Prototype Designer - Cairo Egypt

<p><h4>About Al-Futtaim Group</h4> <p>Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions; automotive, financial services, real estate, retail and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.</p> <p>By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.</p> <h4>Overview of the role</h4> <p>The electrician is responsible for maintaining all electrical equipment on the shop floor. This includes assisting with store remodeling and catalogue launch plans in collaboration with the interior design group. The role involves scheduling and executing maintenance and repair tasks to ensure operational safety for employees and customers.</p> <h4>What you will do</h4> <ul> <li>Assist the interior designers during store remodeling or catalogue launch planning, providing expertise in electrical setups.</li> <li>Establish plans and lists of materials for work with the Com-In Department, ensuring deadlines are met.</li> <li>Liaise with the Com-in Manager to determine routine maintenance needs and formulate a work schedule including performance timelines and costs.</li> <li>Compile lists of necessary materials and equipment for projects and coordinate with the workshop coordinator for purchases.</li> <li>Set up, dismantle, and maintain store fixtures as well as assist in their repair and maintenance.</li> <li>Assist in furniture assembly for display purposes and repair damaged merchandise when necessary.</li> </ul> <h4>Required skills to be successful</h4> <ul> <li>Expertise in electrical installations and maintenance.</li> <li>Ability to multitask and manage multiple projects simultaneously.</li> <li>Strong customer focus with a proactive approach to improvement.</li> <li>Team player with individual accountability and leadership skills.</li> </ul> <h4>What qualifies you for the role</h4> <ul> <li>Higher school or trade school graduate.</li> <li>Three years of relevant electrical experience, preferably in a retail environment.</li> <li>Technical skills in finishing carpentry, woodwork, metalwork, painting, wall and floor coverings, and electrical installations.</li> <li>Proficiency in English and Arabic preferred.</li> </ul> <h4>About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate</h4> <p>The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region. From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.</p> <p>Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.</p> <p>AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.</p> <h4>About Al-Futtaim Malls</h4> <p>Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers.</p> <p>Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar and Zenata Mall, Morocco.</p> <p>Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall’s deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners.</p> <h4>About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies</h4> <p>Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.</p> <p>The engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, energy management, technology infrastructure and digital transformation.</p> <p>The technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium and small customers that include contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions and managed services.</p> <p>These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning and after-sales maintenance contracts.</p></p><p></p>

<section><p class="heading jdMain">Job Description</p><p class="heading">Roles &amp; Responsibilities</p><div class="paragraph"><p>As an AI Engineering Manager, you will lead the team behind Unifonic's marketing and personalization AI, building the intelligence that determines who to engage, through which channel, at what time, and with what message. You will own the development and delivery of AI capabilities spanning audience segmentation, propensity and churn prediction, next-best-action and channel recommendations, send-time optimization, campaign optimization, and generative AI for personalized content. These systems directly drive conversion, engagement, and customer retention for the brands we serve. This is a hands-on leadership role that combines people management with technical ownership. You will lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented AI engineers while actively contributing to architecture, technical design, code reviews, performance optimization, and proof-of-concept development. You will ensure the team delivers scalable, production-grade AI solutions, foster engineering excellence, and cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. Help us shape the future of communications by:</p><p>Serving as the technical owner on AI model design, architecture, and integration for marketing and personalization use cases across the Unifonic product ecosystem.</p><p>Owning the technical roadmap for personalization AI, recommendation and next-best-action engines, customer segmentation and propensity models, campaign and send-time optimization, and generative AI for content personalization.</p><p>Leading the evaluation, selection, and implementation of AI/ML frameworks, tools, and best practices, ensuring scalability, robustness, and maintainability.</p><p>Participating in hands-on coding, solution prototyping, and code reviews to maintain high-quality standards and guide the team through complex technical challenges.</p><p>Overseeing and refining the AI development lifecycle, including model training, validation, deployment, experimentation (A/B and uplift testing), and ongoing improvement.