Skip to content
Germán Zurro

Permanent leadership

Sustained Ownership of Marketing, or of Strategic Product Marketing.

Two distinct executive remits. Full Marketing ownership covers the whole function; a VP Product Marketing mandate leads PMM with influence across Product, Marketing, and Sales.

Mandate 01

CMO / VP Marketing

For companies that need one person to own the Marketing function and be accountable for what it achieves.

  • Building a first senior Marketing function — typically in a technical, founder-led company at Seed or around Series A, where the product exists but Marketing does not yet.
  • Leading and adapting an existing function — at Series A/B, or after a change of ownership, a spin-off, or an integration.
  • Setting priorities across positioning, content and search, digital and field growth, demand foundations, analyst relations, and operations — and deciding which specialists or team members to add, and when.

Evidence: full Marketing ownership at XYB as first Marketing hire, and full Marketing and Product ownership at TransUnion in Spain, leading a six-person cross-functional team.

Mandate 02

VP Product Marketing

For companies that need a Product Marketing leader with strategic influence, rather than a whole-Marketing owner.

  • Customer and market research, segmentation and buyer personas, and competitive intelligence.
  • Positioning, category narrative, and analyst relations.
  • Coordinated launches and the adoption programs that follow them.
  • Sales and partner enablement that sellers actually use.

Evidence: founding PMM ownership at Onum; enterprise and trust-domain PMM at Miro; early-category Sales enablement at Palo Alto Networks.

Describes strategic Product Marketing, security and privacy expertise, the trust he built with stakeholders, entrepreneurial execution, and reliability.

Marina AlgasingerWorked with Germán at MiroLinkedIn, January 2025

What you can assess

Scope, People, Priorities, and Commercial Understanding.

Scope owned
Whole-function Marketing at XYB and TransUnion; whole-function PMM at Onum.
People leadership
A six-person team across Marketing, Product Management, and consultancy at TransUnion.
Priority choices
Each case explains what was done first and why.
Commercial understanding
Years of enterprise selling and Sales Engineering at Rubrik and Check Point Software Technologies before moving into Product and Marketing.

A Confidential Conversation About a Leadership Role.

Share the company's situation and whether the role is CMO / VP Marketing or VP Product Marketing.

Discuss a permanent leadership role