Puvio
Senior Product Manager · ex-Amplitude · Brooklyn. Same résumé. She stopped Easy Apply and messaged people who own headcount.
Before Puvio
Maya Okonkwo left Amplitude in January on good terms and gave herself one rule: stay employed within a quarter. She is a Senior Product Manager with six years in B2B payments. Her LinkedIn was fine. Her résumé had shipped Radar-adjacent fraud work and a platform migration. None of that mattered when the only signal back was “Application submitted.”
For six weeks she ran the playbook everyone recommends. Sunday night, twenty tabs, Easy Apply until her wrist ached. She tracked counts in a spreadsheet because counts felt like control. Forty rows. Two polite nos. Thirty-eight companies that never used her name in a reply.
The roles she wanted — Stripe Payments Platform, Ramp treasury, Plaid core — were not hiding. She was arriving the same way as four hundred strangers: identical opener, no line that proved she read their last earnings call.
What changed
On March 1 she pasted eight postings into Puvio Hunter — one card each, no duplicate tabs. Fit score against her Mirror profile flagged twelve other roles she had queued as “maybes.” All under 55%. She archived them the same day.
On the eight that stayed she ran contacts per card. Hiring managers and eng directors surfaced ranked — not a CSV she built by hand. Alumni from Northwestern showed on two cards when the match was there.
She did not network her way into warmth. She read what Puvio pulled onto the card — product launches, blog posts, conference talks — and let the draft start there.
The six notes
Her old template lived in Apple Notes: “Hope you’re well… passionate about your mission…” She had sent variants of it forty times. It sounded like everyone else because it was everyone else.
Note to Stripe referenced embedded finance from company research on the card — not from a TechCrunch article she half remembered. She edited four words, sent Tuesday 9:14am. Reply Wednesday 4:02pm.
Ramp note cited their treasury launch. Plaid note tied platform PM scope to her Mirror line on API products. Six notes total. Three replies. Same résumé she used during Easy Apply month.
Result
By March 12 she had calls booked with two hiring managers and one VP Product who asked for her deck. She did not land every role. She stopped treating inbox silence as a résumé problem on pass one.
She still applies through portals when required. The difference is someone with budget has often read her name before the ATS row appears.
“Forty applications proved I was active. Six notes proved I did the reading.”
Maya’s résumé did not change. Her inbox did — because six people with budget read her name before row four hundred in the ATS.