Thoughtworks is looking for a Lead Product Manager to serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, blending business strategy, design, and technology to create successful customer experiences. You will be responsible for driving commercial results and guiding clients in Riyadh, KSA, on their digital product journey.

What You'll Do

Cultivate meaningful relationships with client stakeholders, bridging technical and business worlds while developing a deep understanding of a client's strategy, structure and business model.
Drive the overall product development lifecycle and continuously deliver undeniable value to our clients.
Create the go-to-market strategy, ensuring operational readiness to support the product experience.
Build a shared product vision and roadmap and execute on it through collaboration with your product team and client stakeholders.
Frame and run rapid experiments to test new business ideas.
Define key metrics of success and use data to inform your decisions.
Track industry trends and the competitive landscape, undertake formative research, perform data analysis and generate insights to inform the product strategy and target market segment.
Own the product backlog while constantly evolving and prioritizing it based on user research, data and the latest changes in the market and the business.
Ensure ongoing buy-in and support from stakeholders and bring in external research to validate.
Contribute to the growth and impact of our evolving business by taking an active part in recruiting, community building, mentorship and driving best practices.
Act as an Engagement Lead, driving and managing a cross-functional team of 5-6 people to ensure seamless execution.
Leverage AI fluency to integrate artificial intelligence into the product development process and overall strategy.

What We're Looking For

A track record of delivering successful products to market.
Ability to work at both portfolio and product level — defining and executing a strategy, and shaping a vision and translating it into a roadmap with clear business and customer value-based measures of success.
Experience in user research and a deep understanding of design methods and processes.
Passion and perseverance for creating best-in-class software products which deliver an outstanding customer experience.
A good understanding of agile software development practices and product maintenance/support processes.
A desire to leverage data to improve understanding of user needs, product performance and value created for the customer.
Demonstrated experience building products from 0 to 1 and successfully scaling them in complex environments.
Comfort using AI tools as a core part of your daily product management and ideation process.
Enjoy collaborating with a multidisciplinary team to determine the best product-market fit, technical implementation and release schedule.
The ability to naturally cultivate effective collaboration between Thoughtworks and client teams by fostering open communication and advocating for shared outcomes.
A bias for action and the ability to break down complex problems into tangible steps that drive product development at speed.
Provide thought leadership, leveraging your extensive expertise to advise stakeholders, facilitate workshops, coach product teams, introduce best practices, identify roadblocks and generate solutions for resolving them quickly.
A knack for prioritization, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders and resolving conflicts as they arise.
An analytical mindset, knowing that your product must provide tangible business value and can gather the right requirements and market data analysis to support your work.
A right-brained approach; understanding the power of effective storytelling and can easily synthesize research insights into clear, impactful messaging.
Enjoy motivating committed, smart people to do the best work of their careers.
Exceptional stakeholder management and consulting skills with the ability to navigate senior client environments.
Deep understanding of Middle Eastern market dynamics, including local organizational behavior and consumer cultural nuances.
Willingness to travel to Riyadh, KSA, up to 50% of the time (typically two weeks per month).

Team & Environment

You will act as the Engagement Lead for a cross-functional team of 5-6 people. Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues, balancing autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. You'll have access to interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow.