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If you鈥檙e a product marketer in 2025, odds are you鈥檙e stretched thin, strategically vital, and quietly burning out.
The confirms what most of us already knew: product marketing is no longer a support function, it鈥檚 a strategic growth engine. And while that shift should feel like a win, most PMMs are left managing more responsibilities than ever, without the team or tools to keep up.
Let鈥檚 break down what鈥檚 really happening behind the slides and strategy decks and how modern product marketers are adapting.
PMMs went from 鈥渇orgotten middle鈥 to strategic core
A few years ago, product marketing lived in limbo. You weren鈥檛 quite product, not quite marketing. You launched things, updated messaging, enabled sales, and quietly kept the business running.
That鈥檚 changed.
In 2025, 41% of companies now identify as product-led, up from just 31% in 2024. With that shift, PMMs have become critical to translating product value into revenue. You鈥檙e now expected to:
- Shape positioning and narrative
- Drive launches and adoption
- Equip sales to win
- Enable customer success to retain
And finally, leadership is paying attention. According to the report, 69% of PMMs are now part of leadership conversations, up from 66% last year. puts it this way:
鈥淲hat follows a multi-year focus on revenue retention and monetization during a downturn? A return to product as the center of value delivery.鈥
PMMs are no longer the forgotten middle. You鈥檙e the linchpin of growth.
But there鈥檚 a catch.
Your team didn鈥檛 triple. Your responsibilities did.
While PMMs are being elevated, teams aren鈥檛 growing at the same pace. In fact, 44% of product marketing teams still consist of just one or two people. Yet your responsibilities have exploded:
- Sales enablement ownership rose from 64% to 79%
- Customer onboarding nearly doubled (19% to 38%)
- Website and docs ownership jumped from 51% to 65%
, Senior PMM at Satisfi Labs, summed it up:
鈥淭he role is expanding beyond just launches and messaging to cover more strategic areas that impact growth and customer success.鈥
You鈥檙e no longer just launching features, you鈥檙e maintaining the systems that support them across the full customer lifecycle. That includes:
- Updating sales decks
- Refreshing onboarding flows
- Maintaining FAQs, competitive comparisons, one-pagers, and battlecards
- Coordinating with product, marketing, sales, and CS
The moment a feature changes or a competitor updates their pricing, half your content is suddenly out of date. This is the hidden tax of being strategic and tactical at the same time.

How InMoment and Q4 scaled the enablement of marketing content
Modern PMMs don't need another bloated enablement platform, they need systems that scale their knowledge without adding to their workload.
InMoment faced a fragmented knowledge ecosystem post-acquisition, with a failing CMS and siloed information. Jenna Siegel, Senior Director of Revenue Enablement, sought a solution that integrated knowledge, content, and messaging into daily workflows. 黑料吃瓜网 provided just that, combining just-in-time enablement with a powerful CMS.
"We were deploying training, but we weren鈥檛 reinforcing it. Our reps weren鈥檛 going back to the LMS, and our CMS was too messy to be useful. We needed a system that made knowledge part of everyday workflows."
鈥 Jenna Siegel, Senior Director of Revenue Enablement at InMoment
The results were transformative:
- 92% license utilization within the first 30 days
- 84% of reps actively using 黑料吃瓜网 to find answers
- 90% reduction in time spent searching for content

At Q4, Richard Thibault, Head of Revenue Enablement and Training, experienced similar challenges with clunky knowledge management systems. After implementing 黑料吃瓜网, Q4 saw a 3脳 ROI from usage and productivity improvements, a 30% drop in ad-hoc questions to managers, and more than 4,000 hours reclaimed per quarter.
"We tripled our self-serve engagement, which was the goal. But what I didn鈥檛 expect was how much it freed up my team to focus on strategic work." - Richard Thibault, Head of Revenue Enablement at Q4
These stories highlight the shift PMMs need: from being reactive content managers to strategic enablers driving impact across the organization.
