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Experience
2 - 7 Years
Job Location
Education
Bachelor of Technology/Engineering
Nationality
Any Nationality
Gender
Not Mentioned
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Product Discovery & Strategy
Identify, scope, and prioritize AI product opportunities that directly impact merchant
revenue, retention, or operational efficiency
Develop a rolling roadmap of AI-powered experiences validated against merchant
needs, market dynamics, and business impact
Define success metrics for each initiative and kill or scale projects based on data, not
momentum
Execution & Shipping
Ship your first product within the first quarter we value velocity and learning over
perfection
Build on top of existing AI infrastructure across the department your job is to create
products, not rebuild engines
Establish a rapid prototyping and validation cadence: concept prototype merchant
pilot scale or kill
Team Building & Leadership
Build and develop a versatile team that blends data science, engineering, and product
thinking
Operate as a peer to other technical leads across the AI department while maintaining a
collaborative, non-competitive dynamic
Create a team culture of experimentation, merchant obsession, and fast iteration
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner across the AI department to leverage generative AI capabilities,
recommendation signals, and platform infrastructure for new product surfaces
Work closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to ensure AI experiences
translate into merchant outcomes
Coordinate with ML platform and operations teams for infrastructure needs without
building parallel systems
Desired Candidate Profile
Must Haves:
- 5+ years in engineering or ML roles, with at least 2 years managing a team that shipped
- AI/ML-powered products (not just models or infrastructure products used by real customers)
- Track record of 0-to-1 product development: you ve taken something from concept to production and measured its impact
- Strong product instinct you can identify what to build, not just how to build it. You think in terms of merchant outcomes, not technical capabilities
- Hands-on technical depth in at least one of: LLM applications, recommendation systems, or ML-powered product features. You don t need to write every line of code, but you need to make sound architectural calls and earn your team s technical respect
- Comfort with ambiguity you ll define the roadmap, not inherit one
- Experience working in or building for e-commerce, marketplace, or merchant-facing
Strong Preference:
- Experience with MENA markets, Arabic-language AI products, or regional commerce patterns (seasonal dynamics, WhatsApp commerce, social selling)
- Background at a high-growth technology company where you operated with startup speed and increasing scale
- Familiarity with multi-agent architectures or AI agent platforms
- Arabic language proficiency (business-level or native)
Company Industry
- Internet
- E-commerce
- Dotcom
Department / Functional Area
- IT Software
Keywords
- AI/ML Engineering Manager
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Salla
Salla is the leading commerce platform in the GCC, built in Saudi Arabia to support businesses and entrepreneurs across every stage of growth. We provide the tools, services, and ecosystem merchants need to build stores, run operations, and reach customers with confidence. Our AI department is building the intelligence layer that transforms how merchants create, manage, and grow their online businesses with AI products designed from the ground up.
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