Ben Slater: SVP of Marketing at Beamery on Leading and Scaling Marketing from Pre-Revenue to Series D
On this episode of Embracing Erosion, Devon chats with Ben Slater, the Senior Vice President of Marketing at Beamery, a leading talent lifecycle management platform. They discuss how to grow a 50+ person marketing team from scratch, how leadership skills and requirements evolve throughout a company's lifecycle, how to use technology and AI to hire based on potential vs past experience, why it’s becoming increasingly critical to understand and map existing internal talent for redeployment on business-critical needs vs sourcing externally, why in difficult times it’s important to be perceived as a painkiller vs a vitamin, and so much more. Enjoy!