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Builder, Marketer, & Operator.

I've spent eight years inside digital businesses, working across the full machine: acquisition, product, marketing systems, operations, and AI workflows. What I'm best at is reverse engineering the outcome, identifying what has to be true to get there, and building the systems that make it happen.

Contact See My Work
$738K+ Total sales built and operated
$220K+ Meta ad spend managed
699 Active subscribers at peak
500+ Sales funnels built
Actively looking for: Marketing operations & growth, AI automation, Sales, or AE roles at US-based tech / AI companies. Remote-first; open to OKC in-house / hybrid.
Work

What I've built

Three chapters. Each one more systems-intensive than the last.

Pulpit Engine
2026 – Present

AI-powered sermon-to-social pipeline for churches, fully automated from recording to published Reel.

Context
  • Churches produce weekly sermon content but have no staff or systems to repurpose it
  • Built from zero as a solo founder with no existing infrastructure
What I owned
  • AI Pipeline: transcription, clip selection, and caption writing end to end
  • Video Production: automated rendering, caption overlay, format conversion
  • Distribution: scheduled posting to Facebook Reels via Pages API
  • Infrastructure: TypeScript runner on Railway; autonomous overnight build system
Key Metrics
  • Zero manual steps from sermon upload to published Reel
  • First paying clients onboarded, 2026
  • Full pipeline running in production on Railway
Stack

n8n · Railway · AssemblyAI · Claude Skills · FFmpeg · Submagic · Facebook Pages API · SendGrid · Slack · TypeScript

See Work Samples →
American Recipes Association
September 2024 – May 2026

Built and operated a D2C subscription business end to end. Reached $738K in total sales and 699 active subscribers. Wound down in April 2026.

Context
  • Started with $0 revenue and no brand or infrastructure
  • Sole operator across every business function
What I owned
  • Acquisition: Meta Ads, creative testing, funnel architecture
  • Offer & Pricing: subscription design, upsells, pricing tests
  • Ops & Fulfillment: Shopify, Stripe, vendor relationships, order flow
  • Email & Retention: Klaviyo sequences, affiliate program, churn management
Key Metrics
  • $738,296 total Shopify sales
  • $220,290 Meta ad spend managed
  • 12,247 purchases at $17.99 CPA
  • 699 active monthly Stripe subscriptions at peak
  • $25,029 MRR at peak
Why it mattered

Proved I can build and run a full commercial machine solo, from acquisition through retention, at real scale.

Stack

Meta Ads · ClickFunnels · Shopify · Stripe · Klaviyo · affiliate networks

See Work Samples →
JKW Enterprises / Patriot Publications
February 2018 – September 2024

Joined as an early hire with no formal marketing background. Led and built out the digital marketing and e-commerce operation inside a $10M+ revenue publishing business over six years.

Context
  • No formal background; learned acquisition, product, and ops under real pressure
  • No digital infrastructure when I started; built it from scratch
What I owned
  • Acquisition: paid media, funnel architecture, direct-response creative
  • Product & Launch: sourcing, offer development, launch sequencing
  • Affiliate & Revenue: affiliate program buildout and management
  • Ops & Team: hiring, training, SOPs, day-to-day operations
Key Metrics
  • $10M+ revenue operation
  • 500+ direct-response funnels built
  • $2.5M+ affiliate-driven revenue
  • $3M+ products sourced and launched
  • 6 employees hired and trained
Stack

Meta Ads · ClickFunnels · Shopify · Stripe · Klaviyo · affiliate networks · custom reporting

What I Do

How I work

I start by getting crystal clear on the outcome, then I work backward into what has to be true to hit it. From there I design the systems, build the assets, and run the day-to-day until the result is predictable in the numbers. I'm comfortable owning the whole loop myself: strategy, implementation, troubleshooting, and iteration, instead of throwing ideas over the fence and hoping someone else executes.

Products and Offers

If you hire me, you get someone who can design an offer, build the system that sells it, and own the numbers. I've launched digital products, subscriptions, and physical bundles, with offer architecture and pricing that converted at scale.

Paid Acquisition

If you hire me, you get someone who has managed $220K+ in Meta spend and owned every variable from ad to purchase. Built the funnels, tested creative, drove 12,000+ purchases at $17.99 CPA.

Marketing Systems

If you hire me, you get a marketing operation, not a campaign. Funnels, email sequences, affiliate programs, subscription backends, and the analytics layer, all wired together and running without anyone in the middle.

AI and Automation

If you hire me, you get someone who builds production AI pipelines, not prototypes. Designed and shipped Pulpit Engine: sermon audio in, scheduled social content out, zero manual steps. TypeScript on Railway, Claude Skills for content, AssemblyAI for transcription.

Operations and Process

If you hire me, you get systems that scale without adding headcount. Built SOPs, training programs, and processes inside lean teams. Hired and managed 6 people and removed myself as the bottleneck on every function I owned.

Revenue and Growth

If you hire me, you get someone who understands how acquisition, conversion, retention, and revenue connect, and where the leverage is. Operated the full commercial stack from zero to $738K in sales and $25K MRR.

About

Who I am

Jake Gandara

I'm a full-stack operator who's owned acquisition, product, and ops inside lean, high-pressure digital businesses.

Eight years. No departments, no team to hand things off to. Just the outcome and whatever systems it took to get there.

Patterns across everything I've done:

  • No departments, just outcomes
  • Systems over heroics
  • AI + automation wherever possible

At JKW Enterprises I built the e-commerce and digital marketing operation inside a $10M+ publishing company: funnels, paid acquisition, product sourcing, affiliates, and team ops. At American Recipes Association I did it solo: $738K in sales, 699 subscribers, $25K MRR. Now I'm building Pulpit Engine, an AI automation product for churches.

Whoever brings me in gets someone who can take an objective and execute it end to end.

  • Location
    Oklahoma City, OK. Remote-first.
  • Currently building
    Pulpit Engine: AI sermon-to-social automation
  • Education
    BBA Marketing, University of Central Oklahoma. Minor in Sales. UCO Sales Competition winner, 2017.
  • Looking for
    Marketing operations & growth, AI automation, Sales, or AE roles at US-based tech / AI companies.
  • Open to
    Fully remote US roles. Open to in-house OKC or hybrid.
Tech Stack
AI
Claude Claude Code Claude Cowork ChatGPT AssemblyAI Midjourney ElevenLabs
Automation
n8n Railway Vercel Supabase GitHub SendGrid Slack Facebook Pages API
Marketing
Meta Ads Google Ads TikTok Ads Klaviyo ClickFunnels
Commerce
Shopify Stripe FFmpeg Adobe Premiere Pro
Contact

Let's talk

Actively looking for Marketing operations & growth, AI automation, Sales, or AE roles at US-based tech / AI companies.

8 years inside digital businesses. $738K in sales. 699 active subscribers at peak.

Email me with the role, company, and link to the JD. I reply within 24 hours on weekdays.

✉ jake@jakegandara.com in LinkedIn ⌥ GitHub @jakegandara ↓ Resume