Even the best SaaS in the world can't sell itself, here we describe the ins and outs of building a SaaS marketing team that will propel your SaaS from obscurity to Johnny on the spot. Read more in our blog - https://goo.gl/DmoYbE

1. HOW AN IDEAL
SAAS MARKETING TEAM
SHOULD BE STRUCTURED

2. The ultimate question that
comes before the structure of
a SaaS marketing team is
how many people should be in it.

3. According to extensive research
published on Insightsquared, it depends
on how big your SaaS company is.

4. Here are the few marketing experts that
you want to have onboard before you
start advertising in the B2B market.

5. 1. Vice President of Product Marketing
2. Product Marketing Manager
3. Product Marketing Manager – Sales Enablement
4. Web Developer
5. UX Research Specialist
6. Vice President of Content
7. Content Marketing Manager
8. SEO Manager
9. Data Analyst

6. Vice President of Product
Marketing
The VP of product marketing leads a team of marketers and directly
responds to the CMO. Marketers in this team are responsible for
messaging and delivering the service to market.
The VP of Product Marketing is responsible for bringing services and
features to market while collaborating with the service developer and
customer research teams.

7. This role is crucial for SaaS marketing success, because it stands in the
middle of all efforts and operations. A VP of product marketing has to
have leadership experience, brilliant communication skills and a highly
analytical approach. This person has to be able to communicate with
service developers and designers, customer research analysts and other
departments.

8. Product Marketing Manager
The Product Marketing Manager’s role in your SaaS business marketing
will be to tell other companies in the market the story behind your
service. He should be the one who strongly advocates for specific
features and how they will change the business of people who decide to
buy it. The PPM is also in charge of one more incredibly important task –
designing. the strategy around the new service, update or feature
launch.

9. Since the product marketing manager will have to post on forums, reply
on Quora questions and occasionally blog, they have to possess
excellent written and verbal communication skills. This is because his
role is to present, or better said, sell ideas to potential customers. This
person also has to love to collaborate as they will constantly be involved
in interactions between the employees from the company’s other
departments and prospects.

10. Product Marketing Manager–
Sales Enablement
The role of PMM Sales Enablement is to drive customer growth every
day. This person has to be able to dominate the competitive landscape
by optimizing the sales process. Main responsibitilities include:
 work closely with customers in order to identify pain points and learn from their
experiences
 write customer success stories
 analyze the competition and use a broad specter of data to support the ideas they
are communicating to the prospects and other marketing team members

11. Personality traits to look for when
hiring people for this position are:
 Great communication skills able to make tough decisions when
prioritizing features and updates
 Problem Solving through a Collaboration Mindset Strategical
Thinking;

12. Web Developer
Since you are a SaaS company, your website is one of your primary
marketing assets. It has to be functional and beautifully designed.
Along with practical web development skills, a web developer should
also have an eye for design. This person is crucial for your marketing
success and he has to be able to collaborate with graphic designers and
service marketers.

13. They should be able to create responsive websites and deliver a great
website experience in order to drive action. Above all, this person has to
be innovative so that your company can benefit from the latest UI
trends, best practices in web development and agile methodology.

14. UX Research Specialist
The role of a UX research specialist is to bring improvement to website
design and your application user interface, to further improve the
usability of both.
Along with practical web development skills, a web developer should
also have an eye for design. This person will make your application easy
to use and allow you to advertise your service as one with a very short
onboarding process.

15.  do user research, and persona and scenario development,
 predict how the service will be used in order to fully optimize it,
 make sure that the user interface stays user-friendly in
all sections of the app,
 effectively collaborate with software developers, content designers and
marketing teams, to ensure that each of their efforts provide beautiful
experience to end users.
The UX research specialist
must be able to:

16. Content Marketing Manager
The ideal SaaS marketing team should always have at least one CMM
who is proficient in writing and producing various projects. This person
is in charge of building and expanding the SaaS company’s digital
footprint through regular blogging, raising awareness and generating
more leads via social media. When you are looking for a person to fill
this position, you want to make sure that they have previous experience
in producing web content and building

17. Personality traits that qualify a
person for this position are:
 Passionate about their work creative
 Loyal and able to dedicate time to get to know the audience
organized and oriented on goals

18. SEO Manager
In today’s market, having an SEO manager on your marketing team is a
must. This person will be in charge of identifying and following on the
opportunities to improve your company’s rank on search engines.
Their responsibilities would be to manage off-site and on-site SEO for
the company and collaborate with other content creators in order to
utilize the specific keywords for reaching your market segment.

