ArcLens
For experienced professionals

Finally, a résumé that gets you responses.

ArcLens builds a tailored résumé for every job — from your real experience, aimed at what the hiring manager actually wants. No templates. No keyword stuffing. A résumé that gets read.

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How the build works

It doesn't edit your résumé. It builds one for each job.

Give ArcLens the resumes you already have — once. For every posting after that, it scores them on keywords, altitude, and sentence style, picks your best starting point, and tailors from there. Built from sentences you actually wrote — so it can't sound like a robot.

You give it, once
Senior_Technical_PM.docx
aimed at PM seats
PMO_Gov_Director.docx
aimed at director seats
Portfolio_Mgmt.docx
aimed at portfolio seats
The resumes you already have, each aimed where you were aiming. That build is your corpus.
It picks your best starting point
Release management at scaleEstimation disciplineVendor coordination
Senior_Technical_PM.docxBEST START
right keywords, right altitude — your strongest sentences for this posting
PMO_Gov_Director.docx
governance story — one level up from what this job hires
Portfolio_Mgmt.docx
planning keywords — this posting buys delivery
Scored on keywords, altitude, and sentence style — against this posting.
…then tailors from there
EVAN MARSH · Senior IT Program Manager
Built the program office running releases for 400+ app teams
Established the estimating Center of Excellence (Gartner-noted)
Delivered 21 applications across 8 departments, $3.5M budget
Launched a security auth service — $1.5M saved in year one
Opening line re-aimed at release management — the job's first ask.
“Taught a 3-day estimation course…” sits out — this posting isn't hiring a trainer.
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What you get

Everything you'd want from a résumé tool.

A résumé rebuilt for the posting, every line yours to edit or cut — and it flags its own weak spots. Click a fix and it takes you straight to the line.

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Evan Marsh
Senior IT Program Manager
Austin, TX  ·  [email protected]  ·  linkedin.com/in/evanmarsh
Summary

Senior program manager with extensive expertise in project and program management across Agile, iterative, and waterfall delivery. A leader who collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to accomplish project objectives, and integrates analytics and data science into product roadmaps and delivery methodology.

Experience
Senior IT Program Manager · Westbrook Automotive Group2022 – Present
  • Created a program office to handle planning, scheduling, and communication between database administration and over 400 application teams. Manage 2 midrange patching deployments each month and 2 mainframe database upgrades a year.
  • Launched a security authorization service that saved $100K–$250K in development cost on each new application — $1.5M in the first year alone.
  • Managed delivery of 21 applications between enterprises, directing project managers across 8 departments with budgetary responsibility of $3.5M.
IT Program Manager, Estimation & Planning · Halvorsen Manufacturing2019 – 2022
  • Established IT Estimating Centers of Excellence by working across business lines to influence and effect change to achieve estimation goals.
  • Performed estimate-to-actuals analysis and maintained a historical database of project data to improve future estimates.
Fixed automatically
Replaced repeated opening verb · Westbrook
A second “Managed” now opens as “Launched.”
Needs your attention
Job duties, not impact · Westbrook · bullet 1
This is the job description — “handle planning, scheduling, and communication… manage 2 deployments a month.” The scale (400+ teams, a standing release cadence) is the impact; the wording files it as caretaking.
Suggested: Built the program office that runs database release management for 400+ application teams — planning, scheduling, and communication behind a standing cadence of 24 midrange deployments and 2 mainframe upgrades a year.
Nothing invented — the 400 teams and the cadence come from your bullet. The rewrite changes the altitude, not the facts.
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Ends where the outcome should start · Halvorsen · bullet 1
“…to influence and effect change to achieve estimation goals” — the sentence stops at the duty. What the Center of Excellence became is the story.
Suggested: Established the IT Estimating Center of Excellence recognized by Gartner as world-class — three global centers providing stage-gated estimates for every development project.
The Gartner recognition and the three centers come from your work history — pulled forward, not made up.
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But here's the thing

A perfect résumé won't win a job you were never going to get.

You can tailor every line and hit every keyword and still hear nothing. Most of the time, the résumé was never the problem — you were applying to jobs you don't line up with.

Other tools answer that with more. ArcLens answers it with fewer — and less effort.

Most other tools
Apply to more jobs
Polish and optimize every résumé
“You’re a great fit!” — always
Rewards inflation
Volume is their business
ArcLens
Apply to fewer, better jobs
Tells you which ones to skip
“This one isn’t worth it” — when it’s true
Scores only what you’ve actually done
Your time is the point

3 in 100 applications get a reply — and your résumé usually isn't the reason

What you actually need

An adult who'll tell you the truth about what you fit.

Before you write another résumé, ArcLens reads the job and tells you straight — what it really needs, where you line up, where you don't, and whether it's even worth your time. No flattery. No “great fit!” on everything. It's the honest read you'd get from a sharp advisor with no reason to blow smoke.

