[OPENING PARAGRAPH] I am writing with regards to the [ROLE TITLE] advertised on [LNKEDIN].
[PM INTRO] I am a product-led, customer-focused product manager with an extensive background as a software engineer. My career began as a front-end engineer, and since 2017 has been transitioning into product management and post-technical engineering leadership.
[ENG INTRO] I am a post-technical engineering leader with a passion for building product-led, customer-focused engineering teams. I value identifying customer challenges and solving them through elegant product solutions. I also relish the challenge of no-code solution testing, prototyping, and rapid development practices.
[BRANDS AND COMPANIES] During my career as an engineer and product leader I had the pleasure to collaborated with some of the worlds leading brands and companies, including; Spotify, Reebok, Sony, Tourism Queensland, Ticketek, and more.
[SCALING TEAMS] I have a proven track record of scaling high performance product and engineering teams, enabling resilient cultures, and managing large products as well as product portfolios. I also have experience in developing individuals, leaders and leaders of leaders.
[SCALING TEAMS] I have been working as a remote worker since 2010 and since 2016 I have been focused heavily on building remote teams and resilient remote work cultures. I have been heavily involved in setting up remote teams from scratch, including processes and practices, and I have managed complex remote human resource pools.
[CLOSING PARAGRAPH] I would love the opportunity to meet with [COMPANY] and discuss the [ROLE] position. Most importantly I’d be particularly excited to hear about the challenges this role will have the opportunity to solve.
Product and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience leading high performing, high value, product and engineering teams. Incredibly passionate about high trust and transparent cultures.
Proven track record of developing and maintaining efficient and high ownership remote collaboration cultures. With an emphases on lightweight yet resilient project delivery, a culture of ensuring commitments are well-understood and agreed by all parties, and team memmbers
**Product-led, customer-focused technical product leader with experience growing strong, capable and resilient product teams and cultures. Formerly CTO and GPM at Linktree, HoE at BlueChilli.
Proven track record of scaling high performance product and engineering teams, creating resilient delivery-focused team cultures, and managing large products as well as product portfolios. Demonstrable experience scaling engineering teams from <10 to 70+, organizational design, process implementation, change management, OKR design and implementation.**
CPO and CTO - September 2024 - Present
Fractional CPO - April 2024 - Present
Working as a fractional CTO and CPO while traveling on my Adult Gap Year.
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Chief Technology Officer - May 2020 - May 2021
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Frontend Engineering Lead - Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
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Co-Founder and Engineering Lead - Jun 2013 - Oct 2014
Frontend Engineering Lead - Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
Frontend Engineering Lead - Jul 2009 - Sep 2011