Ellyn Kranc

Ellyn Kranc

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Vice President, Digital Demand Marketing
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

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  • Smartsheet
    Vice President, Digital Demand Marketing
    Smartsheet
    Apr 2026 - Current (7 months)
  • Apptio an IBM Company
    Senior Director, Global Digital Marketing and Marketing Operations
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Apr 2025 - Mar 2026 (1 year)
    As Senior Director of Global Digital Marketing and Marketing Operations, I lead the strategy, execution, and optimization of Apptio’s digital presence and marketing infrastructure to drive growth, engagement, and operational excellence. My responsibilities span across global digital marketing initiatives, marketing technology, analytics, and web operations.

    Digital Marketing Strategy: Define and execute global digital marketing strategies that align with business objectives, ensuring consistent brand presence across all digital channels.

    Marketing Operations Leadership: Oversee marketing technology stack, campaign operations, lead management, and data governance to enable scalable, efficient marketing programs.
  • Apptio an IBM Company
    Global Director, Digital Strategy
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Aug 2021 - Apr 2025 (3 years 9 months)
    Apptio was a B2B SaaS company that helped technology leaders better understand and act on their technology investment data, including traditional IT costs, public or hybrid cloud investments, and agile transformation. Apptio was acquired by IBM from Vista Equity Partners in August 2023.

    In this role, I led Digital Marketing for Apptio, driving demand generation and brand awareness across all product lines. I managed a team of talented digital channel owners specializing in Paid Media, Social, and Content, serving as a player/coach to achieve goals for lead and pipeline generation.

    My team executed cutting-edge demand generation and brand awareness campaigns across paid media, webinars, social media, and employee advoca
  • Apptio an IBM Company
    Senior Manager, Digital Marketing
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Mar 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 6 months)
    Develops and leads digital marketing strategy for IT financial management, cloud cost optimization and enterprise agile planning software solutions (B2B SaaS). Key objectives for digital strategy include achieving goals for demand generation/lead generation and driving brand awareness and authority.

    Manages and coaches a team of three channel owners who manage various digital marketing channels including Paid Search (Google Ads, Microsoft Ads), Paid Social (LinkedIn Ads, Facebook Ads), Organic Social, Employee Advocacy and Webinars/Virtual Events.

    Collaborates cross-functionally with other leaders in Marketing, PMM, P&E, HR, Recruiting and other functions to ensure that Digital Marketing strategy effectively supports
  • Hip eCommerce
    Head of Marketing
    Hip eCommerce
    Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 (8 months)
    Led Marketing and Customer Success for a marketplace start-up focused on bringing the collectibles industry into the 21st century by building collectible-specific communities where buyers and sellers can connect over their passions.
    Led Marketing and Customer Engagement teams in efforts to grow Gross Merchandise Value (GMV). Directly managed and scaled Paid Search marketing campaigns on Google Ads and Bing Ads. Oversaw email marketing strategy and execution including campaigns for Site Marketing, Seller Marketing, and automated triggered emails. Led team in efforts to optimize email campaigns to drive GMV as well as develop new campaigns to both improve user experience as well as drive GMV growth. Attended industry events as a brand
  • Adwerx
    Director of Product Marketing
    Adwerx
    Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 (1 year)
    Led team responsible for revenue-generating marketing channels including Paid Social, Paid Search and Email Marketing programs. Developed and executed go-to-market strategy for new digital advertising products in Real Estate & Finance industries. Worked cross-functionally across Product, Marketing, and Sales organizations to create Product Marketing function within company and develop systems and processes to improve marketing support of Product and Sales teams. Tested emerging marketing channels as avenues for growth including ConnectedTV advertising, chat marketing, and other programmatic display technologies.
  • Adwerx
    Senior Product Marketing Manager
    Adwerx
    Sep 2017 - Jul 2018 (11 months)
    Drove revenue growth through digital marketing channels for retail business. Managed day to day operations of Paid Search, Paid Social and Programmatic Display advertising channels as well as oversaw performance of email marketing channels and expansion of marketing database. Communicated marketing channel performance to executive leadership team and developed business cases for new strategies and campaigns.
  • Adwerx
    Product Marketing Manager
    Adwerx
    Oct 2016 - Sep 2017 (1 year)
    Oversaw day to day operations of digital paid acquisition channels including Facebook ads, Google AdWords, Bing ads, LinkedIn ads and others. Leveraged analytics tools (MixPanel, Google Analytics, Periscope and Tableau) to gain insights on campaign performance and inefficiencies to optimize and scale marketing efforts.
  • WedPics
    User Acquisition Marketing Lead
    WedPics
    Feb 2016 - Sep 2016 (8 months)
    Oversaw all user acquisition strategies and developed new ideas for user growth and retention at the time of acquisition. Managed paid Facebook ad campaigns, Google AdWords, Pinterest Promoted Pins and Bing Search Ads. Utilized analytics stack (AppsFlyer, MixPanel and Domo) to attribute marketing spend to user behavior and optimized ad campaigns based on the available insights.
  • ROI Revolution Inc
    Paid Search Strategy Manager
    ROI Revolution Inc
    Aug 2015 - Feb 2016 (7 months)
    Developed advanced strategies for growth and success of portfolio of varied paid search accounts. Managed account analyst team for strategy implementation. Maintained positive and professional relationships with clients.
  • ROI Revolution Inc
    Senior Analyst, Paid Search Marketing
    ROI Revolution Inc
    Mar 2015 - Aug 2015 (6 months)
    Managed pay-per-click marketing campaigns including Google AdWords, Bing Ads and Facebook Ads Manager on behalf of e-commerce retailers. Maintained positive relationships with clients through regular performance reporting, effective communication and meeting client goals for profitability or growth. Assisted in the training of new employees and served as a thought leader and innovator for new campaign strategies.
  • ROI Revolution Inc
    Analyst, Paid Search Marketing
    ROI Revolution Inc
    Sep 2013 - Mar 2015 (1 year 7 months)
    Managed pay-per-click marketing campaigns including Google AdWords, Bing Ads and Facebook Ads Manager on behalf of e-commerce retailers. Maintained positive relationships with clients through regular performance reporting, effective communication and meeting client goals for profitability or growth.
  • Major League Baseball
    Public Relations Social Media Intern
    Major League Baseball
    May 2012 - Aug 2012 (4 months)
  • Ben  Jerrys
    Assistant Manager
    Ben Jerrys
    May 2011 - Apr 2013 (2 years)
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  • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A, Public Policy, Management & Society
    The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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