Post by Nate Slayton

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Senior Director of Product Marketing at Zocks | AI for Advisors! And after three full days at Zocks, I can confirm my three big reasons for joining were spot on. 1️⃣ Real AI, real pain. Zocks is building AI that actually does the work — no vaporware, no hype. Just smart AI solving a real, tedious pain (note-taking & client follow-ups) for a super-defined market (wealth advisors). This is a product marketer's dream, and the speed of innovation here is unlike anything I've seen. 2️⃣ Glory of the blank canvas. Sometimes you have to prove to yourself you can still go from zero to one. I'm a builder at heart, and I'm fired up to be scrappy, move fast, and finally unleash new AI ideas and all the frameworks I've been hoarding over the years. 3️⃣ The band’s back together. Working with people you like and trust is what matters most. When Michael Murphy called, it was a no-brainer. A bunch of us have done this before — at Hearsay Systems and other fintech SaaS adventures — and we know how to deliver value and have fun along the way. (This isn’t Mark Gilbert's first rodeo.) I'm only able to take this on because of the incredible people at 6sense who helped me grow and lead with empathy: Greg Bell, Jason Telmos, Latané Conant (she/her), Michael George, Jam Khan, Paul Osmond, Adam Kaiser, Saima Rashid, Gina Rau, Allie Gollner, Sidney Gomez, Jeannine Crispino, and Viral Bajaria. And of course to my 6sense Product Marketing fam, you know who you are and I miss you all like crazy: Ben Funkhouser, Courtney Smith, Bailey Booher, Julie Donnell, Rachel Zerilla, Tracy H. Hensley, Leif Parcell, and Raquel Lawrence (and the extended fam: Julien Clement and Randy Wilhelm 😃)