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Raianne Reiss

Caretaker · DISC type Si
Chief Marketing Officer at Skillsoft
📍 Greater Chicago Area, United States

Raianne Reiss is the Chief Marketing Officer at Skillsoft, with over 20 years of experience leading marketing for global brands like Yext and Amazon Web Services. She holds a BS from Northern Illinois University. Colleagues describe her as creative, focused, and a top-notch marketing professional with expertise in go-to-market strategy.

She is passionate about the power of technology to drive transformation and the art of powerful storytelling. Her commitment to unlocking human potential through continuous learning aligns directly with her leadership role at Skillsoft, a mission she finds deeply resonant.

She was instrumental in Yexts acquisition of Hearsay Systems, creating the industrys first end-to-end digital presence platform.

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Experience
25 Years
Current Role
Chief Marketing Officer
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Greater Chicago Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Raianne shows up

Nice But Slow
Supportive
Collaborative

They are more likely to go for proven solutions. Win-win scenarios can appeal strongly to them. Unlike D or C types, they are calm as well as friendly and can give the impression of being more receptive than they actually are.

Priorities

Topics Raianne cares about

AI in Marketing
Believes marketers must evolve beyond traditional SEO to creating high-quality, relevant content to succeed in an AI-powered world.
Continuous Learning
Passionate about unlocking human potential through learning, a core mission of her current company, Skillsoft, which she has expressed great excitement for.
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Career

Work history

4-2025
Chief Marketing Officer
Skillsoft
8-2022 - 4-2025
EVP and Chief Marketing Officer
Yext
4-2021 - 8-2022
Vice President, Marketing
Elastic
3-2020 - 4-2021
Head of Americas Marketing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
5-2019 - 3-2020
Head of US Marketing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
In the press

Media appearances

Skillsoft Appoints Raianne Reiss as Chief Marketing Officer. Featured in Skillsoft Investor Relations (press release)
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Education
BS
Northern Illinois University
Social presence
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

S

Steadiness (S)

Steadiness (S) reflects the degree to which a person is likely to focus on cooperation, support and taking everyone along. Those scoring high tend to be consistent and calm.

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