# Mohamed Darwish

Mohamed Darwish is a product leader based in Dubai, working across consumer technology, marketplaces, and financial services.

- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Current role: Senior Manager, Product & Strategy at Rasan
- Website: [Mohamed Darwish](https://mdarwish.me/)

## Work experience and domains

### Rasan

- Role: Senior Manager, Product & Strategy
- Focus: Seed & 360
- Dates: January 2026 to present
- Domains: Venture lab; Scaleups; Insurance; Financial services

### Mrsool

- Role: Principal PM → Domain Lead
- Focus: Buyer Experience
- Dates: November 2024 to January 2026
- Domains: Discovery; Ordering; Payments; Advertising

### talabat

- Role: Senior Product Manager
- Focus: Growth & Monetization
- Dates: June 2020 to October 2024
- Domains: Discounts; Growth; MarTech; Subscriptions; Experimentation; Monetization

### MNT-Halan

- Role: Lead Product Manager
- Focus: Consumer & Platform
- Dates: January 2019 to June 2020
- Domains: Lending; Buy now, pay later; Payments

### Jereed

- Role: Co-founder
- Focus: Sustainable Commerce
- Dates: January 2016 to January 2019
- Domains: Sustainable furniture; E-commerce; Marketplaces

## Expertise

### Product & strategy

Finding the right problem. Taking a product from an early idea to a useful, working business.

Topics: 0 → 1; Product discovery; New ventures

### Growth & marketplaces

Connecting the customer experience with the systems that help a marketplace grow.

Topics: Experimentation; Monetization; Consumer products

### Financial services

Making complex financial products easier to discover, understand, and use.

Topics: Insurance; Payments; Lending

### AI & data

Using data to ask better questions, and applied AI to explore what a product can do next.

Topics: Applied AI; Search; Analytics

## Writing

### [Product Liftoff](https://theliftoff.substack.com/)

My newsletter about product and growth.

Featured essay: [Understanding Competition](https://theliftoff.substack.com/p/understanding-competition) — JTBD and Unexpected Foes.

## Side projects

Side projects will be added here as they become available. No projects are publicly listed yet.

## Contact

- Email: [mohamed@mdarwish.me](mailto:mohamed@mdarwish.me)
- LinkedIn: [Mohamed Darwish](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mudarwish/)

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