CPTO - Chief Product Technology Officer

Company

Description:

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, 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.

• 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.

• Institutionalize disruption: 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.

• Global impact: 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.