Product Manager

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

Compensation: MYR 12,000–20,000 per month + Equity

About Us

Ping is building the next generation of consumer agents that help people turn their interests into an edge. Whether it's finance, sports, shopping, or everyday trends, Ping transforms the topics people care about into personalized insights, helping anyone get up to speed, discover opportunities, and outthink the crowd. Backed by top-tier VCs, we're an early-stage startup building for the US consumer market, with global ambitions. We're moving fast and looking for builders who want to shape the next generation of consumer products.

About the Role

We're looking for a Product Manager who can build products from 0 to 1. Not a PM who writes a spec, hands it off, and waits — a PM who prototypes the idea, gets it in front of users, and ships it themselves when that's the fastest path.

Our stance: in 2026, implementation cost is close to zero for someone fluent with AI tools. A PM who can't turn the picture in their head into a working thing — end to end, without waiting on an engineer for every step — is leaving most of their leverage on the table. We don't want tickets and Figma handoffs. We want the person who already made the thing and is now asking users what they think of it. This doesn't mean you need a CS degree. It means you own the what and the why of the product, and you're technical enough to prove your ideas by building them.

What You'll Do

• Own product direction end to end — decide what to build and why, from insight to roadmap to shipped feature. You set the spec; nobody hands it to you.
• Build your own prototypes and ship real features using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, v0, Lovable, Replit, etc.). Some of what you make goes to production as-is; some becomes the reference the engineering team builds against. Either way, you don't need a translator between your idea and a working version of it.
• Make the hard product calls — flows, edge cases, tradeoffs, cut lines, polish. Decide what ships now, what waits, and what gets killed.
• Own metrics — define what success looks like before launch, instrument it, and read the results honestly. Follow up on what actually happened after a feature ships, not just that it shipped.
• Talk to users constantly and run your own research — interviews, surveys, session reviews, community lurking. Turn what you hear into concrete product decisions.
• Study the market relentlessly — what other consumer apps do well, what they miss, where the openings are. Pull ideas from outside the category and translate them into our product.
• Prioritize ruthlessly — a startup can do a handful of things well. Decide which handful, and defend the call.
• Work shoulder to shoulder with founders, engineers, and designers as an early team member shaping both product and company.

What We're Looking For

• 1+ years in product — as a PM, founder, product-minded engineer/designer, or someone who's shipped consumer products and owned the decisions behind them. Track record matters more than title.
• You build your own stuff. This is a hard requirement. You're fluent with AI-native tools and use them to go from idea to working prototype (and often to shipped feature) yourself. If your instinct when you have an idea is to write a ticket rather than open a tool and make it, this isn't the role. Show us things you've made from 0 to 1, vibe-coded is fine, as long as it's real and end-to-end.
• Technically fluent, without needing to be a career engineer. No CS degree required. But you understand how the product is built well enough to make good tradeoffs, scope realistically, work credibly with engineers, and get your hands dirty. Comfort reading and writing code with AI assistance, understanding APIs and data models, and reasoning about frontend/backend/iOS constraints is expected.
• Strong product thinking that goes beyond features. You can look at a whole product, evaluate the flow, spot gaps, and name what's missing or what could anchor the experience differently. You have real intuition for consumer psychology — why people share, why they come back, what makes a product feel alive — and turn it into decisions.
• Proactively learning, constantly. New models, tools, and workflows drop weekly and you're already trying them. You treat "figuring out how to do this better" as the job, not overhead — in dev, design, research, and how you work.
• Close to the consumer, especially US consumers. You use the apps we compete with. You understand the cultural context our users live in, what's trending, and how internet-native audiences behave. Building for or living in the US market is a strong plus.
• Creative, with taste. You have ideas nobody else on the team would have. You notice the small details — an interaction, a copy line, a visual moment — that make a product feel alive, and you can point to things you've made where the creativity is obvious.
• Ownership mindset. You decide, you build, you ship, you measure, and you follow up. You move fast in a startup without waiting for permission.

Nice to Have

• Shipped consumer social or AI-native products before
• Founded or built a startup, side project, or personal app that shows how you think and build — end-to-end and fleshed out, or a creative idea with genuine wow factor
• Comfort across the stack the team uses: React / TypeScript / Next.js, Node.js or Python, PostgreSQL / MongoDB. You don't have to be an expert — you have to be dangerous enough to prototype and prove ideas.
• iOS familiarity — SwiftUI, the App Store release process, and an eye for what makes an app feel native
• Fluency with data (SQL, analytics tools) to answer your own product questions instead of waiting on someone else