Head of Product

Company Description Pakt is an AI-native hiring platform that helps companies recruit faster through AI-powered sourcing, candidate screening, interviews, assessments, and hiring automation. Its AI Recruiter, Scout, manages the process from job brief to qualified shortlist, combining structured AI interviews, skills and culture-fit evaluation, and human review. For teams managing hiring directly, Pakt offers a comprehensive AI-powered Applicant Tracking System (ATS) with tools for posting jobs, ranking candidates, managing pipelines, and collaborating across hiring teams. The platform also includes AI interviews, role-specific assessments, candidate verification, and recruitment automation to streamline both high-volume and specialist hiring. Pakt serves organizations hiring across sales, operations, support, engineering, technology, finance, leadership, and more, unifying sourcing, screening, interviewing, assessment, and verification in one solution.

Role Description The Head of Product will lead the product vision, strategy, and execution for Pakt's AI hiring platform, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs. This full-time, on-site role in Dubai, United Arab Emirates involves overseeing the product roadmap, defining requirements, and prioritizing features across the AI Recruiter, ATS, and related tools. The person in this role will collaborate closely with engineering, design, data, sales, and customer success teams to deliver impactful, user-centric products and enhancements. Day-to-day responsibilities include analyzing market trends, gathering and synthesizing user feedback, running experiments, tracking product performance, and iterating based on data-driven insights. The Head of Product will also mentor product managers, establish best practices in product discovery and delivery, and represent the product function with internal and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Strong product strategy and product management skills, including ownership of vision, roadmap, and end-to-end product lifecycle.
• Advanced analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data, define metrics, run experiments, and make evidence-based decisions.
• Excellent communication skills for cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder alignment, and clear product documentation and storytelling.
• Proficiency in market research, customer discovery, and competitive analysis to identify opportunities and guide positioning.
• Experience leading product teams in SaaS, AI, or recruitment technology is highly beneficial.
• Background in building B2B or enterprise platforms, ideally in talent acquisition, HR tech, or workflow automation.
• Demonstrated ability to work on-site in a fast-paced, collaborative environment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.