Job description

The AI/ML Engineering Manager at Salla is responsible for leading a newly established AI product innovation team focused on delivering AI-powered products that maximize value for merchants. This role encompasses product discovery and strategy, execution and shipping, team building and leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. The manager identifies, scopes, and prioritizes AI product opportunities impacting merchant revenue, retention, or operational efficiency, develops rolling AI product roadmaps, defines success metrics, and decides to scale or terminate initiatives based on data. The role emphasizes shipping products rapidly on top of existing AI infrastructure, establishing rapid prototyping and validation cycles, and building a versatile team blending data science, engineering, and product thinking. The manager partners with AI, product, design, and business teams to translate AI capabilities into merchant outcomes while coordinating with ML platform and operations teams for infrastructure needs. The position requires hands-on technical expertise in LLM applications, recommendation systems, or ML-powered product features, experience in 0-to-1 product development, and proven ability to manage teams that shipped AI/ML-powered products used by real customers, with a focus on merchant outcomes, e-commerce, and marketplace contexts, optionally incorporating MENA market and Arabic-language AI experience.