Head of Product

Genius HRTech Services L.L.C - FZ - Dubai; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 1,850,000 - 2,350,000; Full time

Job summary

Prestigious Proptech/Fintech Business Group seeks a Head of Product for its Global Operations; reporting to the CEO. Build and lead a high‑performing Product organization, set the strategy and roadmap, and scale with AI to deliver measurable customer, commercial and operational value.

Requires 15+ years in product management with 5+ years in leadership, and a proven track record across Proptech and Fintech.

Qualifications

• Define product vision and translate into prioritized roadmaps at enterprise scale.
• Strong governance, prioritization and investment decision-making across multiple products.
• Excellent business case development and ROI thinking with clear ownership delineation.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve product vision, strategy and portfolio roadmap aligned to goals.
• Translate strategy into prioritized outcomes and investment priorities with finance.
• Set portfolio KPIs and ensure customer, commercial and operational performance.
• Advise executive leadership on opportunities, trends and risks; engage partners.
• Own integrated roadmap across products; govern prioritization and risks.
• Establish discovery, delivery and lifecycle governance standards.
• Chair roadmap reviews; resolve dependencies and make trade-off decisions.
• Track portfolio performance and budgets; drive corrective actions as needed.
• Lead, coach and develop the Product team with a high-performance culture.
• Build capability, succession planning and a decisive, outcome-focused mindset.
• Evolve Product operating model, governance and templates.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmap governance

Portfolio management

Executive alignment

Leadership

AI in product

Business cases

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, CS, business

Master's degree / MBA preferred

Product leadership certification preferred

15+ years in product management

Proptech/Fintech experience

Job description

One of the Prestigious Proptech/Fintech Business Group is searching for a Head of Product for their Global Operations

Position will be reporting to the CEO

Build and lead a high-performing Product organization that sets the standard for product leadership, and ensure the function scales with AI to deliver products that create measurable customer, commercial and operational value.

3. Key Accountabilities

• Own and continuously evolve product vision, strategy and portfolio roadmap, aligned to business goals, market opportunity and customer needs.
• Translate strategy into prioritized outcomes and investment priorities; hold the Product team accountable for building sound business cases and engaging Finance early.
• Set portfolio-level goals, KPIs and success metrics; hold the organization accountable for customer, commercial and operational performance.
• Advise executive leadership on product opportunities, trends and risks, and represent the Product function with clients, vendors and strategic partners.
• Own the integrated roadmap across products and platforms; govern prioritization, balancing customer value, business impact, dependencies, capacity and risk.
• Set the standards and operating principles for discovery, delivery and lifecycle management that the Product team executes against.
• Chair roadmap and portfolio reviews, resolve cross-functional dependencies and make transparent trade-off decisions.
• Track portfolio performance against agreed KPIs, drive corrective action where outcomes lag, and own approved product budgets and third-party product spend.
• Lead, coach and develop the Product team, setting a high bar for the function: PMs who own outcomes end-to-end, communicate crisply in writing, and take responsibility for winning plans rather than excuses.
• Build product management capability and a succession pipeline; instill a culture of decisiveness, written clarity and outcome accountability across the team.
• Establish and continuously evolve the Product operating model, governance, templates and ways of working.
• Foster a customer-centric, data-led, disciplined culture, anchored in consistent reporting and follow-through rather than firefighting.

AI & Future of the Function

• Define where and how AI reshapes product discovery, delivery and decision-making, and evolve team structure, roles and skills accordingly as the technology matures.
• Set the standard for AI-enabled product practices for the team to apply across the portfolio (evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop safeguards and build-vs-buy/vendor decisions).
• Maintain a strong working knowledge of AI capabilities and partner with Technology and data teams to distinguish genuine product and commercial value from hype.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, economics, marketing or a related field.
• Master's degree, MBA and/or a recognized product leadership certification is preferred.
• 15+ years' experience in product management, digital product development or a related field, including at least 6–8 years in a senior product leadership role.
• 5+ years’ experience working in Proptech and/or Fintech scaling companies
• Proven track record leading product organizations and enterprise-scale portfolios from strategy through value realization.

Knowledge & Skill Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to define product vision and strategy and translate them into prioritized, outcome-based roadmaps at enterprise scale.
• Strong portfolio governance, prioritization and investment decision-making across multiple products and platforms.
• Strong commercial acumen (business cases, value realization and ROI thinking etc.) with the judgment to know what to own directly versus delegate to PMs.