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title: "Manager Data Scientist – AI – Talabat"
url: https://get9to5jobs.com/job/manager-data-scientist-ai-talabat-7/
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company: "Talabat"
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location: "Dubai"
employment_type: "full_time"
date_posted: 2026-10-01
valid_through: "2026-10-31"
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# Manager Data Scientist – AI – Talabat

This Manager, Data Scientist – AI role sits within Talabat, the leading on-demand food and q-commerce platform in the region and part of the Delivery Hero Group. The role combines hands-on data science leadership with people management, building and guiding models that power decisions across one of the busiest delivery platforms in the Middle East.

Expect the role to involve leading data science projects related to AI-driven features — likely spanning areas like demand forecasting, recommendation systems, delivery time estimation, or pricing optimization — while also managing and developing a team of data scientists. At manager level, the job is as much about setting technical direction and mentoring talent as it is about personal modeling work.

Because Talabat operates at genuine scale across food delivery and q-commerce (talabat mart), the data available is large and operationally rich, which means models built here have to be both technically sound and genuinely deployable in a live, high-volume production environment, not just accurate in a notebook.

It suits an experienced data scientist with proven people management skills who wants to apply machine learning to real, large-scale operational problems in a fast-moving q-commerce business.

## Requirements

- Strong background in data science and machine learning, with experience leading technical projects end to end

- Proven experience managing or mentoring a team of data scientists or analysts

- Experience deploying machine learning models into a live, high-volume production environment

- Strong understanding of how AI/ML models translate into measurable business impact in an operational context

- Proficiency in Python or similar languages, and standard machine learning frameworks and tools

- Experience working with large-scale, real-world operational datasets

- Strong stakeholder communication skills for translating technical work into business outcomes

## Suggested Resume Keywords

data science, machine learning, AI leadership, team management, Talabat, Delivery Hero, demand forecasting, model deployment, Python, q-commerce, data science management

## About Talabat

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