Head of Product

About Soar

Soar is a Saudi fintech startup based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, specializing in financing and investment. The company's mission is to support individuals in achieving their financial goals through innovative financial and property investment solutions. These solutions are delivered via a multi-purpose platform designed for a simple and seamless user experience, with plans for regional growth.

The Role: Head of Product

Soar is seeking a Head of Product to lead the development of an agentic-first platform within the real estate market. This full-time role involves transforming the company's vision into functional products, owning a core product area from discovery to launch and scale. The Head of Product will lead a team focused on building the first agentic products in a new category, emphasizing autonomous and semi-autonomous agents as the primary method for task execution, with human oversight for direction and judgment. This position requires over 10 years of experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and manage the product roadmap, translating the company’s vision and strategy into clear priorities.
• Drive product development from initial concept (0 to 1) through scaling (1 to n), iterating based on user feedback.
• Lead, hire, and coach product managers and designers, fostering a culture of speed, ownership, and quality.
• Engage directly with frontier models, agent frameworks, and emerging tooling, including prototyping, writing specifications and prompts, and conducting experiments.
• Make timely, informed decisions under uncertainty and take ownership of outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, data, go-to-market, and leadership teams to ensure effective product development and launch.
• Maintain a strong user focus by engaging with agents, brokers, buyers, sellers, and investors to translate market needs into product solutions.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Demonstrated experience in shipping products, including 0-to-1 work where problem definition was a key contribution.
• Ability to think from first principles, question established norms, and address problems without existing playbooks.
• Proficiency in applied AI, with experience in LLMs, agents, or leading teams working with applied AI in production.
• Strong execution focus, capable of translating strategy into shipped products, setting clear goals, and maintaining team velocity.
• Strategic and hands-on approach, able to shape strategy and delve into details such as prototypes, specifications, prompts, data, and metrics.
• Proven leadership skills in attracting and developing product managers and designers.
• Clear and urgent communication, prioritizing impact over process.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in fintech, marketplaces, agentic applications, or AI research and development.
• Startup or early-stage operational experience.
• A technical background or the ability to engage with engineers on agent architecture.
• A portfolio showcasing products, prototypes, or experiments.

Opportunity

This role offers significant ownership within the product leadership team, working closely with the CPO and other leaders to shape the product and team from the early stages. The market presents substantial opportunities for agentic AI, providing a chance to build products that can influence an entire industry.