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The Job Read
Director, Revenue Operations · Helix Therapeutics
86
CLARITY
+56 clarity
What this job really is
A scale-up's first real RevOps owner — not a maintainer.
What's broken right now
Pipeline overstated 35–50%. Predecessor left after twelve months.
The one real question
Can you stand up the function from scratch — as the accountable owner?
3 buried signals surfaced1 red flag foundthe real brief, in plain terms

Toggle it yourself: the posting you saw, and the read underneath it.

See where you stand

It doesn't just say no. It shows you exactly where you stand.

Every gap named and sorted: what's a real dealbreaker, what a tailored résumé can fix, and what you can close by adding evidence — each with a plain next step.

REAL GAP

Genuinely missing experience. If most of your gaps read like this, it isn't your role — and ArcLens says so.

FinTech or financial services experience
Your career history shows IT leadership in hospitality, public sector, and automotive — but not direct experience in financial services or payments.
Can't be closed by a buildthis is genuine missing experience. If most gaps read like this, this isn't your role.
BUILD FIXES THIS

You have the capability; the résumé just needs to frame it in the language the job leads with.

Driving cross-functional delivery across engineering teams
Your career history shows exactly this — but framed as portfolio governance and stakeholder coordination, an altitude above the hands-on delivery vocabulary this posting leads with.
Fixed in a tailored buildyou have the capability; the build reframes your work in the posting's vocabulary.
ADD EVIDENCE

Close it by bringing in a role you haven't surfaced yet, then re-score.

Interpreting system designs, technical challenges, and tradeoffs
Your career history shows program and portfolio leadership across enterprise IT, but doesn't surface direct evidence of interpreting system designs or influencing low-level technical trade-offs.
Add evidenceexpand your career history with relevant examples, then re-score.

Three kinds of gap, three different moves — and the read tells you which is which.

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How it comes together

Read first. Build only for the jobs worth it.

ArcLens scores every job, tells you the truth, and keeps a short list of the ones you actually line up with. Then it builds the tailored résumé — for the handful worth it, not the dozens that were never going to call. Same callbacks, a fraction of the work.

Read
62
scored
Pursue
9
strong matches
Built
7
tailored résumés
Passed
25
work avoided

That's 25 résumés you never had to write — for jobs that were never going to call.

Inside the paid tool
Your Watchlist
3 active reads · sorted by Composite
RoleLensIndustryAltitudeBackgroundCompositeStatus
Director, Revenue Operations
Helix Therapeutics
Operator Pivot
8.8
8.4
8.2
8.6
Built
VP, Commercial Operations
Glide Path Therapeutics
Glide Path Role
7.8
7.6
7.4
7.3
Conditional
Head of Revenue Strategy
Nimbus Bio
Stretch Step-Up
6.4
5.8
6.2
6.0
Passed

Every job scored and sorted — the weak ones drop off the board.

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The Fit Read · paid

Then it reads you against the role — through every Lens you've set.

The score, the gaps a build can fix versus the ones it can't, and the one real question the role turns on.

The Fit Read · paid
Technical Program Manager
Blue Orbit · Van Horn, TX · On-site
5.6/10
PASS
Read throughCapstone Director ICCapstone Director — Delivery & GovernanceEXECUTION CREDIBILITY GAP
The Job Read
What this job really is
A senior TPM embedded in Blue Orbit's Operations organization, stitching together cross-functional initiatives across Integrated Supply Chain, Test Operations, Safety, and Mission Assurance. The role exists to prevent the misalignment — duplicate spend, missed deadlines, safety compromises — and translate high-level strategy into executable plans engineering teams can actually follow.
What's broken right now
The portfolio lacks a single throat to choke for cross-organizational initiatives, causing duplicate spend on overlapping vendor contracts. The org is flying blind on systemic risks — unprotected APIs, gaps in QA — because no one is proactively mapping failure modes before they become incidents.
What makes a safe hire
Someone who can walk into a room of engineers and business leaders and get everyone to agree on what 'done' looks like — without escalating every minor disagreement. Can turn vague organizational goals into concrete milestones and hold teams accountable without being the smartest person in the room.
Capstone Director IC · the read
The only real question
Can this candidate transition from portfolio governance in hospitality and public sector IT to hands-on technical program management for aerospace systems, with the execution credibility to own cross-functional delivery in a high-stakes engineering environment?
Where it may not fit
Lens emphasizes portfolio governance and financial stewardship, but the role requires hands-on TPM in an engineering-driven environment. Preference for 'fixing the process' may create friction where TPMs are expected to dive deep into system design and technical dependencies.
Career in hospitality, public sector, and automotive IT does not prepare for aerospace systems — safety-critical engineering, low-tolerance failure modes, or the physical constraints of a remote, high-stakes site.
What you must prove
Technical depth and system ownership
Show experience owning technical requirements and driving decisions in an engineering context — not just coordinating across teams.
"Walk us through a time you had to dive deep into a technical system to identify dependencies or risks. How did you use that knowledge to drive delivery?"
Execution credibility in engineering-driven environments
Provide examples of managing programs where engineering teams were the primary stakeholders, balancing governance with hands-on problem-solving.
"Describe a program you managed where engineering teams were your primary stakeholders. How did you deliver on time in a high-stakes environment?"
Alignment by dimension
Industry Fit3.0
Altitude6.0
Scope5.5
Risk5.0
Background5.5
Composite5.6
Specific Gaps
MISSINGNO EVIDENCE
Direct experience leading end-to-end program management for aerospace, defense, or safety-critical system delivery.
Career history shows governance and cross-functional coordination, but does not include examples of engineering-driven delivery in safety-critical environments. No evidence for this in your career history. If most gaps look like this, this isn't the right role.
WEAKNO EVIDENCE
Proven track record delivering results for large cross-functional initiatives in an engineering-driven environment.
Large-scale delivery experience exists, but framed around governance and compliance — not engineering execution. Your career history doesn't show these were engineering-driven environments.
What They're Actually Buying
PRIMARY
Technical depth sufficient to challenge engineering assumptions and diagnose systemic failure modes
PRIMARY
Experience shipping complex technical products in high-stakes environments where delays have severe consequences
context the posting won't give you
5.6/10 = fit through the Capstone Director IC Lens
the paid read — your experience matched against this job
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Your Watchlist

