Ryan Graff
Founder at Olivine Marketing
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Graff is a founder and B2B product marketing leader with 12 years of experience helping tech firms rapidly define differentiated positioning and go-to-market messaging through a focused 90-minute sprint. He has led product marketing and GTM overhauls at high-growth SaaS companies—driving major revenue and pipeline improvements at CometChat and launching platform messaging at Granicus—while also founding a consultancy that turns competitor analysis and cross-functional workshops into tangible messaging frameworks. A former journalist with an MSJ and an MBA from Northwestern, Ryan combines storytelling craft with data-driven segmentation and testing to align teams and sharpen value propositions. He also contributes to open-source documentation work (notably TimelineJS), reflecting a practical attention to clarity and user-facing content that strengthens adoption and sales enablement.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Psychology, BS, Psychology at Colorado State UniversityMSJ, Media Management, Journalism, MSJ, Media Management, Journalism at Northwestern UniversityKellogg School of Management
Spanish
Github Skills (3)
documentation10
editing10
edit10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NUKnightLab/TimelineJS
Jul 2013 - Jan 2015
TimelineJS: A Storytelling Timeline built in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:21 commits, 1 push in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's contributions primarily involve content editing and updates to the TimelineJS documentation. They made numerous revisions to the "How it Works," "Tips and Tricks," and "Help" sections of the documentation. These changes included copy edits for clarity and grammar, adding new questions and answers, and updating examples.
timelinejavascripttimelinejsstorytellingbuilt-in
rcgraff/Knight_Lab_Editorial_2015
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 issue in 1 day
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