CPTO - Chief Product Technology Officer

About the opportunity

What You Will Do :

• 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:
  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.

• 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

• 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.

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.