Technical Account Executive, Clerk
+ Stock options
Authentication and user management
Job no longer available
Authentication and user management
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To solve user management once and for all.
Role
Who you are
- You have a users-first mindset, and keep their needs at the forefront of everything you do
- You have a passion for driving growth and helping the team achieve shared targets
- You have technical depth, able to dive into APIs, developer workflows, and modern web stacks without needing to hand off
- Have an extensive background working in a similar customer-facing role (e.g. sales, solutions, or partnerships)
- You’re energized by managing a pipeline of opportunities and turning them into long-term partnerships
- You enjoy being a trusted advisor, balancing technical credibility with a sharp focus on business outcomes
- Thrive in a cross-functional, collaborative environment
What the job involves
- It’s an exciting time for Clerk, coming off a year of record user growth and product launches that further our vision of making authentication and user management intuitive and enjoyable
- Technical Account Executives at Clerk help customers integrate and build on our platform — from developers integrating authentication into their app for the first time, to popular technology companies building complex identity and access management systems
- This is not a traditional “AE + SE” pairing
- You’ll be both the technical and commercial owner for your accounts: guiding customers through onboarding, unblocking them technically, handling pricing and contracts, and ensuring long-term growth
- Own a set of high-potential accounts, ensuring successful launch, adoption, and ongoing expansion
- Qualify and prioritize inbound opportunities, while experimenting with selective outbound in high-value segments
- Lead discovery and demos with external audiences of all kinds — from engineer to CXO — to understand business objectives and translate requirements into solutions
- Oversee onboarding in collaboration with field-facing teams, ensuring customers enjoy amazing user management experiences
- Contribute to the team’s revenue and retention goals by building trusted relationships and increasing customer lifetime value
- Spend some time analyzing our processes and instigating changes to help scale our user operations
- Surface customer insights to product and engineering, ensuring the roadmap reflects real-world needs
Our take
Authentication is only part of the story when it comes to user management. Developers using API tools also face the complex UI and management issues of additional features like user sign-up, sign-in, and session management, to name a few. Clerk was founded to make this simpler, reducing hours of work to minutes using pre-built React components.
Clerk stands out in a market dominated by the likes of Auth0 and OneSpan with its focus on React rather than API. This taps into a growing number of developers working with Jamstack rather than trying to wrestle customers away from market incumbents - a smart move which has seen its userbase swell by five times, growing to over a million developers.
This rapid growth has attracted investors, and Clerk closed a Series B round in 2024. This funding is being used to expand the company's services into authorisation - determining a user's permissions as opposed to simply identifying them. As account security and management will continue to be a major focus for developers going forward, Clerk is well positioned to grow into a major player in this space, especially as it continues to expand its product range.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Oct 2025
$50m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $109m
Company benefits
- Competitive salary: We want you to know that we value the skills you bring to the table, so we go out of our way to make sure you’re fairly compensated.
- Equity ownership: At Clerk, we believe in shared success, which is why we offer a stock option plan that everyone stands to benefit from as we grow.
- Health coverage: We care about your well-being, so we offer top-tier health insurance to ensure your health needs are met. (US-based employees)
- Work equipment: We’ll make sure you have everything you need to set up your ideal home office with the gear of your choice.
- Flexible vacation policy: We're believers in work-life balance and trust you to take the time you need with our unlimited vacation policy.
- Remote and diverse team: We're committed to fostering an inclusive environment where you can do the best work of your life with a global, fully-remote team.
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Colin Sidoti
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Clerk in 2019, Colin was an Independent Consultant for nearly 8 years. He also spent 1 year at We-Care.com as a Web Developer.
Braden Sidoti
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Member of the South Park Commons. He was also an iOS Engineering Manager at Inspirato and an iOS Developer at hostess.fm and Fuzz Productions.
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