Marketing in the Age of AI with Wiz's CMO Raaz Herzberg

16 Jul 2025 · 41 min
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This is a transcript of a YouTube interview (Jul 16, 2025) with Raaz Herzberg, CMO of Wiz, discussing how she built marketing from a product/engineering background. Key themes: rapid brand-building when market awareness was near zero; using unconventional, attention-grabbing campaigns (CTFs, a meditation app for security engineers) and strong in-house design; an untraditional marketing org split where field marketing reports into sales while domain-specific marketing reports to the CMO; hiring the top 10–15% of curious, humble ‘superstars’ and prioritizing quality hires over headcount. On AI, Herzberg describes broad adoption across her team (AI tools made individuals dramatically more effective), an internal Wiz “bell checker” to keep customer communications on-brand and technically accurate, and the view that curiosity and adaptability matter most. Measurement focuses on audience and community growth (LinkedIn exponential growth, community channels, and a stated desire for ~20% QoQ growth) and qualitative warming of rooms with brand awareness. She repeatedly emphasizes humility, deep domain content for engineering/security audiences, and avoiding compromise when hiring.

Questions this video answers

July 16, 2025.

Alphabet/Google agreed to buy Wiz for $32 billion.

May 2026.

Of the attendees referenced: 68 were VP-level or higher; 36% were CEOs and founders; 25% were AI experts.

~20% growth per quarter (exponential, not linear).

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