Sr. Product Manager - Food

talabat; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food delivery service in Dubai is seeking a Product Lead to drive key initiatives for 2025. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team to enhance the consumer experience, manage go-to-market strategies, and leverage customer insights for product improvement. Ideal candidates are strong collaborators with a strategic mindset and problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to collaborate across functions.
• Experience with customer development and data analysis.
• Strong problem-solving skills and strategic thinking.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product strategy for a key consumer food flow.
• Work with cross-functional teams to improve the consumer experience.
• Manage go-to-market activities and stakeholder communication.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Strategic thinking

Adaptability

Communication

Job description

Job Description

In this role, you will lead Product on a critical part of our core consumer food flow. You will sit at the intersection of all sides of our marketplace, balancing the needs of each. You will be responsible for driving one of the company’s key bets for 2025, as well as exploring new opportunities to grow talabat this year and beyond.

You will work within an empowered Product-Engineering team to improve a vital stage of our consumer experience. Collaborating with Design, Data, and Engineering colleagues, you will discover, define, and deliver improvements, set product strategy, and manage go-to-market activities to achieve key company goals. You will also coordinate closely with other Consumer teams to ensure alignment across the end-to-end Consumer experience and lifecycle.

Your day-to-day activities

1. Be part of a crucial team working to improve a high-impact product within our consumer experience.
2. Collaborate within a cross-functional team of Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Product Analytics.
3. Build strong relationships with your team to maximize impact.
4. Develop a deep understanding of the product, target customers, local contexts, business value, risks, opportunities, technical challenges, and more.
5. Champion customer development and data analysis to identify new opportunities and mitigate risks.

Your bets

1. Work closely with design and research teams to uncover opportunities and unmet user needs.
2. Rapidly ideate, prototype, and iterate solutions with your team, building and rolling out new products.
3. Prioritize opportunities based on company KPIs.
4. Be a problem-solver, unblocking your team and delivering quality solutions swiftly.
5. Measure the success of launched products and invest in their continuous improvement, leveraging your experience with experimentation setup and analysis.
6. Collaborate with stakeholders to expand your knowledge and enhance product efforts.
7. Ensure alignment with other Consumer teams regarding the end-to-end experience and lifecycle.
8. Manage stakeholder communication, including working with global teams.
9. Work with internal stakeholders, commercial, and strategy teams to design and execute go-to-market strategies.
10. Be a self-starter and a good collaborator.
11. Prioritize your time independently, focusing on high-impact efforts first.
12. Take ownership and deliver on commitments.
13. Work effectively across global colleagues to make meaningful contributions.

Qualifications

Your qualities

• Pace-setter: you make things happen, unblocking others when needed.
• Experience first: prioritizing customer and colleague experience, using expert slicing of features to move quickly without degrading experience.
• Strong collaborator: working well with colleagues from various functions to find growth opportunities and unblock teams.
• Adaptability and resilience: thriving in change and bouncing back from setbacks with new learnings.
• Accountability & drive: owning your work and pushing for results.
• Growth mindset: seeking feedback and embracing challenges.
• Strategic thinker: understanding the bigger picture beyond your role.
• Quick learner: acquiring new skills rapidly and learning from experience.
• Good communicator: effective with colleagues across all levels, from senior leaders to team members.
• Self-organizer: prioritizing tasks and managing time to focus on key priorities.