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title: "Manager Data Scientist – AI – Talabat"
url: https://get9to5jobs.com/job/manager-data-scientist-ai-talabat-9/
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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 MENA region since launching in Kuwait in 2004. The role is about applying data science and AI to problems that directly shape how talabat’s platform operates – things like demand forecasting, delivery time estimation, recommendation systems, and operational optimization across a platform serving millions of orders.

Day to day, this likely means leading data science initiatives from problem framing through to model development and deployment, managing or mentoring other data scientists on the team, working closely with product, engineering, and operations stakeholders to make sure AI solutions actually solve real business problems, and staying current with how the latest AI and machine learning approaches can be applied to talabat’s specific operational challenges. Because talabat operates at genuine scale across multiple MENA markets, the data available is large and the impact of getting models right is correspondingly significant.

This is a role for a data science leader who wants to combine technical depth with real business impact, at a platform where AI directly touches the customer and delivery experience millions of people rely on daily.

This suits an experienced data scientist ready to step into a management role, who wants to apply AI to genuinely high-stakes, high-scale operational problems.

## Requirements

- Advanced degree in data science, computer science, statistics, or a related quantitative field

- Significant experience in data science or machine learning roles, with demonstrated experience managing or mentoring other data scientists

- Strong technical skills in machine learning, including model development, deployment, and evaluation at scale

- Experience applying data science to operational problems such as demand forecasting, logistics optimization, or recommendation systems

- Strong stakeholder management skills for working with product, engineering, and operations teams

- Ability to translate complex technical work into clear business impact for non-technical stakeholders

- Comfort working with large-scale, real-world data across multiple markets

## Suggested Resume Keywords

data science, machine learning, AI leadership, demand forecasting, recommendation systems, model deployment, talabat, Delivery Hero, team management, operational AI, MENA q-commerce

## About Talabat

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