Principal Product Manager

Role overview Senior product leader opportunity based in Riyadh to help establish a founding regional team supporting digital, AI, and economic transformation initiatives in a strategic Middle Eastern growth market. The role sits at the intersection of business strategy, human-centered design, and emerging technology, partnering directly with C-suite executives and entrepreneurial founders to convert ambitious visions into production-grade products. It is both an advisory and a hands-on leadership position focused on launching net-new products and scaling a local practice from an early stage.

Responsibilities - Advise C-suite and founder-level stakeholders on rapid, high-stakes builds, aligning workstreams and framing technical trade-offs around tangible business outcomes. - Drive end-to-end product lifecycle ownership, moving ideas past pilot stages into production systems that balance user desirability, technical feasibility, and economic viability. - Define market and competitive landscape, go-to-market strategy, and the business case or economic model for new digital and AI products. - Lead autonomous, cross-functional pods integrating product, design, engineering, and AI across discovery, research, and delivery. - Shape pre-sales and growth initiatives, including proposals, executive pitches, strategic discovery workshops, and organic account expansion. - Contribute to scaling local organizational capabilities, repeatable frameworks, and externally published points of view tailored to regional market needs.

Requirements - 8+ years of product leadership launching and commercializing digital products and platforms, including leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams. - End-to-end expertise taking net-new products to market, from discovery and value proposition framing through go-to-market and monetization. - Depth in market research, customer insights, and competitive intelligence to identify and validate growth opportunities. - Commercial acumen spanning pre-sales, engagement structuring, unit economics, and organic account expansion tied to ROI. - Experience operating at company, portfolio, and product levels, defining and executing strategy and roadmaps. - Comfortable working alongside lean, cross-functional pods and operating at pace in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Nice to have - A visible external presence through conference speaking, industry panels, or publications to build a practice's regional profile. - A builder mindset energized by helping stand up a new business from an early stage and reimagining the product lifecycle for an AI-enabled era.

Benefits and work setup - Day-one benefits package including private medical insurance, travel insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, life assurance, and a pension scheme. - 25 days of holiday, a personal development budget, and a commute-to-work scheme; details can be adjusted to match local regional norms. - Remote-friendly designation with a regional focus on KSA and the UAE, supporting a founding-team operating model. - Active commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with policies designed to make the workplace and broader industry more representative of the communities served.