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Hilary Crane

San Antonio,TX

Summary

Brand credibility starts and ends with the customer and their story needs to be told. Professional experience spans customer advocacy, marketing, sales and account management, film, PR, social amplification, thought leadership and more.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Program Manager, Customer Advocacy

Postman
10.2021 - Current

Bringing customer stories to life through film, written case studies, podcasts, event support, social amplification, and asset creation.

  • Manage team of 1 customer marketer and 1 contractor
  • Own strategy for global customer advocacy program
  • Produce global customer stories in all Regions
  • Collaborate with product, sales, sales enablement, customer success and marketing to create high impact customer POV content; owning strategy for full funnel content creation
  • Provide best practice SEO recommendations for content creation and story performance

Senior Customer Advocacy Manager

Rackspace
05.2019 - 10.2021

Managed the customer advocacy program for the North American Region.

  • Leveraged experience and understanding of Cloud computing to effectively communicate technical richness throughout the customer story.
  • Oversaw creation of key assets used to tell the customer story including written case studies, film testimonials, webinars, event support and more.
  • Worked cross-functionally with worldwide internal teams to market and highlight customer success assets at both tactical (i.e. sales references) and strategic levels (i.e. PR/AR opportunities)
  • Managed reference request fulfillment and tracked reference activity and outcomes in centralized location.

Strategic Account Manager

Rackspace
06.2015 - 05.2019
  • Interface between the client and support infrastructure
  • Position sales, networking and PR opportunities to manage complex situations ensuring Rackspace's reputation for Fanatical Support is upheld

Education

Business/Marketing

San Antonio College
San Antonio, TX
1998

Skills

Case Studies

Film Testimonial

Event Support

Analytics

Sales Enablement

Voice of the Customer

Accomplishments

  • February 2024 nominated for Top100 Influencers & Strategists in Customer Marketing & Advocacy
  • February 2023 won 3 Lens Awards for excellence in customer marketing for WhatsApp film
  • December 2022 On the Button Podcast featured guest discussing my work and the importance of video marketing

Timeline

Senior Program Manager, Customer Advocacy

Postman
10.2021 - Current

Senior Customer Advocacy Manager

Rackspace
05.2019 - 10.2021

Strategic Account Manager

Rackspace
06.2015 - 05.2019

Business/Marketing

San Antonio College
Hilary Crane