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Maya Lindqvist
maya.lindqvist@email.com
Denver, CO

11 September 2026

Ms. Elena Calloway
Head of Product
Harborlight Software
Denver, CO

Subject: Application for Product Manager, Billing Platform

Dear Ms. Calloway,

Over the last three years at Fernbrook Systems I turned a billing product with a 4.2% payment-failure rate into one with 1.1% — and I would like to do the same kind of work on Harborlight's billing platform, the role Priya Shah told me you were hiring for.

Your posting asks for someone who has owned a revenue-critical product end to end and can work comfortably with engineers on payments infrastructure. At Fernbrook I led the migration of 40,000 subscriptions to a new payments provider with zero unplanned downtime, and shipped a dunning redesign that recovered $1.8M in previously churned annual revenue. I ran the experimentation program myself — 22 A/B tests last year — and wrote the SQL behind most of the analyses.

Before Fernbrook I spent four years as an engineer, which is why handoffs between product and engineering rarely stall on my teams: I write specs the team can build from the first draft, and I know when a "small change" isn't.

Harborlight is the company I want to do this at because you sell to accountants — users who notice every billing error — and because your public changelog shows you ship weekly. That pace, on a product where correctness is the feature, is exactly the environment where I do my best work.

I am available with four weeks' notice and would welcome the chance to talk through how I would approach your billing roadmap.

Yours sincerely,
Maya Lindqvist

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