Relocate to Dubai Head of Product

Our client is a Dubai-based technology company operating in the fintech sector with an active footprint in Africa through its mobile money and payments operations in Guinea. The organisation is focused on delivering innovative digital financial solutions that enhance accessibility efficiency and financial inclusion across emerging markets.

Role Purpose

Own product strategy and delivery execution to drive adoption retention and monetization across fintech and B2B platforms ensuring the roadmap is tied to measurable business outcomes.

Job Type: Full Time

Workplace: Onsite

Requirements

• Strong product leadership experience; fintech/payments or B2B platforms strongly preferred.
• Strong discovery PRD writing prioritization stakeholder management.
• Solid understanding of unit economics funnel metrics experimentation.
• Experience working with engineering compliance and operations.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define product vision and roadmap aligned to growth retention monetization goals.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog based on customer value risk and ROI.
• Translate strategy into quarterly OKRs and release plans.

Customer & Market Discovery

• Run structured discovery: interviews merchant/agent field visits competitor benchmarking.
• Convert insights into PRDs prototypes and experiments (A/B testing where possible).

Delivery Management (with Engineering)

• Drive end-to-end execution: requirements design build QA launch iteration.
• Ensure acceptance criteria release notes rollout plans and training materials.
• Own product quality: usability performance stability incident learnings.

Analytics & Growth

• Establish measurement framework:
• Fintech: activation funnel txn frequency retained users agent productivity conversion.
• B2B: onboarding-to-first-order time reorder rate basket size cancellations SKU coverage.
• Partner with commercial teams on GTM onboarding playbooks promotions.

Risk & Compliance in Product

• Embed KYC/AML fraud checks permissions audit trails into product flows.
• Ensure data privacy and security-by-design with the tech team.

Success Metrics (1218 months)

• Improved activation and retention by cohort.
• Increased transaction frequency and reduced funnel drop-offs.
• Reduced time-to-first-order (B2B) and higher repeat order rate.
• Release predictability and quality (defect/incident/rollback rates).
• Roadmap execution tied to measurable ROI per major initiative.

Benefits

• Visa sponsorship
• Flights covered
• Spouse and children sponsorship included
• Health insurance included
• Additional benefits are company specific and open to discussion