You read roles, decide, and move. Roles you pass on drop off your list.

You pass on what doesn't fit. Your list shrinks to what's actually worth your time.

Read
62
scored
Pursue
9
strong matches
Built
7
tailored résumés
Passed
25
work avoided
Inside the paid tool
Your Watchlist
3 active reads · sorted by Composite
RoleLensIndustryAltitudeBackgroundCompositeStatus
Director, Revenue Operations
Helix Therapeutics
Operator Pivot
8.8
8.4
8.2
8.6
Built
VP, Commercial Operations
Glide Path Therapeutics
Glide Path Role
7.8
7.6
7.4
7.3
Conditional
Head of Revenue Strategy
Nimbus Bio
Stretch Step-Up
6.4
5.8
6.2
6.0
Passed
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Not everyone is climbing.

Most hiring systems assume you want more — more title, more money, more responsibility, forever. That's not everyone's goal. A capstone role. A softer landing into the next chapter. ArcLens treats that as a real goal, not a step down, and judges jobs against it as honestly as it judges anything else.

Senior professionals deciding whether a role is actually a step up. Leaders exploring a move into something adjacent. Anyone tired of applying to jobs that were never going to fit.

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How this gets you closer to a job

You apply to fewer roles that fit.
You hear back from more.

ArcLens helps you spend that time on the 10–15 roles that actually fit — and write a résumé tuned to each one. The math gets better. Fewer applications. More phone calls.

1
Read

Paste a job posting. Get a clear read on what the role actually wants — and whether you'd be a fit.

2
Decide

Pursue, set aside, or pass. The roles that don't fit leave your queue. You stop spending time on them.

3
Apply

When you apply, your résumé is tuned to the specific role. Fewer applications. Higher response rate. Less burnout.

Stop applying to everything.

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Pricing

For job seekers who know what they want.

Pick the commitment level that matches your search.

Monthly
$49/ month
Billed monthly
Best for
  • Testing the engine on a few specific roles
  • Finishing a search that's already underway
  • When you want full flexibility to cancel
Annual
$29/ month
Billed $349 yearly
Save 41% vs monthly
Best for
  • An extended search or full career transition
  • Multiple target role types in play
  • A capstone-phase strategic move

Cancel anytime through your account. Access continues through the end of your billing period.

ArcLens runs on SignalArc, our decision engine — the read, the Lenses, the Watchlist, Tailored Resumes.

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Different in more than one way.

Not a résumé builder with a new coat of paint. A different tool that does a different job.

01

It reads the job, not you

Most tools start with your résumé. ArcLens starts with the posting — decoding what the role actually needs behind “strategic leader” and “drive transformation.”

02

It tells you to pass

No other tool will talk you out of applying. ArcLens will, when the fit isn’t there — and a confident pass is the whole point, not a failure.

03

Nothing invented

Résumé optimizers nudge you to exaggerate. ArcLens scores only what you’ve truly done — so what you send is something you can defend in the room.

04

One job, several Lenses

You’re not one candidate. Read the same posting as a stretch, a lateral, or a capstone move — and see which version of you the role actually wants.

05

Passing counts as progress

Roles you pass on leave your list. A running tally of work avoided turns restraint into momentum instead of FOMO.

06

Not everyone is climbing

Most systems assume you want more title, more money, forever. ArcLens judges a role against your goal — including a softer landing — as honestly as anything else.

From the builder

Most AI career tools are built to encourage you. ArcLens is built to level with you.

I built ArcLens while job searching full time. After running my own past applications through the scoring engine, I found more than a few roles I never should have touched — the fit was not there, but ChatGPT had been my optimistic partner. ArcLens reads the job description the way a trusted advisor would, without a stake in your hope, and makes it okay — even smart — to pass. This is not AI theatre. This is the honest read you deserved the first time.

— Lee Duncan
Founder, ArcLens