Jack Pender

Closing deals in the final frontier.

Account Executive · San Francisco · @ClerkChat

Transmission Intercepted
"Coffee is for closers."
Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992
Jack Pender

PILOT

"Close it."
$1.5M ARR Closed as AE
166% Avg. Quota Attainment
80% Win Rate
Top 3 Largest AE Deals in Co. History

From first cold call to $1.5M ARR, under two years.

I'm Jack. Account Executive at Clerk Chat in San Francisco, where I sell AI-powered business messaging to companies in financial services, healthcare, insurance, and nonprofit.

I've always gone deeper than I needed to. Start pulling on one thread and end up somewhere I didn't plan, learning things I didn't know existed until I got there. You can't know what to ask for until you've gone far enough to find it. That same instinct follows me into every deal: keep going until I find the right answer, not just the acceptable one. Anything less doesn't sit right.

I came in as an SDR and moved into closing mid-market deals inside a year. Building pipeline, figuring out the ICP, developing messaging that stuck. None of it came from a playbook, and none of it happened alone. Early-stage startup work pulls you into every part of the business, and you come out understanding how a company actually gets built, how GTM comes together, what it takes to go from nothing to something real. The team around you in that environment shapes how you grow, and working alongside people who hold each other to a high standard teaches you things that go well beyond just selling.

MISSION LOG

Account Executive, Mid-Market · Clerk Chat

Jul 2025 – Present

Moved upmarket to MM. $820K ARR closed across Q2–Q4 2025, with win rate improving from 62% to 80%. Closed 3 of the largest deals in company history, scaling max deal size from $160K to $255K ACV ($780K TCV). $1.5M ARR closed since moving to AE.

Account Executive, SMB · Clerk Chat

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025

Full-cycle closing across healthcare, finance, and logistics. Hit 100%+ quota every quarter. Helped refine outbound strategy, pricing structure, and GTM messaging across multiple ICPs. Partnered with CS and product to support onboarding and surface upsell opportunities.

Sales Development Rep · Clerk Chat

May 2024 – Oct 2024

Promoted to AE in under 6 months. Owned outbound prospecting across healthcare, nonprofit, finance, logistics, and tech. Developed messaging that became the foundation of Clerk Chat's outbound playbook. Built early enterprise pipeline that converted to multi-threaded opportunities.

Marketing Intern · Polar Beverages

Jun 2023 – Oct 2023

Worked directly with the Director of Marketing on daily brand operations.

Salem State University

2020 – 2024

B.S. Business Administration, Magna Cum Laude. Marketing concentration, Economics minor. Dean's List. Silver Key Award. Won the 2023 Viking Business Pitch Competition.

TRANSMISSIONS

Updates, ideas, and signals from the field.

FEB 2026 TRANSMISSION 001

Site just launched. No manual, no roadmap. Same way I've started everything else worth doing. Some of the best things I've built happened because there wasn't a template for them yet. More transmissions incoming.

ARCHIVE

Things worth remembering.

Clerk Chat Outbound Motion

Early GTM · 2024

Developed the outbound messaging that became the foundation of Clerk Chat's initial playbook, starting as an SDR at 22 with no template to follow. Built early enterprise pipeline that converted to multi-threaded opportunities across healthcare, finance, and tech.

Viking Business Pitch Competition

1st Place · 2023

Won Salem State's annual pitch competition. Also helped lead the marketing and sales campaign for the following year's competition.

Polar Beverages

Marketing · 2023

First real taste of brand marketing, working directly with the Director on operations, campaigns, and day-to-day execution.

Salem State Peer Mentorship

Mentor · 2023–2024

Mentored incoming students through their first year. Turns out giving advice is something I don't hate.

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MISSION: SURVIVE 30 SECONDS

Asteroids inbound from all sides.
WASD or arrow keys to move. Click or space to fire.
5 lives. 30 seconds. Don't get hit.