Alex Lentz

GTM Systems Leader

A Systems & Operations leader with over ten years of experience finding elegant solutions for complex problems. From high-performing individual contributor at a startup to managing global teams at publicly traded companies, Alex builds systems and processes that make data actionable for go-to-market teams—leveraging AI to automate workflows and unlock insights at scale.

10+
Years Managing GTM Systems
SFDC Certified
The Journey
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Head of GTM Systems

Honeycomb.io

June 2025 - Present
Portland, Oregon

Leading go-to-market systems strategy and operations for a leading observability platform.

CHAPTER III

GTM Systems

Instabase

Nov 2022 - June 2025
2 years 8 months
Portland, Oregon

Drove GTM systems initiatives for a platform enabling powerful machine-learning applications.

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Senior Manager, Business Systems

SurveyMonkey (Momentive)

Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
6 years 8 months
Portland, Oregon

Player-coach for a team overseeing GTM and development of all global sales, marketing, and customer operations systems.

  • Managed SFDC instance with 1,200+ users across Sales, Service, and Marketing Clouds
  • Led Salesforce CPQ implementation and optimization
  • Progressed from Sales & Marketing Ops Analyst → Senior Solutions Architect → Manager → Senior Manager
  • Managed end-to-end project delivery lifecycle including process design, testing, integration, data migration, and change management
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SDR → Account Executive

TechValidate Software

Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
1 year 6 months
Emeryville, California

Leading content marketing automation platform serving the B2B market. Customers included Fortune 50 companies like HP, IBM, GE, SAP, Dell, Hitachi, and EMC.

  • Acquired by SurveyMonkey
Skills & Expertise

CRM & Marketing Automation

Salesforce (Sales, Service, Marketing Cloud)Salesforce CPQHubSpotMarketoPardot

Go-to-Market Operations

Revenue OperationsSales OperationsMarketing OperationsCustomer OperationsProcess Design

Data & Analytics

Business AnalysisData MigrationReporting & DashboardsData WarehouseIntegration

Leadership & Methodology

Team ManagementScrum/AgileChange ManagementProject DeliveryCross-functional Collaboration
Certifications

Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator

Salesforce

Salesforce Certified Sales Cloud Consultant

Salesforce

Marketo Certified Expert

Adobe

LeanData Fundamentals Certification

LeanData

Hands On Essentials - Data Warehouse

Snowflake

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Scrum Alliance

Education

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Bachelor of Science (B.S.)

Hospitality and Tourism Administration/Management

2009 - 2011

University of California, Santa Cruz

Studies

Computer Science

2008

Community

Wizards of Ops

Member

Active member of the premier revenue operations community

2020 - Present

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Let's Connect

Looking to optimize your GTM systems or build scalable operations? I'd love to hear from you.

Portland, Oregon • Available for consulting and full-time opportunities