- Joined Cognition
- Jul 2025
- How they joined
- With Windsurf
- Before Windsurf
- Grafana LabsSr. Enterprise Account Executive
- Status
- Current
Overlapped before Cognition
Details
LocationAustin, Texas, United States
Company sitecognition.ai
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish
UniversityGrove City College
LeadershipMicrosoft OfficePublic SpeakingEvent PlanningMarketingTeamworkPowerPointResearchSocial NetworkingMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft WordSpanishSalesCustomer ServiceSocial MediaMarket ResearchMarketing StrategySEOCompetitive AnalysisProblem SolvingMicrosoft PowerPoint
Notes
- Became a Cognition employee via the acquisition: his LinkedIn Windsurf role (Sep 2024 - Sep 2025) carries the description 'Windsurf acquired by Cognition.', and he moved into a Cognition account director role in Sep 2025.Sep 2025
- Current Cognition titles on LinkedIn are 'Majors Account Director' and 'Strategic Account Director' (both from Sep 2025), with the headline 'GTM at Cognition'.Sep 2025
- Joined Codeium (later Windsurf) as Strategic Account Executive in Sep 2024 out of Austin, and was named by Codeium GTM leader Graham Moreno among the new talent added in Q3 2024, the quarter Codeium announced its $150M Series C.Nov 7, 2024
- Current role is Strategic Account Director at Cognition.
- Cognition signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf (Windsurf's IP, product, trademark and brand, and team) in July 2025, after Google hired Windsurf's CEO and some R&D staff; Musa was part of the Windsurf GO-TO-market team that came over.Jul 14, 2025
- At Grafana Labs (Nov 2021 - Aug 2024) he rose from Enterprise Account Executive to Sr. Enterprise Account Executive in the US Central region, which Moreno said posted its 'largest quarter ever' in Q1 2023.May 1, 2023
- Grafana Labs solutions engineer Robert Vandervoort called Alex Maske and Tyler Musa 'two of the most conscientious sales reps in my career' in a March 2023 post on servant leadership in observability sales; Maske later also joined Cognition, so the pairing continued across companies.Mar 20, 2023
- Public headline says "GTM at Cognition".
- At Rapid7 he was an Account Executive (2019-2020) and then Team Lead, Central Sales (2020-2021), his first leadership role, in security software.Nov 2020
- Was on the radar of Grafana Labs Central sales leader Isaac Kim, whose 'Los Vaqueros' team (US Central/TOLA and LatAm) ranked #1 of 18 globally in new revenue in Q3 2022; Kim's post tagged Musa in the congratulations thread.Nov 1, 2022
- Spent 2017-2019 at Vrbo as Global Partnership Strategist then Sr. Global Partnership Strategist, a partner-facing role outside software sales before moving to Rapid7.2017
- Started his career at Bazaarvoice in Austin (2016-2017), progressing from Commercial SDR to Sr. Enterprise SDR to Jr. Enterprise Account Executive, Curations, within about a year.2016
Previous roleWindsurf (Codeium)
Experience
Majors Account Director at Cognition
Sep 2025 - Present
Austin, Texas, United States
Strategic Account Executive at Windsurf
Sep 2024 - Sep 2025
Austin, Texas, United States
Windsurf acquired by Cognition.
Sr. Enterprise Account Executive at Grafana Labs
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Austin, Texas, United States
Enterprise Account Executive at Grafana Labs
Nov 2021 - Nov 2023
Austin, Texas, United States
Team Lead, Central Sales at Rapid7
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Austin, Texas, United States
Account Executive at Rapid7
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Austin, Texas Area
Sr. Global Partnership Strategist at Vrbo
Jun 2018 - Jan 2019
Austin, Texas Area
Global Partnership Strategist at Vrbo
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Austin, Texas Area
Education
Grove City College
Jan 2011 - Jan 2016
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), International Business. Minor: Spanish.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
International Business
Grove City College
Jan 2011 - Dec 2016
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), International Business. Minor: Spanish.
Activities and Societies: Pan Sophic Fraternity, American Marketing Association, Relay for Life, Investment Society
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
International Business
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