Entrepreneur in Residence (Management)
Content + Source + Freshness • 12 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong opportunity for growth within an emerging tech-driven startup environment.
- Experience in a rapid-growth Y Combinator-backed startup
- Significant learning opportunities across business domains
- International work environment with diverse teams
- High-pressure role may challenge some candidates
Pros
- Direct involvement in startup with significant growth potential
- End-to-end responsibilities across various business aspects
- Opportunity to work with a diverse, international team
Cons
- High-pressure environment may not suit everyone
- Workload can be demanding, especially in fast-paced market
- Not suitable for candidates seeking structured corporate roles
Who it's for
Entry to Mid-level • In-person (Malaysia)
Good fit
- Young, ambitious professionals keen on entrepreneurship
- Candidates looking to grow within a tech-driven environment
- Individuals who thrive in dynamic teamwork settings
Not recommended for
- Those preferring traditional corporate roles
- Candidates who seek clear job definitions and stability
- Individuals uncomfortable in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
About Pop Meals (formerly dahmakan)
Pop is building Asia’s leading food brands through a network of cloud kitchens and tech-enabled QSR outlets. Funded with over $28m by Y Combinator and leading tech investors from Silicon Valley, Europe and Asia, we are expanding rapidly across Asia.
Entrepreneur in Residence
You always had an entrepreneurial-drive and want to build a high growth tech startup together with some of the brightest minds in technology and food?
The EiR Program is designed for the smartest and most ambitious students from undergraduates to MBA students (or drop-outs). You will become member of a Y Combinator backed team with the same responsibilities and expectation as any full time team member. You will join our tech, product, growth or operations team and take on significant responsibility to create big impact on the development of Pop Meals . We will throw you into ice cold water with high expectations on you. You will quickly learn how to swim and learn within weeks what others learn in years.
In order to master the steep learning curve and keep up with the pace, you will have to step out of your comfort zone, work hard and stretch every skill that you have.
This experience will equip you with the necessary skills to launch your own startup afterwards or join Pop Meals full time.
Requirements
- Ambitious and hungry: you are either a top student from a top university with high GPA and won awards/scholarships or you have early work experience in high pressure environments such as growth startups (preferably funded from well-know investors), investment banks, consultancy, venture capital, oil rigs... you get the idea! you have run your own startup or entrepreneurial projects or you are the captain of a winning sports team/ president of an organisation or similar evidence or ambition and success
- Pressure resistant and adaptable to fast pace
- Resourceful in overcoming obstacles and rejection
- Naturally curious and thirsty to learn
Why should you join us?
- Work in a Y Combinator startup (over $30m in VC funding), with top talents from Stanford, Harvard, Google, Uber, Hellofresh, DeliveryHero, Rocket Internet etc.
- Opportunity to get hands on work experience in Southeast Asia - the fastest growing internet region globally according to Google
- Exposure to a very international working environment, a total of 16 nationalities from 5 continents work together here in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Work alongside peer's from top university's globally and young entrepreneurs who have run their own startups
- Significant responsibility and opportunity to learn all aspects of the business (operations, marketing & growth, finance & fundraising, business development, engineering)
- We empower you (and expect from you) to have massive impact on Pop Meals
- Full time offers will be made to top performers of every EiR batch who are keen to join Pop Meals in the longterm
