Principal Product Manager

The role

You will act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and founder-level stakeholders to convert visions into market-ready products. You will lead multidisciplinary AI-first pods and drive business growth through consultative pre-sales and account expansion in the Middle East.

What you will do

• Partner with C-suite and founder-level stakeholders to manage complex expectations and technical trade-offs.
• Drive innovation across the full product lifecycle to deliver business ROI.
• Establish market landscape, go-to-market strategy, and business cases for client opportunities.
• Lead modern product development within autonomous, cross-functional pods integrating AI.
• Provide hands-on leadership within lean pods to drive high-impact outcomes.
• Lead large, complex programmes across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Lead growth initiatives through proposals, executive pitches, and strategic discovery workshops.
• Own and contribute to account growth targets and expand existing client relationships.
• Scale local organisational capabilities and author case studies and frameworks.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product leadership driving new product launches, commercialisation, and production-scale growth.
• End-to-end expertise launching net-new products to market.
• Depth in conducting research and leveraging market trends, customer insights, and competitive intelligence.
• Expertise in developing value propositions for digital and AI products.
• Deep commercial acumen spanning pre-sales, engagement structuring, unit economics, and monetisation.
• Proven ability to operate at company, portfolio, and product levels.
• Ability to advise clients on becoming a value-driven, customer-centric product organisation.
• Fluency in leveraging AI tools and platforms to transform the product development lifecycle.
• Skilled at operating and building relationships with C-suite executives.
• Experience with consultative selling and senior client leadership.
• Exceptional storytelling, negotiation, and workshop facilitation skills.
• A builder mindset with a strong inclination to work collaboratively alongside multidisciplinary teams.

Nice to have

• Passionate about being a visible external voice for the practice by speaking at conferences or contributing to industry panels or publications.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• Travel insurance
• Income protection
• Critical illness
• Life assurance
• Pension scheme
• Personal development budget
• 25 days holiday
• Ride2work scheme

About the company

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 28+ years, clients have trusted their autonomous teams to build solutions.