Product Marketing & GTM Consulting

I help AI and B2B SaaS companies know their customers, sharpen their story, and grow.

14+ years across product marketing, go-to-market, and growth, from early-stage startups to late-stage enterprises. I work embedded with founders and executive teams at PE and VC-backed companies.

Julia Hugg
$0 → $600Ksigned at Arch, from zero
+45% qualified leadsat Ultravox, in 60 days
"a fantastic framework"Founder, Arch

The GTM playbook has changed.

Anyone can generate endless content now, and most of it says nothing, because it was written without ever talking to a customer. Buyers feel that sameness, recognize the slop, and increasingly get AI-driven recommendations before a sales conversation ever starts.

In order to differentiate yourself, and reach your target buyer, you need real customer evidence, sharp positioning, and human judgment to bring it all together.

As an AI-native operator, I build the systems, the context and the content. But the core of the work stays human: having the conversations, adjusting interviews in real time to get better answers, then putting all of the pieces together so it's useful across product, sales and marketing. That can look like messaging and positioning, case studies, interactive content, and product feedback that shapes the roadmap. Someone who knows how all those pieces fit together cannot be outsourced to AI.

The flagship program

Voice of the customer, turned into growth

I interview your customers, your prospects, and subject matter experts on your team, then turn what they say into sharper messaging and positioning, product feedback, and content to help you win.

01

Interviews

Customers, prospects, win/loss, churned accounts, and SMEs on your team. Structured conversations to uncover actionable insights.

02

Insight

All conversations are synthesized into patterns: what buyers care about, how they decide, and opportunities for product or service improvement.

03

Messaging & positioning

The findings become your story: positioning, messaging, and a narrative that gets translated across sales, marketing and the product.

04

Content & product feedback

Case studies, proof points, and interactive websites that support the entire customer journey, designed to fill gaps in your process and drop-offs in your funnel.

Deliverables are built in Claude Code - then handed over to your team

I don't hand over a deck and leave, but create deliverables that your team can own such as interactive websites and case study pages, dashboards, and the workflows and systems that manage customer feedback, content ideas, and performance over time. The research compounds because the infrastructure holding it keeps working after I'm gone. I run it as a fractional monthly program.

Beyond the flagship program

Voice of the customer is where most engagements start, but I plug in wherever the business needs it most. Every engagement is embedded: I work as a strategic extension of your team, usually 10 to 12 hours a week on a monthly retainer with a three-month minimum.

Positioning & messaging

Strategic narrative, category framing, and messaging frameworks tailored by audience and channel.

Competitive playbooks

Market mapping, competitive intelligence, and battlecards your sales team will actually use.

Pricing & packaging

Pricing structures and packages aligned to customer segments, use cases, and value delivered.

Content systems

Content engines that produce launch, demand, and sales content at startup speed without sacrificing quality.

Sales enablement

Training, collateral, and sales plays built with commercial teams, tested in real deals.

Launch & GTM process

Tiered launch frameworks with clear success metrics, cross-functional ownership, and 30/60/90-day accountability.

AI workflows & systems

The context, workflows, and tooling that make all of the above faster and cheaper every month.

About

I have spent 14+ years building and scaling product marketing at B2B companies. I was the first B2B marketing hire at Shopkick and built the function through acquisition. At WeWork I was the founding member of enterprise product marketing as that business grew from 15% to 45% of revenue, and I later pitched and led a global property marketing team of 15. At Diligent I led the product marketing shift from a single product to a multi-product governance platform, and at Sojern I led the product marketing team through the company's transition into a travel marketing and data platform.

Since 2024 I have consulted with PE and VC-backed startups across AI infrastructure, voice AI, data intelligence, and B2B SaaS, working directly with founders and executive teams as an embedded partner. I approach product marketing with an owner's mindset: responsible for the outcome, not just the deliverable.

I live in Nashville with my family.

Companies I've worked with

In-house leadership
WeWork Diligent Sojern Shopkick
Recent consulting clients
Arch Ultravox Vast.ai beehiiv Unacast Venntel Docket Anova Anatomy Financial Apprentice Wpromote

Selected engagements

Six different engagements turning customer and market insight into growth.

Embedded GTM · Workforce intelligence

Arch

Sixteen months embedded with a pre-revenue founding team, testing positioning concepts, product directions, and audiences in market until the motion emerged that signed the first design partners.

5 design partnersand $600K in business signed, starting from zero
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Strategic narrative · Voice AI

Ultravox

Built the strategic narrative, messaging frameworks, and content engine for an open-source voice AI platform, then translated it into a website revamp and flagship case study.

+45% qualified leadsin the first 60 days post-launch
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Customer insights & ICP · GPU cloud

Vast.ai

Ran the first formal customer research program for a $30M ARR GPU marketplace moving upmarket, and turned the interviews into five net new case studies, an ICP, and a lifecycle marketing plan.

5 net new case studieswith landing page views up 201% after launch
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Segmentation & repositioning · Travel tech

Sojern

Rebuilt hotel segmentation from an arbitrary SMB and enterprise split into five segments based on how hotels actually buy, then repositioned the platform, solutions, and GTM around them.

+30% revenuewith ICP penetration up 133%
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New GTM function · Enterprise

WeWork

Pitched, funded, and led a global property marketing function of 15 that repositioned WeWork against traditional landlords for enterprise buyers.

$50M incremental revenuewith total contract value up 30%
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Launch process · Enterprise SaaS

Diligent

Designed an outcome-driven, tiered product launch framework and ran the first Tier 1 release through it, with metrics and ownership defined before launch day.

30/60/90/120-day targetsaccountability built into every launch since
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What it's like to work with me

"Julia is one of the highest-performing members of the Marketing team, respected by her peers and her partners alike. She drove several strategic initiatives that have contributed to meaningful business outcomes, and built mutually-beneficial partnerships across various functions, from Enterprise Sales and Strategy to Central Growth to Technology."

Indy Sen · VP of Product Marketing, WeWork

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Let's talk

If you are building something in AI or enterprise software and need a marketing partner who can move fast, think systemically, and execute at a high level, I would love to hear from you.