Lead Product Manager

5 months ago

Dubai, United Arab Emirates Careem Full time

Careem is building the Everything App for the greater Middle East, making it easier than ever to move around, order food and groceries, manage payments, and more. Careem is led by a powerful purpose to simplify and improve the lives of people and build an awesome organisation that inspires. Since 2012, Careem has created earnings for over 2.5 million Captains, simplified the lives of over 50 million customers, and built a platform for the region’s best talent to thrive and for entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Careem operates in over 70 cities across 10 countries, from Morocco to Pakistan.

**About the Role**:
As a Lead Product Manager in the Search team, you will be leading and owning the Product vision and Strategy for Search at Careem, a key pillar of the overall user experience, Search is a key driver of transactions for all our services - rides, food, groceries etc, and building a relevant and personalised search experience would go a long way in improving customer engagement in retention. This role is a crucial Product Leadership role and requires experience in building search platforms, and scaling them across multiple use cases/product lines. The key purpose of the Lead Product Manager is to drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap as well as build and mentor a strong Product team.

This role requires a unique blend of product excellence, strategic / commercial thinking, technical acumen, distinctive communication and collaboration; including the ability to zoom out and see the big picture, but also the willingness and intellectual prowess to zoom in to the finer details that need to be addressed. Working across all areas of the company, you will serve as an internal/external liaison between leadership, function heads, engineering, design, operations, commercial, marketing and executive management. You will have tremendous ownership, and it is an invitation to do the most meaningful work of your career. This role would also require close collaboration with the commercial/sales teams for advertising, and thought leadership to help build a centralized search platform at Careem to be used by all verticals.

**Responsibilities**:

- **Product Areas**:Leading the product area for Careem’s Search platform, working closely with different consumers on building and delivering capabilities needed from search
- **Strategy & Vision**: Developing the strategy and vision for the evolution of search, working closely with the markets, different lines of business, product managers, data scientist, analytics, designers and engineers.
- **Roadmap**: Building and driving the roadmap and being accountable for the impact and outcome.
- **Collaboration**: Working closely with vertical teams to enable cross cutting experiences, as well as collaborating on innovation related to search to help accomplish some of the teams goals
- **Stakeholder Management**: Shielding the team and managing stakeholders, bringing stability and principled framework for decision making and prioritization.
- **Team Development**: Managing, growing, and mentoring the Platform product team members.
- **Culture of Impact and Shooting for the Moon**: Responsible for growing a best in class team, guided by first principles from science and economics, grounded by data, iterating fast with experimentation and compounding improvements, and constantly pushing the envelope through 10x ideas and pilots.

**Qualifications**:

- **5+ years of product management experience** in building and scaling search platforms
- Clear **evidence** of unlocking **crazy, product-led growth **in the** B2B/B2B2C space** e.g. **Marketplaces,** **e-commerce, quick commerce (food, grocery delivery), urban mobility, SuperApps, fin-tech **or similar
- **Platform mindset** — experience in building scalable and flexible solutions that enable a variety of use-cases
- Champion in **product management best practices** and working in **empowered product teams** that deliver great outcomes for customers
- You **facilitate thoughtful and constructive conversations** between members of your team, as well as with other members of leadership and senior executives
- Excellent **collaboration** and **influencing** skills
- **Impact driven** with **experimentation and simulation mindset**, with experience in common pitfalls and avoiding being fooled by randomness.
- **Proactiveness and c**larity **in unblocking and managing cross-vertical and cross-functional dependencies and communication.
- **Strong leadership and communication skills, critical thinking**, and **sound judgment**:

- **Drive and motivation**: You are motivated to make an impact, deliver results quickly, and raise the bar in the region’s ecosystem

**What we’ll provide you**

We offer colleagues the opportunity to drive impact in the region while they learn and grow. As a Careem colleague you will be able to:

- Work and learn from great minds by joining a community of inspiring colleagues.
- Put your passion to

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