CPTO - Chief Product Technology Officer

CPTO - Chief Product Technology Officer

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.

Job Description

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

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.