Fahd Badran
Product Builder

Tech builder with 10+ years of experience in product management and strategy consulting with a solid track record of results. I have led the development, launch and commercial success of major products for key e-commerce and fintech apps in the region. On the side, I enjoy building web apps with AI. So far, I've learned tools for Authentication, Storage & Databases, AI Workflows & Agents, Content Generation, Data Processing & APIs, Infrastructure & Deployment. I also love playing chess, and am always up for a game.

Physicist at heart, Product Manager by experience. I like building cool products with strong teams.

Career Highlights

Stake Core Experience

Led the Core Product Experience for the region's biggest real estate investing platform from Series A to B. Launched marquee products that achieved +53% conversion, 9x funding rate, -24% time to convert, 5% reinvestment rate, -50% support inquiries, and massive reductions in manual work for the Ops team.

Careem Box

Creator of Careem Box, the region's favourite on-demand courier product, and Careem's first profitable product. Achieved its most successful year in company history with +250% revenue, +6pp reliability, -9pp complaints, +9pp conversion.

Careem's Safest Ride

Cut Careem's safety incidents by 25% and imposters by 50%, making Careem the safest ride in town.

ARAMCO Sadara Readiness

Achieved 100% enterprise readiness for a $20B chemical plant for ARAMCO Sadara in KSA, leading 40 chemists and administrators from the world's second largest company and Accenture's biggest client.

$40M Mondelez Takeout

Reduced annual people costs by $40M for Fortune-500 Mondelez on a rapid cost reduction engagement across EMEA.

Professional Experience

Stake logo

May 2024 — Jan 2026

UAE

Senior Product Manager, Core Experience

Stake

Owned product strategy and roadmap for the Core Experience of the region's biggest real estate investment platform. Built the full post-investment experience, from onboarding to financial returns to the post-investment experience. Improving investor clarity, liquidity, and reinvestment. Launched three market-defining products: Fix n' Flip (+53% conversion, 9x funding rate, -24% time to convert), Portfolio Exits (5% reinvestment rate, -80% ops manual work), and Rent Experience (-50% support inquiries, +4% reinvestment rate), among many others.

Careem logo
Careem logo

Aug 2018 — Mar 2024

UAE, Jordan, KSA

Senior Product Manager

Careem

Led two flagship products at the MENA region's super-app: Box Delivery and Trust & Safety.

Box Delivery

Built Careem's fit-for-purpose Box product, making it the company's first profitable product. Drove +250% revenue growth by shipping a suite of high-impact features including Shareable Order Tracking, Contact Sharing, Courier Categories, and 'Order Anything' Vehicle Type Selector, validated through rigorous A/B testing. Delivered +6pp reliability, +9pp conversion, and -9pp complaints in parallel, working cross-functionally across engineering, marketing, and customer care. Launched the product in UAE, Jordan, and KSA.

Trust & Safety

Led Careem's Safety Product, cutting incidents 25% and imposter cases 50%, making Careem the safest ride in town. Shipped ML-powered Facial Recognition, Document Expiry automation, Government API integrations, Call Masking, and an In-ride Safety Toolkit, backed by dollar impact and LTV analysis for prioritisation.

Accenture logo

Sep 2014 — Jul 2018

UAE, KSA, Qatar

Strategy Consultant

Accenture

Drove impact for the GCC's top organisations across cost reduction, org design, and revenue growth from research, data analysis, and C-suite presentations through to implementation. Clients included Mondelēz ($40M/yr cost reduction), Sadara ($20B enterprise readiness), DP World, Danone, Ferrero, Etihad Airways, Al Futtaim Group, NCB Capital, and Qatar Ministry of Finance.

Wirestorm Innovations logo

Sep 2013 — May 2014

UAE, KSA, USA

Business Analyst

Wirestorm Innovations

Coordinated cross-market business requirements for AT&T and the Colleges of Excellence.

King Hussein Cancer Centre logo

Dec 2010 — Mar 2011

Jordan

Medical Physicist

King Hussein Cancer Centre

Designed radiotherapy treatment plans with oncologists using Pinnacle, for the treatment of cancer patients.

Personal projects

Cool things on the side

Osra.cc

WIP

Osra (WIP) is a Three.js / WebGL / React / Vite web application with hardware-accelerated graphics, built to make it fun to create your own self-growing family tree in 3D & 2D space with custom skins, see interesting connections, and AI-chat about your family.

Fun note: Awarded "Best Final Project" by Codecademy in the Jan–Mar 2026 cohort!

Technical engineering drawing and exploded 3D assembly of Luke Skywalker's ROTJ lightsaber with parts list
SolidWorks render of Luke Skywalker's ROTJ lightsaber hilt

Luke Skywalker's lightsaber (ROTJ)

My 3D model of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber from Return of the Jedi using SolidWorks from Dassault Systèmes. Needs a few touch-ups but someday I'll 3D print it!

Screen recording of FRING chatbot answering a natural-language question about income and expenses

FRING

I've always wanted to ask my income and expenses questions like "how much did I spend on gifts for my wife last year?", things that would take a while to analyse in the app's analytics. So I built FRING (Fahd's Really Intelligent Numbers Guy) to help out. Working out the kinks but it's pretty decent! Named after the meticulius Gus from Breaking Bad :)

Capabilities

Skills

A multidisciplinary approach combining deep product strategy, hands-on AI-augmented engineering, and ten years of real-world execution across fintech, proptech, logistics, and consulting.

For notes and utilities I use when shipping with AI, see FB Tech Tools.

PRODUCT

  • Team Leadership
  • Product Strategy
  • 0→1 Product Building
  • Roadmapping
  • A/B Testing
  • Analytics & Metrics
  • User Research

DOMAINS

  • Fintech
  • Proptech
  • Logistics
  • Trust & Safety
  • Marketplaces
  • Strategy Consulting

Education

Imperial College London logo

Sep 2011 — Nov 2012

Imperial College London

UK

MSc Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering (Honours)

Grade A with Merit Award

McGill University logo

Sep 2006 — Nov 2010

McGill University

Canada

BSc Theoretical Physics

GPA 3.3/4.0

The English College logo

Sep 1999 — Jul 2006

The English College

UAE

A-Level: A A B B

GCSE: A A A A A A A A B

Freelance & Volunteering

Jan — Oct 2012

Imperial Management Review

Editor-in-Chief

Apr — Dec 2011

TotalBarça

Writer & Editor

Apr — Jul 2011

Dubai Ismaili Community Center

Y10 Mathematics & Physics Tutor