Product Manager - Beauty

Overview

Job Description

Why This Role Is Rare

• Genuine 0→1 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 else's roadmap.
• Direct exposure to leadership across talabat and Delivery Hero, with executive visibility from week one.
• What's 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?
• You're 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 0→1 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. You'll need to form opinions with incomplete data and revise them when evidence demands it.
• Resilient at influencing partner teams without authority: engineering platforms you don't 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.