Principal Product Manager

Company Overview and Market Context

Join a leading global technology consultancy as they expand their presence in the Middle East, specifically Saudi Arabia and the UAE. These regions are strategic growth markets propelled by visionary initiatives such as Vision 2030, focusing on AI, digital government, data, and economic transformation. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the market entry and growth trajectory in Riyadh.

Role Overview

You will be a foundational product leader in the region, instrumental in building teams, client relationships, offerings, and culture from the ground up. Leveraging global expertise in product, design, engineering, data, and AI, you will work closely with senior leadership and founders to convert visionary ideas into market-ready, scalable products and experiences, emphasizing rapid delivery and AI-first methodologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate directly with C-level executives and startup founders to guide complex, high-velocity product builds, managing stakeholder expectations and aligning technical trade-offs with clear business outcomes.
• Foster continuous innovation throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring ideas transcend pilot phases to become production solutions with measurable ROI by balancing user desirability, technical feasibility, and economic viability.
• Analyze market and competitive landscapes, define go-to-market strategies, and build compelling business cases and economic models for new client opportunities.
• Lead autonomous, cross-disciplinary product pods integrating AI at every stage—from discovery and research to AI-enabled delivery practices.
• Provide direct leadership to multidisciplinary lean teams to achieve high-impact results.
• Manage large-scale, complex programs involving multiple workstreams and stakeholders, overseeing strategy, roadmaps, scope, and deliverables from start to finish.
• Drive client growth initiatives: developing engagement strategies, authoring proposals, delivering executive presentations, and facilitating strategic workshops to establish trusted advisory roles.
• Contribute to expanding account revenues by identifying and capitalizing on opportunities to deepen engagement and unlock new business streams.
• Play a pivotal role in scaling local organizational capabilities, nurturing an inclusive culture, and creating thought leadership through case studies, frameworks, and regional adaptations of global technology insights.

Technical Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years leading product teams and managing new product launches, commercialization, and scaling of digital products and platforms.
• Comprehensive experience in end-to-end product launches – including discovery, value proposition definition, rapid cross-functional team leadership, go-to-market planning, and monetization to achieve product-market fit and scalability.
• Advanced skills in leveraging customer insights, market trends, and competitive analysis to guide strategic ideation and growth planning.
• Expertise in crafting value propositions for digital and AI-driven products, employing lean methodologies to test desirability, feasibility, and viability.
• Strong commercial acumen encompassing pre-sales, engagement design, unit economics, monetization strategies, and organic account growth linking innovation to business ROI.
• Demonstrated capability to operate strategically at company, portfolio, and product levels—defining vision, strategy, and actionable roadmaps with value-based success metrics.
• Capability to advise client organizations on adopting customer-centric, value-driven product practices and driving transformational change.
• Proficiency in employing AI tools and platforms to enhance the full product development lifecycle—accelerating market research, user discovery, prototyping, specification, automated testing, and analytics.

Professional Skills

• Experienced in engaging and influencing C-level stakeholders, confidently navigating conversations intersecting technology, product, business, and transformation.
• Consultative selling experience with senior client leadership, adept at diagnosing needs, co-creating tailored solutions, and nurturing long-term advisory relationships.
• Excellent storytelling, negotiation, and facilitation capabilities, enabling effective guidance of executive and entrepreneurial clients through complex, ambiguous projects.
• Motivated to serve as an external thought leader by participating in conferences, panels, and publications to enhance brand recognition regionally.
• A collaborative builder mindset, leading by example alongside multidisciplinary teams.
• A curious and open approach that welcomes challenges to conventional methods, committed to innovating product development for a faster, AI-empowered future.

Other Information

Working Model

This role follows a hybrid work arrangement with three days onsite each week in Riyadh.

Learning and Development

There are no fixed career paths; instead, your professional growth is supported through interactive tools, diverse development programs, and a collaborative culture focused on mutual empowerment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits start from day one, including private medical and travel insurance, income protection, critical illness coverage, life assurance, pension plans, personal development budgets, 25 days annual leave, and a ride-to-work scheme (adapted to local KSA standards).

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I)

The organization actively promotes diversity and inclusion, fostering a culture that reflects the communities served and nurturing innovative ideas via its award-winning environment.

Company Background

This is a 28+ year old global technology consultancy that blends strategy, design, and engineering to drive digital innovation. Their teams are diverse, interdisciplinary, and continuously learning from each other.

Join Opportunity

Joining at this stage offers the chance to work on cutting-edge AI, data, and digital transformation projects while building a regional business and culture in one of the world’s fastest evolving tech markets.