COGNNA is a fast-growing cybersecurity startup revolutionizing how businesses manage their security operations. Our innovative SaaS platform provides organizations with the tools to detect, prevent, and respond to cyber threats with ease. Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, COGNNA is on a mission to empower businesses locally and internationally to build resilient and cost-effective cybersecurity operations. As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead our core security, AI, and data integration capabilities—owning the product strategy and execution for solutions that solve real cybersecurity challenges while aligning with evolving regulations (SAMA, NCA, ISO). You will operate at the intersection of security innovation, data engineering, and AI productization, working closely with engineering, compliance, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver meaningful outcomes. This role is for someone who thrives in high-impact, fast-moving environments—where your work directly shapes the product and the company. ️ What You’ll Do 🧭 Product Ownership - Own the full lifecycle: discovery, prioritization, roadmap, delivery, and iteration - Drive the roadmap through customer insights, market research, and internal collaboration 📊 Prioritization & Decision Making - Use data, logic, and business sense to prioritize effectively (RICE mindset) - Define and track KPIs across adoption, performance, compliance, and customer value ⚡ Execution & Delivery - Extract true MVPs and iterate quickly - Write clear, concise requirements—focused on outcomes, not unnecessary complexity - Validate requirements closely with engineering, AI, data, and compliance teams 🧪 Product Discovery & Validation - Create quick wireframes and prototypes to test ideas early - Engage real users before committing to full development 🤝 Cross-Functional Leadership - Lead collaboration across engineering, design, compliance, and business teams - Partner with sales, marketing, and customer success to ensure product adoption and positioning 🔐 Secure-by-Design Thinking - Ensure alignment with frameworks such as SAMA, NCA ECC, NIST, ISO 27001, and GDPR - Deliver features that are secure, compliant, and resilient by design

• Own the Marketplace platform end-to-end, including catalogue, pricing, availability, and operations • Act as the single point of accountability for all marketplace-related issues and performance • Drive platform reliability, accuracy, and business alignment • Audit and eliminate duplicate, irrelevant, or non-serviceable product listings • Define and enforce catalogue quality standards and governance frameworks • Implement structured workflows for product onboarding and approvals • Ensure ongoing catalogue hygiene and consistency at scale • Ensure all product pricing is accurate, approved, and visible only where applicable • Enforce strict controls to prevent incorrect or unauthorized pricing • Align product availability with real-time inventory and fulfillment capabilities • Eliminate listings that cannot be fulfilled or are out of stock • Establish and standardize SOPs for product listing and onboarding, pricing updates and approvals, order validation and processing, and catalogue modifications • Drive compliance across teams; eliminate ad-hoc or unstructured updates • Introduce scalable, repeatable processes that improve efficiency and control • Reduce and eliminate order cancellations caused by invalid or incorrect listings • Ensure alignment with PO-based ordering and business rules • Partner with Sales, Operations, and Finance to streamline order workflows • Improve customer experience by ensuring only valid and actionable orders are processed • Work closely with Engineering to drive platform fixes, enhancements, and automation • Partner with Sales and Operations to validate workflows and enforce governance • Collaborate with Finance to ensure compliance with payment and ordering policies • Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams • Define and track key performance metrics, including invalid orders and cancellation rates, catalogue accuracy and hygiene, product availability compliance • Publish regular reports with insights, root cause analysis, and action plans • Continuously identify improvement opportunities and drive execution

• Maintain a deep understanding of customer needs and feedback through research • Define multi-year vision and OKRs with leadership and partners • Plan, run and iterate experiments to deliver measurable lifts • Drive cross-functional teams to deliver business impact • Ensure products adhere to regulatory requirements • Craft product narratives and communicate priorities across functions

Description and Requirements The Opportunity The Product Management Associate is responsible for translating product vision, customer needs, and business objectives into clearly defined, actionable features that enable Agile teams to deliver meaningful outcomes. Supporting the Product Manager within the API Data Exchange ART, this role helps ensure that solutions are desirable for customers, feasible for delivery teams, and aligned with MetLife's product strategy and operational goals. Guided by our purpose - always with you, building a more confident future - and our New Frontier strategy focused on stronger growth, attractive returns, and all-weather performance, this is an exciting opportunity to sit at the intersection of product, business, and technology. In this role, you will help execute against product direction by shaping features, clarifying intent, and enabling delivery teams with the detail they need to move efficiently and with confidence. Key Responsibilities Lead the elaboration of product features by breaking down product vision, ideas, and epics into clearly defined, actionable features. Create detailed feature descriptions, benefit hypotheses, and acceptance criteria aligned to customer strategy, user experience, and business objectives. Act as a business advocate with technology partners, liaising with agile teams to ensure shared understanding and successful delivery. Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, and subject matter experts to align features with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Ensure timely collection and delivery of documentation required for commercial and operational readiness. Provide clarity on business rules, dependencies, and risks, proactively identifying issues and driving the right conversations to resolution. Support user experience quality by participating in reviews and demos to ensure delivered solutions meet intended outcomes. Coordinate across technology, product, business, and operations partners to manage expectations and delivery timelines. Required Qualifications - High School Diploma required (Bachelor's degree preferred). - 2-4 years of Group Benefits experience in Operations, Product, Data or IT roles. - Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills. - Ability to synthesize multiple inputs into clear, actionable detail for delivery teams. - Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. - Comfort operating in ambiguity and managing competing priorities. Preferred Qualifications - Experience working within a scaled Agile environment supporting multiple teams within a shared product or ART. - Familiarity with end-to-end customer journeys and cross-platform or integration-heavy solutions. - Experience partnering across business, operations, and technology in a matrixed environment. - Strong facilitation and relationship-management skills with the ability to influence without formal authority. The expected salary range for this position is $80,000 - $110,000. This role may also be eligible for annual short-term incentive compensation. All incentives and benefits are subject to the applicable plan terms. Benefits We Offer Our U.S. benefits address holistic well-being with programs for physical and mental health, financial wellness, and support for families. We offer a comprehensive health plan that includes medical/prescription drug and vision, dental insurance, and no-cost short- and long-term disability. We also provide company-paid life insurance and legal services, a retirement pension funded entirely by MetLife and 401(k) with employer matching, group discounts on voluntary insurance products including auto and home, pet, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accident insurance, as well as Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and digital mental health programs, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, volunteer time off, tuition assistance and much more! About MetLife Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the "World's Most Admired Companies", Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™, as well as the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®, MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by our core values - Win Together, Do the Right Thing, Deliver Impact Over Activity, and Think Ahead - we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services. At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us! MetLife is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All employment decisions are made without regards to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital or domestic/civil partnership status, genetic information, citizenship status (although applicants and employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States), uniformed service member or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law ("protected characteristics"). If you need an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at accommodations@metlife.com. This information will be held in confidence and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the application process. MetLife maintains a drug-free workplace. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liabilities. $80,000 - $110,000