Product Lead

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Summary: Seeking a visionary Product Leader to drive end-to-end product strategy, build and lead a high-performing team, and spearhead significant growth for a fast-growing consumer platform. Highlights: 1. Genuine ownership to build and shape the product function and team 2. Direct access to and support from the CEO on strategy and direction 3. Opportunity to lead growth for a regional platform with real scale Are you a product leader who has taken a consumer platform from early stage through a genuine growth phase, and want to own that whole journey again, this time from the top? Our client is a fast growing platform connecting youth across Bahrain and Saudi Arabia with the brands they discover and engage with daily, already serving over 500,000 users and 1,000\+ brand partners, with expansion into Qatar and Oman underway. Backed and scaling, they are building the infrastructure and the team to grow significantly over the next 12 to 24 months. This newly created VP Product seat reports directly to the CEO, because product needs to lead this growth, not follow it. This is not a role for someone who has only overseen product from the outside. You need to have personally built and scaled something yourself, and be ready to build a proper product organisation around you as the company grows. **What’s in it for you:** * Direct access to and support from the CEO on strategy and direction * Genuine ownership to build and shape the product function and team, not inherit an existing structure * A regional platform with real scale already, and clear expansion plans into new markets * Base salary BD 2,000 to 2,500 per month, plus ESOP **What you’ll be doing:** * Owning product strategy, roadmap, delivery and metrics end to end * Building and leading the product team, setting the standard for how it operates * Driving activation, retention and engagement as the core levers of growth * Working closely with the CTO and Operations lead on cross functional delivery * Representing the product function directly to the CEO and leadership **What we need:** * A track record of building and scaling a consumer product through a real growth phase, for example Series A through B and beyond * A genuinely data driven mindset, fluent in cohort analysis, activation funnels, retention curves and drop off diagnosis, able to speak in specifics not generalities * Experience building and personally leading a product team * Comfort operating with limited resource inside a startup environment * Strong Arabic language ability, and an understanding of, or real hunger to learn, Gulf youth consumer behaviour If you’ve built this journey before and want to lead it end to end this time, we’d like to hear from you.