Salla E-Commerce Platform

AI/ML Engineering Manager

Salla E-Commerce Platform

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Makkah • Saudi Arabia

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About the role

  • 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
  • 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
  • Build and develop a versatile team that blends data science, engineering, and product thinking
  • Create a team culture of experimentation, merchant obsession, and fast iteration
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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)
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Hard Skills & Tools
AI product developmentML-powered productsLLM applicationsrecommendation systemsproduct developmentarchitectural designdata analysisprototypingvalidatione-commerce
Soft Skills
team managementproduct instinctcomfort with ambiguityexperimentationmerchant obsessionfast iterationcollaborationleadershipcommunicationstrategic thinking