PostHog Cover Letter

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Executive Summary

tl;dr I’m a product obsessive that finds great pleasure in finding things out¹ and enthusiastically sharing that knowledge². My car license plate says “scrapi”³. My sales approach is a gardener teaching other to garden: nurturing relationships over time, not passively fishing or hunting for quick kills.

Recent PostHog Contribution

I created this pull request on GitHub. @joethreepwood said, “This looks great!” @rafaeelaudibert and @Zaltsman reacted with ❤️.

The PR added a dynamic URL to the LinkedIn button on the /academy page. It now pre-fills the certification form to post on LinkedIn. By doing this, user satisfaction ascends and shareholder value increases!

I told the world about my Post-it note Certification to boost my chance of getting hired by 20%.

Why PostHog

A few other tidbits about me and my interest in working at PostHog as a TAE/TAM:

I want to join PostHog because I can help it grow and want to be in a more technical role. Technical AND Sales. por que no los dos?
Salary expectations are aligned. While I’m in interviewing with others, this is my uber duper first preference.
I’ve managed sales teams from $4M-11M revenue. Increasing their income was my greatest accomplishment.
Leadership is learned in the hot seat. I developed a stakeholder simulation for NYU Stern’s MBA program that mirrors the cross-functional dynamics a PostHog TAE/AM will navigate with their customers.
Prior workplaces said I stood out for the wrong reasons⁴. It’s draining. PostHog feels like a place where I can finally stand tall without the mask.
It’s freeing to know that most people are trying to figure it out too.
My personal site, humaine.studio is built with Jekyll, GitHub Pages, Markdown, HTML/CSS/JS so I could better learn Git. PostHog web analytics is installed.
gilfoyle-tech-reviewer is the Claude agent I created to practice #vibecoding. GitHub.
I built this…sorta. In response, Gilfoyle said I’m a “dilettante with systems instincts”.

I’m currently reading The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman. ↩
A previous life (see resume) had me traveling to Canali’s factory in Milan to learn the 200 steps it takes to make their suits. ↩
My graduate school study group was called the “scrappy mallards” and vanity license plates are HUGE in the state of Virginia. ↩
Imagine being the exclamation mark in Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s book. ↩