Product Director - Private Investments AI

About the role

Inception42, a G42 company, is looking for a hands-on Principal Product Manager (titled Product Director) with deep FinTech expertise to lead Alpha, its investment and credit AI product. The role owns strategy, roadmap and outcomes for institutional investors, lenders and financial analysts, and leads cross-functional teams spanning Design, Engineering, Science, domain experts and Growth. It is based in Abu Dhabi.

Key responsibilities

• Define Alpha's vision, target segments, differentiation and roadmap, and assess competitors and incumbent research tools.
• Work with analysts, portfolio managers and credit teams to understand workflows, buying criteria and adoption barriers, and turn recurring needs into reusable workflows.
• Own requirements for opportunity screening, company and sector research, due diligence, valuation support and investment committee materials.
• Develop credit workflows: financial statement, cash-flow and debt-service analysis, downside scenarios, credit memos, covenant review and portfolio monitoring.
• Define expected AI behaviour and acceptance criteria, with outputs in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and prioritise integrations with filings, transcripts, market and credit data and deal rooms.
• Translate user needs into AI requirements with Science and Engineering, including models, RAG, context, memory, tool use and agent orchestration.
• Ensure reliable extraction and reconciliation across documents and tables, make outputs traceable to source evidence, and set evaluation rubrics, test sets and release thresholds.
• Build in AI disclosure, permissions, audit trails and data residency, and define approved uses with customers' governance teams.
• Lead discovery through launch and iteration, own the business case and performance, and convert pilots into sustained production use.
• Align technical, financial and commercial stakeholders, communicate with investment and credit leaders, and mentor product managers.

Required profile

• 10+ years in product management or closely related roles, owning complex products at senior or principal level and launching and scaling financial technology.
• Knowledge of institutional investment and credit workflows, with experience building products for analysts, investment teams, lenders or risk professionals.
• Strong understanding of financial statements, valuation, leverage and credit risk, and ability to interrogate financial models.
• Experience delivering enterprise software with measurable adoption and commercial impact, and taking AI-powered products from concept to production.

Required skills

• Practical fluency in large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, context, memory, tool use and evaluations.
• Hands-on use of AI tools to prototype workflows and test model behaviour.
• Excel, SQL or comparable tools for investigating data and testing hypotheses.