The real bottleneck: Content decay and context loss
The problem isn鈥檛 just that PMMs create content. It鈥檚 that they own living content, which means every change triggers a ripple effect:
- You update messaging 鈫 now you need to refresh decks, talk tracks, web copy, CS docs, and training guides
- A competitor makes a move 鈫 battlecards, enablement assets, and objection-handling templates are suddenly out of sync
- A product update ships 鈫 onboarding, tooltips, and internal communications must adapt instantly
Without the right product marketing tool to manage this at scale, PMMs become the single point of failure. You鈥檙e stuck in reactive mode, not strategic mode.
This is where AI-powered enablement platforms make the difference. They don鈥檛 just store content, they sync, surface, and adapt it in real time.
And they don't rely on reps finding the right doc. They deliver the right answers or recommend the right content exactly when and where reps need it.
You鈥檙e the translator between teams, but you're also the bottleneck
PMMs are often called the glue between teams. But let鈥檚 be real: glue isn鈥檛 scalable.
According to the 2025 PMM聽report:
- 89% of PMMs work closely with product
- 81% with marketing
- 73% with sales
- 46% with leadership
- 40% with customer success
As , Product Marketing Leader at Meta, noted:
鈥淧roduct expects us to be market experts, and sales expects us to have the detailed technical product knowledge of entire teams of PMs.鈥
You鈥檙e the bridge. The interpreter. The single source of truth.
And when you鈥檙e operating from disjointed tools, slides, Slack threads, outdated wikis, that makes you the bottleneck too.
AI is changing product marketing...but not how you think
Forget the hype about AI writing your messaging. The real value for PMMs is automation and orchestration.
In the , enterprise AI adoption is focused less on cost-cutting and more on driving growth and accelerating revenue. Companies aren鈥檛 asking: 鈥淐an AI replace marketing?鈥 They鈥檙e asking: 鈥淐an AI unblock sales?鈥
That鈥檚 where 黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 approach to just-in-time enablement comes in:
- Domain-trained AI: 黑料吃瓜网 knows your specific products, processes, and pitches based on the content you've synced and the knowledge base you've built out
- Just-in-time guidance: Reps get the right answers, content, and messaging inside the tools they already use
- Content sync at scale: Update a message once, deploy it everywhere
This is AI that enables your go-to-market strategy - not another copilot that generates fluff.
The metrics leadership actually cares about
PMMs are under pressure to prove ROI, but 13% of orgs don鈥檛 even track PMM-specific KPIs. And 33% of PMMs have no dedicated budget.
That鈥檚 why top PMMs are adopting tools with built-in analytics to prove impact:
- See exactly what content is getting used
- See what reps are searching for and where gaps exist
- Tie content engagement directly to pipeline
黑料吃瓜网, for example, helped teams measure how fast new reps found answers, how often enablement content was used, and where deals were getting stuck. Those insights drive smarter content, not just more content.
What the smartest PMMs are doing differently in 2025
They鈥檙e not trying to do more with less. They鈥檙e refusing to do everything manually and ensuring that what they do create is measurable, accessible, and impactful.
According to the 2025 PMA report, investments are shifting to:
- Sales enablement platforms: +15% YOY
- Knowledge bases: +6% YOY
- Competitive intelligence tools: +10% YOY
These aren鈥檛 just software purchases. They鈥檙e scaling strategies.
They allow lean PMM teams to:
- Equip sales without hand-holding
- Drive onboarding without live training
- Update messaging without chaos
- Support product launches without burning out
The bottom line: Product knowledge is your hidden growth lever
You know your product. You know your customer. You've created awesome content. But the value of all that disappears if it鈥檚 disconnected from the seller's workflow or buried in content repositories nobody has time to sift through.
黑料吃瓜网 helps PMMs turn product knowledge into repeatable, scalable revenue impact.
"We鈥檙e not replacing PMMs, we鈥檙e giving them their time back and multiplying their impact," said Melanie Fellay, 黑料吃瓜网 CEO and author of .
In a world where content decays overnight and GTM strategies shift weekly, PMMs need more than collaboration. They need enablement infrastructure that scales with them.
So, here鈥檚 the question:
You鈥檝e become the most strategic function in the org. Are your systems keeping up?
Let鈥檚 talk about how 黑料吃瓜网 helps PMMs like you scale your impact, without scaling your burnout.