Head of Product

Job Title: Head of Product
Reports To: CEO
Department: Product Department
Location: Abu Dhabi (Onsite, Full time)

Job Purpose

Own the product vision, strategy and portfolio direction, and translate business strategy into a prioritized, outcome-based roadmap. Build and lead a high-performing Product organization that sets the standard for product leadership, and ensure the function scales with AI to deliver products that create measurable customer, commercial and operational value.

Key Accountabilities

Product Vision & Strategy

• Own and continuously evolve the product vision, strategy and portfolio roadmap, aligned to business goals, market opportunity and customer needs.
• Translate strategy into prioritized outcomes and investment priorities; hold the Product team accountable for building sound business cases and engaging Finance early.
• Set portfolio-level goals, KPIs and success metrics; hold the organization accountable for customer, commercial and operational performance.
• Advise executive leadership on product opportunities, trends and risks, and represent the Product function with clients, vendors and strategic partners.

Portfolio Governance & Delivery

• Own the integrated roadmap across products and platforms; govern prioritization, balancing customer value, business impact, dependencies, capacity and risk.
• Set the standards and operating principles for discovery, delivery and lifecycle management that the Product team executes against.
• Chair roadmap and portfolio reviews, resolve cross-functional dependencies and make transparent trade-off decisions.
• Track portfolio performance against agreed KPIs, drive corrective action where outcomes lag, and own approved product budgets and third-party product spend.

Product Leadership & Talent

• Lead, coach and develop the Product team, setting a high bar for the function: PMs who own outcomes end-to-end, communicate crisply in writing, and take responsibility for winning plans rather than excuses.
• Build product management capability and a succession pipeline; instill a culture of decisiveness, written clarity and outcome accountability across the team.
• Establish and continuously evolve the Product operating model, governance, templates and ways of working.
• Foster a customer-centric, data-led, disciplined culture, anchored in consistent reporting and follow-through rather than firefighting.

AI & Future of the Function

• Define where and how AI reshapes product discovery, delivery and decision-making, and evolve team structure, roles and skills accordingly as the technology matures.
• Set the standard for AI-enabled product practices for the team to apply across the portfolio (evaluation frameworks, human-in-the-loop safeguards and build-vs-buy/vendor decisions).
• Maintain a strong working knowledge of AI capabilities and partner with Technology and data teams to distinguish genuine product and commercial value from hype.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Risk

• Build strong senior relationships across Technology, Finance, Marketing, Operations to align on priorities and business outcomes.
• Communicate roadmap decisions, progress and trade-offs clearly to executive, internal and external stakeholders.
• Identify and mitigate risks to product strategy, delivery, adoption, information security, privacy and third-party dependencies.

Qualifications, Experience & Skills

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business, economics, marketing or a related field.
• Master's degree, MBA and/or a recognized product leadership certification is preferred.

Minimum Experience

• 15+ years' experience in product management, digital product development or a related field, including at least 6–8 years in a senior product leadership role.
• 5+ years' experience working in Proptech and/or Fintech scaling companies.
• Proven track record leading product organizations and enterprise-scale portfolios from strategy through value realization.

Knowledge & Skill Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to define product vision and strategy and translate them into prioritized, outcome-based roadmaps at enterprise scale.
• Strong portfolio governance, prioritization and investment decision-making across multiple products and platforms.
• Strong commercial acumen (business cases, value realization and ROI thinking etc.) with the judgment to know what to own directly versus delegate to PMs.
• Proven leadership, coaching and organizational capability-building; a track record of raising the bar for a product team's performance and standards.
• AI-driven product leadership (strong working knowledge of AI, comfortable evaluating build-vs-buy, and adapting team structure and skills as the technology evolves).
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sound judgment under ambiguity; able to operate strategically while knowing when to engage in the detail.