Data Science Manager - Applied AI

The Applied AI Tribe is talabat's internal AI engine, a team obsessed with turning cutting-edge AI into genuine, measurable business value. We don't build AI for its own sake. Our north star is Net AI Value Delivered.

We have shipped 40+ AI products across four strategic streams:

• Product & Tech Platform - AI capabilities embedded into talabat's core product and engineering platform.
• Business Automations - streamlined workflows that save real time and money across operations.
• Self-Serve AI Tools - empowering talabatis to build and use AI without needing to raise a ticket.
• Training & Onboarding - upskilling the tribe so every team can participate in the AI era.

Our engineering approach is built around shipping agentic AI systems at scale, with a harness-first philosophy, evaluation embedded into every product iteration, and production feedback loops that drive the roadmap.

As Manager, Data Scientist - AI within the Applied AI Tribe, you will lead a team of data scientists building and shipping the ML and generative AI systems that power decisions across talabat's product and business. You are equally a people leader and a technical practitioner, close enough to the work to make great technical decisions and grow your team, while owning the roadmap and delivery.

Your team's work spans the full AI lifecycle: from framing ambiguous business problems through data modelling, feature engineering, model training, deployment, and production