About
As the CPTO of the company, you will define the long-term strategic vision for the Middle East's leading food delivery and Q-commerce platform. You will lead an organization of approximately 100 professionals across Product Management, Design, and Operations, and around 500 across engineering departments, overseeing a product that delivers 2 million orders daily across 8 countries.
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What You Will Do:
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Strategic Vision & Growth
- Drive the product strategy for a $10B GMV ecosystem, shaping the right AI native approach to multi verticality.
- Define "moonshot" objectives that change the game, setting the agenda for strategic growth and long-term viability.
- Act as a growth catalyst, translating Board strategy into actionable priorities (OKRs/KPIs) and arbitrating resource conflicts to maximize impact.
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0-to-1 Innovation & Execution
- Institutionalize Disruption: Build the "the company Labs" engine, with dedicated resources to launch standalone verticals that could one day rival the core food business.
- Design structures for speed, enabling rapid experimentation at scale and driving decision-making in the face of uncertainty and constant evolution.
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Executive Stewardship & Culture
- Serve as a key voice in the global product council, exporting MENA’s innovations to markets in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
- Ensure psychological safety, allowing all voices within the broader 500-person tech and product organization to influence strategy.
- Communicate a positive vision, acting as a catalyst for organizational energy, and lead the changes that will shape our future.
Requirements
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Deep Marketplace Expertise
- Deep understanding of the entire on-demand delivery, Q-commerce, and fintech ecosystem.
- A mindset that challenges fundamental business models and North Star metrics as the industry evolves.
- Ability to engage at every level to resolve large-scale structural changes and new technology adaptation.
- A strong passion for the customer and obsession for UX/UI.
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Strategic Leadership & Humility
- Commitment to promoting rigorous debate at the top to ensure every strategic decision is stress-tested.
- A rejection of entitlement and an ego-free approach to challenging your own opinions.
- Commitment to operating with lean teams and making decisions that favor the business over individual or team interests.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of product leadership experience in a global, product-first organization.
- Demonstrated entrepreneurial success, specifically in building and scaling "0 to 1" products within a large-scale corporate environment.
- Extensive experience managing senior leaders across multi-country footprints.
- Proven technical acumen in partnering with engineering to drive the evolution of machine learning and GenAI initiatives.
- Experience managing P&L and aligning product roadmaps with aggressive revenue and growth targets.
Location
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
