Head of Institutional Product

Smart Bricks; Dubai; On-site; AED 450,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Bricks, a frontier AI lab, seeks a Head of Institutional Product to lead end-to-end product strategy for institutional capital markets. You will bridge AI/engineering work with institutions, defining direction, prioritising features, and delivering trusted solutions at scale.

You will collaborate closely with engineers and researchers to translate complex AI capabilities into clear, value-driven product surfaces, while owning outcomes and driving adoption across enterprise users.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading products for institutional, financial, or enterprise users in high-trust settings.
• Deep understanding of institutional capital workflows and how funds evaluate and transact at scale.
• Experience owning AI/ML-driven product surfaces, with focus on explainability and limitations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the institutional product end-to-end, setting direction and prioritising roadmap.
• Shape underwriting, evaluation, and transaction workflows with real deployment outcomes.
• Translate AI/ML capability into institutional-grade product surfaces that are explainable and trusted.
• Partner with institutional users to capture needs and feed them into the roadmap.
• Collaborate with engineering and research to reflect institutional requirements in the core system.
• Define and track metrics proving institutional value: adoption, capital deployed, retention.

Skills

Product leadership

Institutional workflows

AI/ML products

Strategy & roadmap

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership & accountability

Job description

Smart Bricks is a frontier AI lab building autonomous reasoning systems that allow capital to discover, evaluate, and transact real estate assets end-to-end. We are a team working on genuinely hard problems at the intersection of applied AI and one of the world's largest industries. Everything we build is live in production, consequential, and compounding in capability with every data point the system generates.

About the Role

As Head of Institutional Product at Smart Bricks, you will lead the product that institutional capital uses to discover, evaluate, and transact at scale. You will own the institutional product end-to-end, working at the boundary between our AI/engineering teams and the institutions that depend on our systems. You will set the direction, prioritise what matters, and turn frontier capability into products that institutions trust with consequential decisions.

What You Will Work On

• Leading the institutional product end-to-end - owning the strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation for how institutional capital discovers, evaluates, and transacts on our platform
• Evolving the institutional workflow - underwriting, evaluation, and transaction - validated against real deployment outcomes
• Translating our production AI capability - valuation, forecasting, scoring, agentic reasoning - into institutional-grade product surfaces that are explainable and trusted
• Partnering directly with institutional users to understand their workflows, surface needs, and feed them into the roadmap
• Working closely with engineering and research to shape what gets built and ensure institutional requirements are reflected in the core system
• Defining and tracking the metrics that prove institutional value - adoption, capital deployed, retention, and workflow impact

We Expect You To

• Have strong product leadership experience, ideally leading products for institutional, financial, or enterprise users in a high-trust, high-consequence setting
• Deeply understand institutional capital workflows - how funds, family offices, or asset managers evaluate and transact at scale
• Be comfortable owning a product surface that depends on AI/ML systems, and able to reason about model outputs, explainability, and limitations
• Translate complex technical capability into clear product strategy and user value
• Take full ownership of outcomes - you set the direction, make the calls, and are accountable for adoption and impact
• Communicate clearly across engineering, research, and external institutions - you work at the boundary between all three
• Move fast in a small, high-trust team without heavy process

Nice to Have

• Background in real estate, capital markets, private markets, or another large, data-intensive asset class
• Experience scaling products in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments
• Familiarity with AI/ML-driven products and the realities of building on top of live models
• Prior experience as an early product hire, operator, or leader in a high-growth environment

Why Smart Bricks

• Solve Hard Problems:Lead the institutional product for AI systems that are live in production - agentic orchestration, real-time inference, and retrieval systems operating at scale on proprietary data that doesn't exist anywhere else.
• Build What's Next:The product you lead here will shape how institutional capital interacts with one of the world's largest asset classes for decades.
• Ownership and Impact:Small team, no bureaucracy, high trust. Your decisions ship, your judgement matters, and your fingerprints are on everything institutional capital touches.
• Learn from the Best:Collaborate with world-class engineers, researchers, and operators who left careers at leading AI labs and financial institutions to build something genuinely new.