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Jake Gandara

Builder, Marketer, & Operator

Oklahoma City, OK · jake@jakegandara.com · +1-918-577-8827 · LinkedIn · jakegandara.com · GitHub
Summary

I turn a clear outcome into a plan, reverse engineer the steps, and then build the systems that do the work. For eight years I've been inside digital businesses running paid acquisition, building products, designing marketing systems, leading operations, and shipping AI workflows that replace what used to take a team. If you need someone who can take full ownership of a revenue or automation objective and make it real, that is the job I do.

What I Bring
AI & Automation
Production pipelines, not demos. n8n, LLMs, APIs, and custom workflows that replace manual work at scale.
Paid Acquisition
$220K+ Meta ad spend managed. Direct-response creative, funnel build-out, and full-path revenue tracking.
Marketing Systems
Funnels, email sequences, affiliate programs, subscription backends, and the analytics layer on top of all of it.
Revenue & Sales
Built the full commercial stack: product, offer, acquisition, conversion, and retention. I understand the whole path.
Operations
SOPs, team building, and operational systems that scale without adding headcount or depending on any one person.
Product & Offers
Digital products, physical goods, subscriptions, and bundles, built, launched, and operated from zero.
Experience
Pulpit Engine
2026 – Present
Open-Source AI Automation Side Project
  • Building Pulpit Engine as a side passion project for local and small churches that want the output of a media team but cannot pay for one.
  • Designed and built the full pipeline: transcription via AssemblyAI, clip selection and caption writing via Claude, video rendering on Railway, automated posting via the Facebook Pages API.
  • Built practical automation systems using n8n, LLMs, FFmpeg, Submagic, Google Drive, SendGrid, and Slack, with human review before publishing.
  • Open-sourcing the architecture so smaller churches can self-host the workflow instead of paying for agency-style media support.
American Recipes Association
Sep 2024 – Apr 2026
Founder | Marketing, AI, & Operations
  • Built and operated a D2C subscription business end to end: product, acquisition, fulfillment, retention, and operations. No team, no agency, no outside help.
  • $738K+ in Shopify sales across 39,500+ orders. 699 active monthly subscribers at wind-down, representing $25K+ monthly recurring revenue.
  • Managed $220K+ in Meta ad spend: 6M impressions, 288K link clicks, 12,247 tracked purchases at an average $17.99 cost per purchase.
  • Built a multi-step ClickFunnels acquisition path: lead magnet, shipping offer, order bumps, OTOs, continuity subscription, and upsell flows, growing to 70K+ contacts.
  • Owned copy, creative strategy, funnel optimization, offer testing, email marketing, and day-to-day revenue operations from launch through wind-down.
JKW Enterprises / Patriot Publications
Feb 2018 – Sep 2024
Marketing Manager & Digital Marketing Specialist
  • Built the e-commerce department from scratch inside a $10M+ revenue digital publishing company, no blueprint, no team handed to me.
  • Designed and launched 500+ sales funnels for direct-response campaigns, product offers, and customer acquisition.
  • Forecasted and sourced $3M+ in products: coordinating suppliers, timelines, fulfillment, and campaign integration.
  • Recruited and supported affiliates who generated $2.5M+ in revenue since 2019.
  • Hired and trained 6 employees; built the SOPs, video trainings, and task systems that ran without me being in the loop on every decision.
By the Numbers
$738K+ Shopify revenue, one business
$220K+ Meta ad spend managed
$10M+ Revenue operation built inside
500+ Sales funnels built
$2.5M+ Affiliate revenue generated
70K+ Email/funnel contacts built
Skills
AI & Automation
Claude Code Codex ChatGPT n8n LLM Workflows AssemblyAI FFmpeg Railway Supabase
Marketing & Sales
Meta Ads ClickFunnels Direct Response Email Marketing Affiliate Programs Klaviyo
Commerce & Ops
Shopify Stripe SendGrid Facebook Pages API Google Drive Slack GitHub
Details
Location
Oklahoma City, OK. Remote-first.
Open to
AI Automation, Marketing Ops, Growth Marketing, Account Executive, Sales roles at technology companies.
Side Project
Pulpit Engine: open-source AI sermon-to-social automation for small churches.
Education
University of Central Oklahoma
BBA Marketing, Minor in Sales
2013 – 2017
UCO Sales Competition Winner, 2017
Four-time team captain, UCO football.