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Job application cover note

Short cover note that gets past the ATS and lands an interview.

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Example output

Hi Sam,

I saw the Senior Product Engineer opening at Acme right after your launch of the new checkout flow. The post-launch retro you shared on the engineering blog hit several themes I've spent the last two years working through.

What caught me about the role specifically is the explicit focus on owning the whole funnel — most product-engineer roles I see talk about the surface but stop short of touching pricing and onboarding. Acme seems to actually mean it.

Most relevant: I led the checkout rewrite at Lattice — we cut p95 latency 40% and lifted free-to-paid conversion 6 percentage points in the quarter after rollout. Same problem space, similar scale.

I've attached my resume. Happy to walk through any of the above in a 20-minute chat — what works for you next week?

Best, Ashish

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