Innovation & Venture Building Manager

1 week ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates GELLIFY Full time

**We are growing in GELLIFY Middle East**

We are looking for a new member of our team. If you’re passionate about technology at the intersection of business, innovation and technology/business disruptions, startups, lateral thinking and proposing new ideas in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you

**GELLIFY **offers an inclusive, dynamic and friendly environment combined with the culture of a structured organization that fosters team energies and proactivity. GELLIFY offers a creative and collaborative environment, centred on customer satisfaction. We offer a space to get involved personally, collaborate and advise companies operating in different industries as well as at the ecosystem level.

We are looking for **Innovation & Venture Building Manager, **with deep expertise at the intersection of business and technology, having worked in a Strategy, Digital or Innovation Advisory practice of a leading consulting company, who would like to live and breathe an entrepreneurial spirit and would like to participate in the growth of a new company's branch in Dubai.

**WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?**

You will help leading corporates in five main areas:

- Venture/product build & launch: market insight & foresight, value proposition & business model design, validation via MVPs and pilots, operating model design, go-to-market, scaling
- Design thinking / customer-centric innovation projects (e.g. creating a new customer experience or solving a particular innovation/customer challenge)
- Innovation lab / venture studio design, build & launch
- Innovation strategy (e.g. deciding which markets, opportunities, technologies the company should focus its innovation efforts on)
- Transformation/change management (e.g. creating a lean/customer-centric/design thinking-led culture in the company)

**WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?**
- Experience with both startups and corporates - particularly in strategy/management consulting, corporate innovation, new product management, consumer insight/research, investment banking/finance
- at least 6 years of experience
- Hungry to learn and grow

**WHAT’S IN FOR YOU?**
- 2-month smart working flexibility
- Wonderful company culture
- Balanced work-life balance
- Being part of a high-growth company/startup “feeling”
- Opportunity to shape the future direction of the company / make an impact


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