I got a super cool search assignment – to recruit the VP of Brand Experience for Quickbase. I see many signs pointing to a rise in roles like this, leading Brand Experience — especially in SaaS companies that are: Betting on product-led growth Realizing...
by Erica Seidel | May 12, 2022
Greetings from the front lines of executive search for CMOs and VPs of marketing! Dang, is this not the most unique hiring market we’ve seen in years? A lot of search processes are changing to land the best talent. But one thing that hasn’t changed is the...
by Erica Seidel | Mar 21, 2022
This episode of The Get podcast is one of my favorites. I interviewed CMO scale savant Sydney Sloan. Sydney discussed her time as CMO at Salesloft, where she contributed to a huge scale-up. Sydney had so much insight to share. It was hard to pick out just a few...
by Erica Seidel | Mar 13, 2022
This episode of The Get podcast really made me think. I interviewed Khalid El Khatib, who’s the Head of Marketing and Communications for Stack Overflow. Khalid discusses his career journey, and how he has structured his organization to serve not just Stack...
