Customer marketing has a branding problem (at least in B2B) 🙃
I agree that everyone thinks we're the case study + email + community forum + kitchen sink team. Nobody's thinking "oh that's the team running the expansion playbook." but that's literally what we are — or should be. I'm closer to a growth PMM than anything else in marketing and I keep that title internally because product, eng, and sales will absolutely brush me off otherwise.
ALSO we're sleeping on AI compared to PMM. I'm in a bunch of those communities and the PMM slacks have whole channels just for Claude and Openclaw. There are tons of courses and PMM influencers on LinkedIn talking about AI workflows and I struggle to find the same for customer marketing.
The harsh truth is that it's an employer's market. "I've done this before" doesn't matter nearly as much as "I can figure it out with AI". I say this as someone who has the blue chip names on my resume butb the recruiters who reach out always care more about my LinkedIn posts on AI.
RevOps already learned this the hard way... GTM engineer is just RevOps with AI fluency baked in. I think we're next in line for that same reckoning.