Matt Crane

Pre-Sales, Sales, Product, GTM @ Salesforce | Pre-Sales, Sales, Post-Sales @ Cognos

Cincinnati Metropolitan Area2k followers
Salesforceex-Cognos Australiaex-PwC

I make it easier for Salesforce to Make, Market, Sell, and Implement our products. I started with the company @ $350M and it's now $37B (2025).

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Led the launch, acceleration, and growth of 8 products (legacy, acquired, and homegrown, including the fastest from 0-$100M). Work across Sales and Solution Engineering, Finance, Support, Product Operations, Customer Success, Partnerships, Product Management, Product and Field Marketing, UX, Research & Insights, Documentation, and external SI Partners and Customers to deliver the optimal product, support, sales, and purchase experiences. Key accomplishments: • Define product market fit and sales qualification guides (drove improved opportunity quality and win rates) • Create product pricing and business value calculators (streamlined quoting and ROI) • Develop strategic ISV partnerships to fill product or industry gaps across product lines • Leverage Voice of Customer input, industry analysts, and ISV partners to drive product strategy & features • Create and moderate external product communities for partners and customers (delivering customer and partner success) • Product margin analysis to support packaging/pricing changes (ensured appropriate margins, removed selling friction, & increased wins for price-competitive deals) • Define, build, and deliver worldwide SI product enablement (2700 attendees, 700 firms, 74 countries) • Define, build, and deliver internal sales, customer success, and support product enablement • Manage R&D product pilot programs • Build and deliver product demonstrations and best practices • Build product documentation and best practices for industry and functional use cases • Deliver customer roadmap & executive presentations • Customer Support process mapping, education, & improvement (>50% drop in escalations) • Trained internal Product Managers on best practices for customer executive presentations Products covered: Partner Relationship Management (PRM), Sales Engagement, Conversational AI, Einstein GPT, Workforce Planning & Scheduling | CRM (Sales, Service, Marketing) | Contact Center Telephony | Digital Service channels (Chat, SMS, WhatsApp, Apple Business Chat, FB Messenger) | IoT | Bots | Automation

Career Timeline

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GTM Index

  1. SALESFORCEJOB
    1. Service Cloud Specialist (…
      9M
    2. Sr. Dir, Product Managemen…
      2Y 11M
    3. GTM
      4Y 10M
    4. GTM IoT Cloud
      11M
    5. Strategic Account Executiv…
      11M
    6. GTM Analytics Cloud
      11M
    7. Senior Sales Eng
      8Y
  2. COGNOS AUSTRALIAJOB
    1. Various
      7Y 11M
  3. PWCJOB
    1. Management Consultant - Pe…
      1Y 11M
  4. AMERICAN ELECTRIC POWER & BANC ONEJOB
    1. ERP & Technical Consultant
      1Y 11M
  5. THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYJOB
    1. Network Mgr (ARMS PeopleSo…
      2Y 11M
  6. VARIOUS COMPANIESJOB
    1. Various
      10Y 11M

Time in market 42Y 9MOpen 8Closed 11Stints 19

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  1. Job: Salesforce — Service Cloud Specialist (Sale Engineer) · 2026-01 – present · 7 mo — Product specialist for Service Cloud solutions across CCAS, Service AI and automation, and call center solutions.
  2. Job: Salesforce — Sr. Director, Product Management/GTM - Partner Cloud · 2022-12 – 2025-11 · 2y 11mo
  3. Job: Salesforce — GTM / Product Management - Service Cloud · 2018-01 – 2022-11 · 4y 10mo
  4. Job: Salesforce — GTM IoT Cloud · 2017-01 – 2017-12 · 11 mo
  5. Job: Salesforce — Strategic Account Executive, Analytics Cloud (Retail/CPG) · 2016-01 – 2016-12 · 11 mo
  6. Job: Salesforce — GTM Analytics Cloud · 2015-01 – 2015-12 · 11 mo
  7. Job: Salesforce — Senior Sales Engineer · 2006-12 – 2014-12 · 8y
  8. Job: Cognos Australia — Various · 1999 – 2006 · 7y — Cognos delivered industry-leading reporting and analytics products, eventually becoming one of the leading Business Intelligence companies in the world. It acquired enterprise planning and budgeting solutions as well as a financial consolidation application making it a critical solution for financial executives as well. Led teams and also acted as an individual contributor. Positions held: Sales Account Executive (mid-market) Pre-sales leader Pre-sales engineer Post-Sales Consultant
  9. Job: PwC — Management Consultant - PeopleSoft ERP Practice · 1998 – 1999 · 1y
  10. Job: American Electric Power & Banc One — ERP & Technical Consultant · 1997 – 1998 · 1y — PeopleSoft analyst and developer at AEP Technology consultant to the CEO at Banc One
  11. Job: The Ohio State University — Network Manager (ARMS PeopleSoft Project) · 1995 – 1997 · 2y
  12. Job: Various Companies — Various · 1984 – 1994 · 10y — A variety of interesting part-time roles (some simultaneously) during 4th-12th grades and into college years: Paper route Sales, inventory, and loss prevention (Toy Train Hobbies) TV/VCR repair (VCR Hospital) Produce Department (Dorothy Lane Market) Merchandiser (Coca-Cola) Landscaper (Horticulture Management + Lawnscapers) Office Furniture installer (APG)
  13. School: Miami University — MBA, Finance
  14. School: The Ohio State University — Bachelor of Science - BS, Management Information Systems, General
  15. School: University of Cincinnati Carl H. Lindner College of Business — Accounting and Finance
  16. School: Kotter — Change Leader
  17. School: Salesforce Accelerate Leadership Program
  18. School: Xavier University - School of Business Administration — MBA, Finance
  19. School: 280Group — Optimal Product Management

Skills

SalesforceMakeEnterprise SoftwareCloud ComputingSolution SellingTechnical AnalysisFutures TradingIndex OptionsOptions StrategiesSales EnablementSales ProcessBusiness AnalysisBusiness AnalyticsBusiness IntelligencePre-salesAnalyticsGo-to-market StrategyPaaSSalesSaaSCRM

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