Product Manager Beauty

The role 

Were building talabat Beauty the first quick-commerce beauty destination in the Middle East. 

This is a 01 venture role inside talabats New Ventures product organization.
Youll be a core Product Manager on a small dedicated Beauty venture team shaping how millions of MENA shoppers discover evaluate and re-buy beauty: a category that behaves nothing like food or grocery delivery. Beauty is brand-led discovery-driven content-heavy with premium delivery expectations and high stakes on every first impression.

Youll work directly with the Beauty Venture Leader engineering design data commercial brand and CX counterparts dedicated to this vertical.

Why this role is rare:
Genuine 01 mandate inside a profitable scaled platform. Startup speed without startup risk.
A category with structural tailwind in MENA (beauty per-capita spend is among the highest globally) and no real quick-commerce competition yet.
A small founder-mode team where the PM shapes strategy not just executes someone elses roadmap.
Direct exposure to leadership across talabat and Delivery Hero with executive visibility from week one.

Whats on your plate 

• Champion features that solve real Beauty shopper needs: from discovery and re-purchase to brand-led browsing and a confidence-inspiring post-purchase experience.
• Build for scale - designing a product that works across diverse Beauty shopper segments and MENA-specific market contexts.
• Work within a cross-functional team of Product Engineering and Data to build and ship impactful features.
• Build strong trust-based relationships across your squad to accelerate execution and raise the quality of decisions.
• Collaborate closely with design and research to uncover unmet Beauty shopper needs and identify opportunities.
• Partner with commercial marketing and brand teams to define and launch go-to-market plans.
• Coordinate with other product teams to ensure talabat Beauty is aligned with our end-to-end customer lifecycle.
• Lead the discovery process for your squad - owning it end-to-end from problem framing to solution validation.
• Immerse yourself in understanding Beauty shoppers - who they are what they value how they discover and buy and what stands in their way.
• Combine customer interviews data analysis and market insights to find and de-risk opportunities.
• Rapidly ideate prototype and test solutions that help Beauty shoppers discover decide and re-buy with ease.
• Define and evolve the product strategy balancing customer love with business impact.
• Prioritise problems and solutions based on customer needs and impact on squad KPIs.
• Enhance and scale the core Beauty shopping experience through continuous iteration.
• Own the roadmap ensuring alignment with overall talabat Beauty strategy.
   

Qualifications :

What did we order 

• Youre an experienced Product Manager with at least 5 years in digital product management.
• You have successfully launched products to market ideally including at least one 01 launch (new vertical new business model or new marketplace).
• AI-fluent as a builder. You vibe-code prototypes to pressure-test ideas before engineering picks them up and you leverage shared context libraries to move faster.
• AI-fluent as a product thinker. You ship products with AI capabilities built in where it genuinely improves the experience and you actively raise the AI literacy of the people around you.
• Strong instinct for content merchandising and category navigation. You think like a category manager as much as a PM. Assortment hero products seasonality and shopper missions matter to you.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity. The strategy is set; the playbook is being written. Youll need to form opinions with incomplete data and revise them when evidence demands it.
• Resilient at influencing partner teams without authority: engineering platforms you dont own commercial teams with their own targets brand HQs with their own approval cycles.
• Strong understanding of Agile product management and a solid grasp of how empowered product teams operate.
• Demonstrated fantastic verbal and written communication skills. You easily engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders and can participate fluently in technical discussions with engineers.
• Experienced in defining solutions grounded in research and data. Confident running your own analysis and reliant on user and stakeholder feedback to set personal objectives.
• Strong execution discipline. You keep your team unblocked and your stakeholders informed without becoming the bottleneck. Hands-on with tools like Jira.
• Enjoy breaking down complex problems into manageable iterations.
• Experience in e-commerce marketplace q-commerce or a content/discovery-heavy consumer product is a strong plus. Beauty fashion or lifestyle category experience is a very strong plus.
   

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time