CPTO - Chief Product Technology Officer

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.

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 & 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.