AI Product Strategist

You will work directly with the founder to build, ship, and iterate on PalUp's product at startup speed. This is not a traditional engineering role — you'll use AI coding tools

(Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as your primary development environment, shipping features in hours that used to take weeks. You'll own features end-to-end: from understanding the

merchant/buyer problem, to implementation, to self-testing on live stores, to deployment.

What You'll Do

• Build and iterate on production features across the full stack
• Use AI development tools to write, review, and ship code at 5-10x speed
• Think from both merchant and buyer perspectives — not just complete tickets, but shape the product
• Explore new verticals and prototype how our AI agent platform adapts to each domain

What We Look For

• You judge by results, not by process — you may not write every line of code, but you know instantly whether the product feels right, the UX is polished, and the output meets

professional standards

• You've used AI development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) and understand how to direct them to produce high-quality results efficiently
• You have sharp product instinct — you can switch perspectives on the fly depending on the scenario. Not just "think like a user" — you naturally see a problem from whatever

angle matters most in the moment

• You're genuinely curious about how things work — you dig until you understand, not because someone asked you to, but because you can't help it. That curiosity is what makes you a fast learner across any domain
• You're allergic to half-finished work — you verify the result yourself before anyone else sees it
• You move fast and communicate concisely — async updates, not lengthy status meetings

Nice to Have

• Experience with LLM applications (prompt engineering, RAG, agent architectures)