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CPTO - Chief Product Technology Officer

Company Description

Your work-life opportunity:

As the CPTO 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.

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