Your Work-life Opportunity
As the CPO of
Talabat, you will define the long-term strategic vision for the Middle East's leading
food delivery and Q-commerce platform, achieving close to
$10B in GMV in 2025. You will lead
an organization of 100 professionals across Product Management, Design, and Operations,
and 500 across engineering departments overseeing a product that delivers 2 million orders
daily across
8 countries.
We are looking for a visionary leader who can drive talabat toward a more innovative and agile
organization, building dedicated 0 to 1 product innovation labs to explore new business hubs
while scaling our core market leadership.
Job Description
What You Will Do :
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.
0-to-1 Innovation & Execution
- Institutionalize Disruption: You won't just launch features; you will build the Talabat
Labs engine, with dedicated resources to launch standalone verticals that could one day
rival our core food business.
- Design structures for speed, enabling rapid experimentation at scale and driving
decision-making in the face of uncertainty and constant evolution.
Executive Stewardship & Culture
- Global Impact: As the leader of Delivery Hero's largest entity, you will 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, ensuring all voices within the broader 500-person tech and
product organization have the potential to influence strategy.
- Communicate a positive vision, acting as a catalyst for organizational energy, leading
the changes that will shape our future
What We Are Looking For
Deep Marketplace Expertise
- Ecosystem Mastery: Deep understanding of the entire on-demand delivery,
Q-commerce, and fintech ecosystem.
- Data Skepticism: A mindset that goes beyond averages, challenging fundamental
business models and North Star metrics as the industry evolves.
- Structural Problem Solving: Ability to roll up your sleeves and engage at every level to
resolve large-scale structural changes and new technologies adaptation.
- Design thinker: A big passion for the customer and obsession for UX/UI
Strategic Leadership & Humility
- Productive Dissent: A commitment to promoting rigorous debate at the top to ensure
every strategic decision is stress-tested.
- Learning Mindset: A rejection of entitlement and an ego-free approach to challenging
your own opinions .
- Lean Operations: A commitment to operating with lean teams and taking decisions that
favor the business over individual or team interests.
Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience Required
- 15+ years of product leadership with experience in a global, product-first organization,
with a proven track record in a global marketplace or high-scale food tech company.
- Demonstrated Entrepreneurial Success, specifically the proven ability to build and scale
0 to 1 products within a large-scale corporate environment.
- Exceptional Leadership Depth, including extensive experience managing senior leaders
of leaders (M3 level) across multi-country footprints.
- Proven Technical Acumen, capable of partnering with engineering to drive the evolution
of machine learning and GenAI initiatives.
- Strategic Business Sense, with experience managing P&L and aligning product
roadmaps with aggressive revenue and growth targets.
