Product Development Manager — Life Sciences
About the Role
Deep Knowledge Group is seeking a universal Product Development Manager to turn its Life Sciences, Longevity and human-performance research and intellectual property into practical, testable and commercially usable products.
This is deliberately not structured as a conventional BioTech product-manager role.
The successful candidate may come from Product Management, technology, operations, consulting, entrepreneurship, FinTech, consumer products or another execution-focused environment. What matters is the ability to enter a difficult subject, understand it rapidly, challenge assumptions, structure an MVP and coordinate multiple specialist teams toward deployment.
Product Environment
The role may support products and project families including:
mLongevity — https://www.longevity.group/modular-longevity
Dubai Longevity Constellation — https://www.longevity.group/constellation
Longevity Club — https://www.longevity.group/club
Longevity Banking Card — https://www.longevity.group/card
Gulf Longevity Intelligence Group — https://www.longevity.group/glig
diagnostics and biomarkers intelligence;
Longevity and HealthTech analytics;
Longevity Blueprints and LBams/API-AMS;
breathing, hypoxia and human-performance projects;
other practical Longevity Medicine products.
Core Mandate
Take ideas, research, protocols, datasets, blueprints and existing technical assets and convert them into:
clear product definition → MVP → validated user/commercial proposition → working deployment → iteration.
Key Responsibilities
Define product objectives, users, problems, scope and success criteria.
Translate scientific or technical research into practical product requirements.
Create product roadmaps, MVP scopes, user journeys and structured implementation plans.
Separate what is essential for deployment from what can wait.
Coordinate Data Science, IT, scientific specialists, designers, MarTech, BD and external providers.
Ensure product-development work progresses even when not every underlying research question is fully resolved.
Define product features and acceptance criteria.
Evaluate competitor products and alternative solutions.
Develop business-model and commercialization hypotheses together with BD.
Build or improve pricing, packaging and positioning logic.
Coordinate scientific/technical validation where necessary without allowing validation processes to become an excuse for indefinite non-deployment.
Identify external technologies, vendors and partners that can accelerate the product.
Track product readiness, blockers and decisions.
Conduct practical user, partner or customer validation.
Manage launch and post-launch iteration.
Candidate Profile
DKG's current Life Sciences hiring direction intentionally prioritizes universal operators and strong project/product managers over default recruitment from conventional medical and biotechnology career tracks.
A medical or BioTech degree is therefore not required.
We are particularly interested in candidates who are personally engaged with areas such as longevity, self-quantification, biohacking, human performance or evidence-based health optimization — including candidates whose careers were built outside conventional medicine.
The important combination is:
open-minded + skeptical + evidence-disciplined + execution-oriented.
The person should be capable of challenging both mainstream assumptions and unsubstantiated longevity hype.
Requirements
3+ years in product management, product development, project leadership, operations, entrepreneurship or a comparable execution role.
Demonstrated history of moving a product or complex project from concept toward deployment.
Ability to rapidly learn scientific and technical domains.
Strong analytical and systems thinking.
Excellent project structuring and prioritization.
Strong cross-functional coordination.
Practical AI fluency.
Excellent English.
Ability to work independently in ambiguity.
Strong Advantages
Personal or professional experience with Longevity, quantified self, biohacking, human performance or preventive-health technologies.
Experience with IHHT/hypoxia, wearable data, diagnostics or consumer health products.
Digital-health, FinTech, marketplace, real-estate technology or membership-product experience.
Experience with physical products/facilities as well as software.
Startup or 0-to-1 product background.
What Success Looks Like
Success is not a longer roadmap.
Success is a sequence of better-defined products, smaller and faster MVPs, real external validation, resolved blockers and products moving into practical use or commercialization.