GLIG — Product Development Manager
About the Role
Deep Knowledge Group is seeking a Product Development Manager to transform Gulf Longevity Intelligence Group from a collection of data, content and relationships into a coherent portfolio of usable intelligence products.
GLIG is intended to combine Gulf-focused ecosystem intelligence, databases, stakeholder mapping, recurring publications, rankings, analytics and commercial/institutional products.
The Product Development Manager will own the path from concept to usable product to commercial or institutional adoption.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the architecture and roadmap of GLIG's product portfolio.
- Structure the GLIG intelligence platform and its major user journeys.
- Translate research databases and analytical capabilities into practical user-facing products.
- Develop product requirements for dashboards, databases, rankings, trackers and intelligence tools.
- Productize recurring publications and flagship analytical outputs.
- Develop subscription and membership propositions.
- Support commercialization of Gulf HealthTech and Longevity analytics.
- Define institutional use cases for governments, investors, corporations, healthcare organizations and innovation ecosystems.
- Coordinate CRM/relationship-intelligence requirements with the wider GLIG operating model.
- Work with Data Science and IT on product development.
- Work with Chief Editor on integration between editorial and analytical products.
- Work with BD and Partnerships on external validation and commercialization.
- Develop MVPs and test them with real prospective users.
- Define pricing, packaging and access tiers together with commercial teams.
- Maintain product roadmap, priorities, dependencies and release criteria.
- Use data on actual usage and external feedback to determine what should be developed next.
Candidate Profile
The strongest candidate is not somebody who only writes requirements documents.
We are looking for an operator who can look at a large strategic concept, identify what people will actually use or buy, reduce it to a practical first version and coordinate the work necessary to get it live.
Requirements
- 4+ years in Product Management, product development, strategy/innovation or comparable work.
- Professional English and Arabic.
- Experience developing digital, data, media or intelligence products.
- Strong understanding of product requirements, user journeys, MVPs and roadmaps.
- Strong commercial and analytical judgment.
- Experience working with technical and non-technical teams.
- Ability to work across data, content, BD and external stakeholders.
- Strong project ownership and delivery discipline.
- Practical AI literacy.
Strong Advantages
- Gulf/GCC product experience.
- Market-intelligence or information-product background.
- HealthTech, investment, finance or innovation-ecosystem experience.
- Subscription or membership-product experience.
- Experience with government or institutional users.
What Success Looks Like
GLIG should have an increasingly clear and usable portfolio of products, not an indefinitely expanding collection of concepts and internal materials.