Product Manager - New Ventures
Posted date [2026-05-25]
(ID: 45656)
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Talabat is the MENA region’s leading on-demand delivery platform, headquartered in Dubai and operating across eight markets. We leverage a tech-driven flywheel model to connect millions of users with food, groceries, and essential services. By bridging the gap between people and local businesses, we continue to scale our ecosystem and simplify everyday life through innovation. |
Job Description and Requirements
Product Manager - New VenturesJob Snapshot
Role: Product Manager - New Ventures
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Internet
Function: Product Management
Experience: Minimum 5 years
Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Product Manager - New Ventures in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is an Internet industry opportunity focused on building new consumer products, launching new business models, and scaling 0 to 1 ventures across digital commerce categories. This role is designed for an experienced product manager who can move ideas from concept to launch, validate product-market fit, understand shopper behavior, and build customer-focused experiences across new categories inside a scaled regional platform.
The position offers high ownership across new venture development, product discovery, go-to-market planning, roadmap execution, AI-enabled product thinking, and cross-functional delivery with engineering, design, data, commercial, brand, and customer experience teams.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Internet
Function: Product Management
Salary: 25000-42000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Product Manager will join talabat’s New Ventures organization to shape the next generation of consumer products across emerging categories and business models. This role involves working on new opportunities that may not yet exist on the platform, where customer behavior, supply models, unit economics, competitive dynamics, and growth loops need to be understood quickly and tested with discipline.
This is a 0 to 1 product role with startup-style speed inside an established digital platform. The successful candidate will work directly with venture leaders and dedicated product, engineering, design, data, commercial, brand, and customer experience counterparts to build products that solve real shopper needs and support scalable business growth across MENA markets.
Key Responsibilities
Champion product features that solve real shopper needs across acquisition, discovery, conversion, retention, repeat behavior, and venture-specific customer journeys.
Build scalable product experiences that work across different shopper segments, supply conditions, commercial models, and MENA market contexts.
Work closely with product, engineering, data, design, research, commercial, marketing, brand, and customer experience teams to build and ship meaningful features.
Develop strong relationships across product squads to accelerate execution, improve decision quality, and maintain a high standard of collaboration.
Partner with design and research teams to uncover unmet shopper needs, validate customer problems, and identify product opportunities.
Collaborate with commercial, marketing, and brand teams to define go-to-market plans for new ventures, product launches, and growth initiatives.
Coordinate with other product teams to ensure each new venture aligns with talabat’s end-to-end customer lifecycle.
Lead product discovery from problem framing through research, data analysis, ideation, prototyping, testing, and solution validation.
Build deep understanding of the shopper for each venture, including what customers value, how they discover products, how they purchase, and what prevents repeat behavior.
Combine customer interviews, market insights, analytics, and stakeholder feedback to identify and de-risk high-potential opportunities.
Rapidly ideate, prototype, and test product solutions that improve core venture metrics and support faster learning.
Apply learnings from one venture to the next and help create a practical shared playbook for moving from 0 to 1.
Define and evolve product strategy while balancing customer experience, business impact, unit economics, and squad KPIs.
Prioritize problems and solutions based on customer needs, commercial value, growth potential, technical feasibility, and measurable impact.
Enhance and scale the core product experience through continuous iteration, experimentation, and structured delivery.
Own the roadmap for assigned venture initiatives and ensure alignment with strategic objectives, leadership expectations, and delivery capacity.
Use AI tools to prototype ideas, pressure-test concepts, improve execution speed, and support stronger product development workflows.
Keep teams unblocked through clear requirements, strong communication, practical planning, and disciplined stakeholder management.
Ideal Profile
The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience in digital product management.
Experience launching products to market is required, ideally including at least one 0 to 1 launch such as a new vertical, new marketplace, new business model, or new consumer product.
The candidate should be AI-fluent in both product building and product delivery, including the ability to prototype ideas, use shared context libraries, identify useful AI capabilities, and improve team AI literacy.
Strong curiosity across categories is important, with the ability to quickly understand new shoppers, supply dynamics, market conditions, competitors, and commercial economics.
The role requires comfort with business models and unit economics, not only product features. The candidate should be able to understand the loop that makes a venture work and the levers that can improve it.
The successful candidate should be comfortable operating in ambiguity, forming opinions with incomplete information, testing assumptions, and revising direction when evidence changes.
The candidate should be resilient when influencing partner teams without direct authority, including engineering platforms, commercial teams, brand stakeholders, and other product teams.
Strong understanding of Agile product management and empowered product team practices is required.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are important, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders and contribute confidently to discussions with engineers.
The role suits someone who can define solutions using research, data analysis, user feedback, stakeholder input, and clear prioritization.
Hands-on experience with Jira and structured product delivery tools is preferred.
Experience in e-commerce, marketplace, Q-commerce, fintech, content-led consumer products, discovery-heavy digital products, or venture building will be a strong advantage.
Skills Set
Product Management
New Ventures
0 to 1 Product Launch
Product-Market Fit
Digital Product Management
Marketplace Product Management
Q-Commerce
E-Commerce
Product Discovery
Product Strategy
Roadmap Ownership
Customer Research
Shopper Behavior Analysis
Data Analysis
Market Insights
Unit Economics
Business Model Development
Product Prototyping
AI Product Thinking
AI Prototyping
Agile Product Management
Jira
Go-To-Market Planning
Customer Journey Mapping
Stakeholder Management
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Product Experimentation
Problem Framing
Solution Validation
Retention Strategy
Growth Metrics
Technical Communication
Why Join Us
This role offers the opportunity to build new consumer ventures inside a scaled digital platform in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It gives product professionals the chance to work with a large built-in user base, test new categories, shape emerging business models, and drive products from early concept to measurable product-market fit.
As online delivery, Q-commerce, marketplace services, fintech, and content-driven consumer products continue to expand, product managers who can combine customer insight, AI-enabled execution, venture thinking, and strong commercial judgment are increasingly valuable. This position is ideal for candidates who want to build new digital businesses while working with the speed of a startup and the strength of an established regional platform.
About the Company
talabat is a leading on-demand food delivery and Q-commerce platform in the region. Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, the company has grown into a major everyday delivery app serving customers, restaurants, local shops, riders, and communities through convenient digital services, marketplace innovation, and regional operating expertise.