19. Personality traits that qualify a
person for this position are:
 Collaborative
 Ambitious and hungry for knowledge
 Innovative and agile
 Reliable - able to use good judgement in various scenarios
 Effective and dedicated to their craft

20. Data Analyst
And last, but not least, your team will need a Data Analyst. This person
should be statistic-savvy.
A Data Analyst’s primary role is to:
 hack the data and provide useful insights to other members of SaaS
B2B marketing team
 implement a statistical test on your marketing efforts and comeback
with the results that show their significance and impact on lead
generation.

21. By analyzing data, the analyst will identify new opportunities for growth
and point out a more efficient way for your marketing team to operate.7
This person should also be able to collaborate with and bring statics
close to other colleges so that they can use it to learn and improve their
skills.

22. So How do you
Hire and Structure
your marketing Team?

23. Regardless of constraints, growing SaaS companies have to structure
their marketing teams and hire people to make sure they meet the
following goals:
 Quickly build a customer base
 Retain customers
 Upsell customers and maintain the loan-to-value ratio

24. The most effective way to achieve these goals is
to leverage pay-per-click and cost-per acquisition campaigns.This way,
SaaS companies can optimize and have insightful metrics on customer
acquisition costs (CAC) in the long term.
In addition, a marketing team should be developing an inbound
marketing strategy to set actions in motion for achieving the same goals
in the long run.

25. Next in line is building educational resources. This way, you will provide
your users with updates on the latest features, upgrades, help them
learn the best practices and get the most out of your software. So, these
teams should always include an experienced marketer, a research
analyst in charge of creating a buyer persona, a data analyst, content
creators (graphic designers and copywriters), a web developer and a
social media manager.

26. For SaaS companies that have been present on the market for years,
marketing to B2B has to heavily rely on inbound marketing. That is
content, SEO, and Social Media. Your marketing team should be able to
write blog posts several times a week and share them on your social
media profiles frequently. The blog posts should not only provide
resourceful information for your intended audience, but also tell stories
about your customers’ successes.

27. Your perfect marketing team should at least have the following:
 Inbound Marketing Manager - if you are just starting with Inbound
Marketing, you should hire an experienced professional who will be able to build a
unique inbound marketing strategy.
 Social Media/Community Manager - this person will be in charge of
developing specific strategies for different social networks. By using the best
practices, integrating the best tools, and tracking the right metrics, this person will
help you grow your audience and convert them into leads and customers.
 Content Marketing Manager - this role stands at the core of any marketing
team. CMM should be able to collaborate with various SaaS department teams and
be able to produce relevant content. This content has to be able to meet the needs
of the target audience and key stakeholders as well.

28. As companies shift their focus from shipping units of a product
to building and monetizing relationships with subscribers, a
whole new culture is needed. A Subscription Culture wraps the
entire company — from product to sales to finance to
operations — around creating sustainable customer value.
- Tien Tzuo, CEO of Zuora, an enterprise software company that
develops SaaS apps for other companies.

29. If it could be summed up in one sentence: a SaaS company culture has
to be both employee and customer centric. Since SaaS companies have
to be very agile (move quickly to create more customer value) and
extremely customer-focused, the emphasis is put on building
exceptional collaboration and communication.

30. Here are two companies that seem to be fighting for the first position
when it comes to the best company culture award - HubSpot and Moz.
Hubspot has a unique model of company culture. They have been
named as the best place to work in Boston for several years in a row.
They are known by their “No Door Policy”. This means that the CEO and
other execs don't have their separate offices but sit with everybody else.

31. The company culture in Moz is coded as
TAGFEE - Transparent, Authentic, Generous, Fun, Empathetic,
Exceptional.
The Moz model of dealing with responsibility really sets the bar. They
say: “We acknowledge that we are entirely responsible for our own
reputation, the level of success we achieve, the brand image we create,
and the contributions we make to the marketing industry”.

32. Both Moz and HubSpot have something in common. These companies
seem to have:
 Strong personal relationships
 Great connections with customers
 Cohesive sets of values and vision
 Individual and collective passion

33. Dave Key, co-founder of FileNet, FieldCentrix and YouMail states that a
healthy SaaS company culture has to promote and nurture these traits:
 Collaborative organization
 Empowered employees and culture that accepts occasionally made
mistakes
 Mutual trust (leaders - employees)
 Treats employees as the most valuable assets

34. Conclusion
As you can see, there are many types of SaaS marketing teams with
different organizational structures. Each role in this team has a unique
set of requirements that complement those of others. There is no ideal
SaaS marketing team that can be considered universal. This is because
every SaaS company has its own unique product, features, design and
specific target market.
You will have to build your own by utilizing some of the best practices
we have mentioned in the article. When you are building your own SaaS
marketing team, you should compare your goals and needs with the
roles and marketing team organizations outlined above, so that you can
put together a team that will custom tailor the experience for you target
market.

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