WHO ARE WE?
Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.
We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.
Here at talabat, we are building a high performance culture through engaged workforce and growing talent density. We're all about keeping it real and making a difference. Our 6,000+ strong talabaty are on an awesome mission to spread positive vibes. We are proud to be a multi great place to work award winner.
ROLE SUMMARY
The talabat Product team plays a central role in the growth of our company, with our empowered Product teams working to create meaningful solutions that address important user, vendor, and business opportunities.
We’re looking for a customer-centric, self-starting, and creative Product Manager II to lead a squad within the Incentives domain. In this role, you will own and enhance key features and processes to optimize talabat’s incentives logic and experience while driving a product-led roadmap that delivers measurable impact.
This role requires strong data-driven decision-making, experimentation expertise, and proactive ownership. Collaborating with engineers, data scientists, designers, and stakeholders across Cairo and Dubai, you’ll ensure seamless alignment and require regular travel to Dubai.
Your responsibilities will include overseeing the product roadmap, managing a cross-functional team, and ensuring strategic alignment across teams. By leveraging insights, key performance metrics, and stakeholder collaboration, you will enhance user experiences, optimize incentive offerings, and deliver value to our users, vendors, and the platform.
WHAT'S ON YOUR PLATE?
As Product Manager II for the Incentives domain, you will:
Be part of a crucial team shaping talabat’s incentive strategy
Work within a cross-functional team of Product, Engineering, and Data
Build strong relationships with your team to supercharge your impact
Be driven to understand this opportunity space in great detail - who are the target customers (users and vendors), local contexts, business value, risks, opportunities, and technical challenges
Lead continuous product discovery for your squad
Develop and maintain a product-led roadmap, closely aligned with business stakeholders
Champion customer development and data analysis to find new opportunities and de-risk your bets
Work closely with the design and research teams to uncover opportunities and unmet user needs
Own the discovery process end-to-end and be the leading voice in your cross-functional teams
Rapidly ideate, prototype, and iterate on solutions
Enhance and roll out improvements to our incentive experience
Lead the prioritization of opportunities and solutions based on their impact on squad KPIs
Measure the success of enhancements and invest in the continuous improvement of the product
Be a problem-solver who does not hesitate to get hands-on to unblock your team and deliver quality solutions quickly
Work with stakeholders to grow your knowledge and supercharge your product efforts
Work closely with other teams to ensure incentive products are aligned with our end-to-end consumer experience and lifecycle
Work closely with other product teams to ensure incentive experience and exposure are aligned with our incentive vision and guiding principles
Own stakeholder communications for incentive products, presenting progress, insights, and strategies with clarity and impact
Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including commercial, marketing,, and operations teams, to design and launch go-to-market strategies for incentive initiatives
Foster a culture of innovation and ownership, encouraging teams to take initiative and pursue opportunities
WHAT DID WE ORDER?
You have successfully launched products to the market
Strong understanding of Agile product management and a solid grasp of the responsibilities of empowered product teams
Demonstrated fantastic verbal and written communication skills, easily engaging with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Able to communicate fluently with engineers and actively participate in technical discussions
Thrive in cross-functional teams and excel in a collaborative environment
Experienced in finding and defining solutions based on research, data, and insights
Top-notch project management skills, with hands-on experience using tools like Jira
Enjoy breaking down complex problems into manageable iterations
Confident in analyzing data sets to generate insights
Reliant on user and stakeholder feedback, as well as understanding available data, to set personal objectives
You can translate long-term product visions into simple, bite-sized iterations that deliver business value on an incremental basis
You are a leader, able to motivate your team to stay on course and help to remove obstacles to achieve your goals
You have demonstrated a record of success in inventing and launching successful features with limited supervision.
Experience in Food Delivery or a related field is a strong plus