</p><p>Leading a team of AI engineers, providing mentorship, regular feedback, and career development support.</p><p>Defining clear performance expectations, conducting performance reviews, and identifying growth opportunities for team members.</p><p>Fostering a positive, inclusive, and high-performance team culture that encourages innovation, continuous learning, and collaboration.</p><p>Collaborating with recruitment and HR to identify, attract, and retain top AI engineering talent, ensuring the team s ongoing growth and success.</p><p>Working closely with the Director of AI Development, Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists, and other Engineering leaders to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps and actionable engineering plans.</p><p>Ensuring seamless integration of AI capabilities into existing and future products, partnering with platform, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to optimize deployment and operations.</p><p>Communicating technical topics effectively to non-technical stakeholders, making recommendations and reporting progress, risks, and opportunities.</p><p>Implementing and continuously improving the development processes, standards, and tools that drive efficiency, reliability, and scalability.</p><p>Ensuring adherence to best practices in model governance, performance monitoring, and compliance with relevant data privacy and security regulations, including regional data residency requirements.</p><p>Monitoring engineering metrics and KPIs, leveraging data-driven insights to improve development velocity, code quality, and team efficiency and connecting model performance to marketing outcomes such as conversion, engagement, and retention.</p><p><br></p></div></section><section><p class="heading">Desired Candidate Profile</p><p class="paragraph"></p><ul><li>Bachelor or master degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.</li><li>8+ years of software development experience with at least 3 years focused on AI/ML engineering and related technologies.</li><li>Demonstrated experience building and shipping marketing or personalization AI in production recommendation systems, customer segmentation, propensity/churn/LTV modeling, real-time decisioning, or campaign optimization with measurable impact on business KPIs.</li><li>Proven track record of leading, mentoring, or managing engineering teams, preferably in high-growth or innovative tech environments.</li><li>Hands-on experience with a range of AI/ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), advanced modeling techniques (NLP, LLMs and generative AI, recommendation and ranking systems), and production-grade model deployments.</li><li>Solid grounding in experimentation and measurement, A/B testing, uplift modeling, and evaluating model impact on conversion, engagement, retention, and ROAS.</li><li>Proficiency in Python, cloud platforms (e.g., OCI, AWS, GCP), CI/CD workflows, and modern software engineering practices.</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate teams and build productive cross-functional relationships.</li><li>A strategic and solution-oriented mindset, capable of balancing technical depth with big-picture thinking.</li><li>Experience with MarTech ecosystems, customer data platforms (CDPs), campaign orchestration, marketing automation, or CPaaS/omnichannel messaging platforms is preferred</li><li>Experience applying LLMs to marketing use cases, content generation, conversational commerce, or agentic customer journeys including fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), ideally within the Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, PEFT, tokenizers, and the model hub) is preferred</li><li>Exposure to Rust for performance-critical AI services, such as low-latency inference, real-time decisioning, or high-throughput data pipelines is preferred.</li><li>Arabic NLP experience or familiarity with the MENA market is preferred.</li><li>Experience scaling teams and systems in a high-growth SaaS environment is preferred.</li></ul><p>Craft &amp; Toolkit:</p><ul><li>Machine Learning &amp; Deep Learning</li><li>Generative AI &amp; LLMs</li><li>Recommendation Systems &amp; Personalization</li><li>Customer Segmentation, Propensity &amp; Churn Modeling</li><li>Python</li><li>TensorFlow / PyTorch</li><li>Hugging Face &amp; RAG</li><li>AWS / GCP / OCI</li><li>MLOps &amp; CI/CD</li><li>A/B Testing &amp; Model Evaluation</li><li>Software Architecture &amp; System Design</li><li>AI Engineering Leadership &amp; Team Management</li></ul><p>Character Traits:</p><ul><li>Analytical thinking and problem-solving approach problems clearly, use data, and find solutions.</li><li>Ownership and accountability take responsibility and follow projects through to completion.</li><li>Communication explain ideas clearly and listen to others across teams.</li><li>Collaboration work well with others and support team goals.</li><li>Adaptability and learning adjust to change and keep learning new skills or tools.</li><li>Mentorship and knowledge sharing help others grow and share what you know.</li><li>Resilience stay calm under pressure and handle setbacks constructively.</li><li>Quality and attention to detail do work carefully and strive for improvement.</li><li>Advocacy and innovation encourage best practices, efficiency, and new ideas</li></ul><p></p></section>