Mai Abdel-Qader

Product Strategy:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive product strategy aligned with company objectives and vision.
- Plan tasks, manage deliverables, and oversee the product lifecycle from concept to market launch.
- Clearly communicate the product strategy to all stakeholders.
- Introduce AI features selectively to enhance customer experiences and optimize business processes.
- Develop and track budgets, forecasts, and KPIs to measure product success.
- Monitor product sprints, evaluate results, and ensure iterative improvements.
- Drive innovation by leading initiatives and fostering a solution-oriented mindset.

Roadmap Planning:
- Own, design and communicate a detailed product roadmap tailored to business needs and customer requirements.
- Use data insights to prioritize features and enhancements, balancing short-term wins with long-term growth.

Customer Focus:
- Conduct in-depth market research, gather user feedback, and analyze customer data to inform decisions.
- Represent customer needs in decision-making, ensuring products address their challenges effectively.
- Stay ahead of competitive trends and anticipate changes in customer preferences.

Stakeholder Management:
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align product strategies with business goals.
- Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to coordinate product initiatives and increase adoption.
- Provide actionable insights to stakeholders through data-driven reports and visual tools.

Team Leadership:
- Foster a collaborative team culture that encourages creativity and accountability.
- Lead product managers and designers, helping them grow professionally.

Compliance Support:
- Actively support compliance with data protection and regulatory standards.
- Partner with the Compliance team to adapt products to evolving requirements and provide audit support.
- Promote a culture of ethical conduct, ensuring all practices align with regulations.

• Introduced AI-driven video assessment workflows to replace early-stage phone screening, improving evaluation
depth across both technical and soft-skill dimensions.
• Launched an AI-powered applicant ranking and fit scoring system aligned to job descriptions, reducing recruiter
screening effort by 70% and accelerating shortlist quality at scale.
• Delivered LLM-powered job recommendation and matching models, increasing application volume by 10%
while maintaining strong relevance and candidate-job alignment.
• Led a full job seeker onboarding transformation, reducing completion time by 30%, increasing onboarding
starts by 40%, and improving funnel completion by 10%.
• Established end-to-end behavioral analytics and automated reporting through Amplitude and Superset, enabling
real-time KPI visibility and eliminating manual reporting effort.
• Partner closely with executive leadership, Sales, Marketing, and Compliance to translate strategic priorities into
scalable AI roadmaps, commercial outcomes, and trusted governance.
• Owned end-to-end product execution across employer and job seeker journeys, balancing near-term delivery
with long-term platform scalability, monetization, and AI-driven innovation.
• Embedded structured product operating rhythms including roadmap reviews, KPI cadences, experimentation,
and cross-functional planning to systematically identify friction points and unlock sustainable growth
opportunities.
• Scaled and mentored a cross-functional organization of 30+ product, engineering, and design, building role
clarity, performance standards, and strong delivery accountability.

• Lead the software development methodology of Bayt’s CV search product. Follow the best practices for the database technologies, caching systems, and advanced search tools for scalability, responsiveness, and high availability.
• Supervise a quality assurance process, including integration and system testing.
• Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms, including application frameworks, data stores, and deployment stacks for delivering the products and services efficiently and successfully.
• Direct development and execution of a security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Bayt’s CV search.
• Collaborate with product owners, managers, and potential users or customers to keep the product meet the best web standards.
• Establish a specification conformance and testing regiment for the product based on user stories and the user experience design.
• Promulgate coding conventions and documentation standards.
• Establish and supervise the software development process, setting short-term objectives and assessing progress as defined by the software development methodology.
• Ensure that the team conducts code reviews and specification conformance testing as defined by the software development methodology.
• Review and approve the proposed development releases and manage the release process.
• In collaboration with the infrastructure team, monitor and review the application performance.
• Ensure product technical problems are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Supervise recruitment following the company hiring process and personnel policies.

• Led the modernization of Bayts core CV Search platform, delivering a 4× improvement in search-to-contact
conversion, measurable NPS gains, and improved meet-to-close performance.
• Transformed CV Search into an independent, API-first platform capability, enabling reuse across internal
products and unlocking new commercial upsell opportunities.
• Established regular API performance reviews and reliability benchmarks, ensuring consistent sub-2-second
response times and improving recruiter satisfaction with search performance.
• Led the Data Ontology team to build a unified taxonomy for job titles, majors, and educational institutions,
covering 99% of job titles and 70% of academic entities, enabling smarter matching and improved search
accuracy.
• Owned the security and compliance strategy for the CV Search platform, ensuring alignment with industry best
practices and robust data protection.
• Led a multidisciplinary engineering organization of 12 (7 software engineers, 4 QA engineers, and 1 data
analyst) responsible for Bayt.coms most business-critical CV Search platform.
• Drove adoption of modular microservices architecture to support independent evolution of search, matching,
and AI-enabled recruitment capabilities.

• Established a robust performance baseline for the website, providing critical insights into URL performance metrics essential for strategic decision-making.
• Analyzed and documented front-end and back-end bottlenecks, implementing targeted optimizations that significantly improved site performance and user experience.
• Explored and proposed innovative horizontal scalability solutions, including sharding and caching strategies, to enhance system efficiency and reliability.
• Conducted a comprehensive review of the Bayt database model, identifying and eliminating redundancies, which streamlined data management and improved overall system performance.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to align performance goals with business objectives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

• Identified and remediated all OWASP Top 10 risks across Bayt and Talentera platforms, significantly reducing
exposure to known exploits and improving overall platform security.
• Improved platform responsiveness through front-end rendering optimization, backend query tuning, and
scalable caching strategies across high-traffic workflows.
• Delivered major database performance gains through indexing enhancements and structural optimization of
core recruiter and job seeker journeys.
• Introduced ESI-based content caching, reducing server load and improving dynamic content delivery
performance.
• Defined and shared secure coding standards and performance tuning guidelines, staying current with emerging
security risks and mitigation techniques.
• Established performance baselines, analyzed front-end and back-end bottlenecks, and implemented
optimizations across databases, queries, and caching layers.
• Collaborated with engineering teams to drive continuous improvement in platform security, reliability, and
performance.

• Developed and deployed full-stack backend services and user-facing features across Bayt.com and Talentera
platforms using Yii and enterprise web frameworks.
• Partnered with Product, Infrastructure, and Marketing teams to deliver scalable solutions aligned with business
growth priorities and customer needs.
• Contributed to engineering excellence through design reviews, release planning, and maintainable development
standards across core platform services.

• Spearheaded the analysis of user needs and project requirements, driving alignment with strategic organizational objectives and ensuring timely project delivery.
• Assessed project implementation feasibility, adeptly managing constraints to maximize resource efficiency and minimize costs.
• Advocated for FDD design principles, significantly improving feature implementation quality and promoting best coding practices across teams.
• Fostered cross-functional collaboration with product managers, development teams, and QA, leveraging insights to enhance system architecture and streamline development processes.
• Mentored junior developers, cultivating a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence within the team.