Cross-Functional Collaboration: Powering Marketing and Product Success

About the Episode

Cross-functional collaboration is the key to elevating product management and product marketing teams to reach unified revenue goals and business growth.

The idea is exciting, but the execution requires a boundaryless leader dedicated to cross-functional collaboration and teamwork.

B2B SaaS product executive Akanksha Talya joins the Real Talk, Real Results podcast to share her expert insights on effective product management. She gives us a detailed blueprint for successful cross-functional leadership that is as simple as setting up the right systems and shifting a few mindsets.

Watch the latest episode to learn:

  1. How and why you should create a unified vision across teams
  2. The importance of creating “revenue agents” on your teams
  3. The five Cs of successful product management
  4. Why language is so crucial for smooth collaboration
  5. How product launches are like rocket launches
  6. When to pivot and how to handle “messy” transformations

Akanksha adds tremendous value by sharing her successes and failures, but more importantly, how she turned them into learning opportunities.

Check out this episode if you want actionable tips on creating stronger cross-functional teams, focusing on adding value to the customer, and building alignment that drives measurable results, plus the strategy behind them.

Akanksha Talya

Akansha Talya is a commercially oriented B2B SaaS product executive. She has leadership experience ranging from early-stage startups to $1B ARR Fortune 50 companies.
Akanksha brings over 18 years of leadership experience in B2B SaaS as a product management executive. Akanksha is a commercially-centric product leader and has consistently transformed product functions towards commercial intensity through market-changing innovation and positioning. Having been a sales leader before at an AI start-up, she knows what sales/ CS teams need from product teams to accelerate profitable growth. Using that empathy, she uniquely leads the transformation of products increasing both new logo growth, net dollar retention, and profitability. Her career highlights include transformative roles at ServiceChannel (acquired by Fortive for $1.2bn), CloseFactor (a generative AI and LLM-based sales intelligence platform), and GE Digital where she played pivotal roles in driving significant innovation, revenue surges and guiding companies through key profitability milestones. She is also an advisor to many B2B SaaS start-ups and a Limited Partner and Investment Advisor at Neythri Futures Fund.

Rita Matuzic

Rita Matuzic is the host of the Real Talk Real Results podcast. She has over 12 years of experience in demand generation and digital marketing, designing and implementing global campaigns that improve brand awareness, drive revenue generation, and engage buyers throughout the customer lifecycle. Rita’s experience spans multiple focuses in the IT industry, including cybersecurity, fraud protection, DevOps, test data management, digital workspace, cloud security, and compliance.
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