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title: "Applied AI Manager – Talabat"
url: https://get9to5jobs.com/job/applied-ai-manager-talabat-2/
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company: "Talabat"
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location: "Dubai"
employment_type: "full_time"
date_posted: 2026-10-16
valid_through: "2026-11-15"
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# Applied AI Manager – Talabat

This Applied AI Manager role sits within Talabat, the leading on-demand food and q-commerce app in the region since launching in Kuwait in 2004. The role is about applying AI practically to problems that actually move the business – things like demand forecasting, delivery time estimation, search and recommendation, or operational efficiency across a platform that handles enormous volumes of everyday deliveries.

Day to day, expect leading applied AI projects from problem definition through to production deployment, working closely with data science, engineering and product teams to make sure AI solutions actually solve the business problem they were built for, and managing the practical trade-offs between model sophistication, latency and reliability that matter enormously at Talabat’s scale. Applied AI work here is judged on whether it changes a real outcome – faster deliveries, better matching, lower operational cost – not just on model performance in isolation.

It suits someone with strong applied machine learning or AI experience who has shipped models into production before, is comfortable managing a team or cross-functional project, and understands that in a business like on-demand delivery, a model’s real-world robustness under messy, real operational data matters more than theoretical elegance.

Working on applied AI at Talabat means building solutions that run at genuinely large scale, across millions of everyday transactions throughout the region.

## Requirements

- Strong experience in applied machine learning or AI, with a track record of shipping models into production

- Experience leading or managing AI/ML projects, ideally with some people or project leadership responsibility

- Comfort working cross-functionally with data science, engineering and product teams

- Understanding of the practical trade-offs between model performance, latency and reliability at scale

- Experience with real-world, messy operational data rather than purely clean academic datasets

- Strong communication skills to translate AI capability into business impact for non-technical stakeholders

## Suggested Resume Keywords

applied AI, machine learning, AI deployment, demand forecasting, delivery optimization, data science leadership, production ML, q-commerce, Talabat, AI strategy, cross-functional leadership

## About Talabat

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