Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Finance AI Product Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager
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The Finance AI Product Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager
The Finance AI Product Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager (title on our career site AI Strategy & Portfolio Snr Manager/Director) owns the vision, prioritization, and governance of a portfolio of agentic assets, primarily from a cross-PA perspective – bringing together key stakeholders across PA offers/topics and ensuring complementarity with PA offers powered by BCG X (moonshots), many of which include AI assets. The role translates business priorities into a differentiated and actionable AI product portfolio that creates value at both PA and firm level.
Role Reporting
The AI Strategy & Portfolio Snr Manager/Director reports to the Global PA Product Strategy Lead (PSL), who is working directly with BCG Chief Product Officer and key stakeholders from the Practice Areas (PAs) and from X.
Team Collaboration
The CPO and PSL will establish a team of multiple portfolio roles, with various seniority levels. All portfolio roles share the same governance framework and collaborate to drive consistency, modularity and reuse across the firm.
Role Focus
This role is deliberately market driven. The role's scope and mandate will be reviewed annually to reflect potential shifts in the competitive landscape, firm strategy, and the evolving AI product needs - ensuring BCG's portfolio leadership remains relevant and ahead of the curve.
Key Responsibilities
Portfolio Strategy & Governance
- Define the portfolio vision and strategic guardrails for all agentic assets under your remit, maintaining constant alignment across portfolio roles and with PA key stakeholders (especially, PA AI leader and Product Managers – DPMs - managing assets in the portfolio).
- Establish and enforce governance standards, including stage-gate criteria for build, scale, pivot, and sunset decisions – in alignment with other portfolio roles and AI Factory leadership.
- Identify and enable synergies and consolidation opportunities across products/offers/PAs.
- Balance the portfolio across maturity, innovation, and reuse potential.
- Advise on buy-or-build decisions and prepare funding and prioritization trade-offs.
- Maintain transparency & provide insights on portfolio performance, risks, and ROI with all relevant stakeholders.
Investment Management & Business Acumen
- Own budget prioritization and annual planning for the portfolio, across build & maintenance needs.
- Evaluate commercial value, cost-to-build, differentiation, and client impact to guide investment decisions.
- Mediates trade-offs between go-to-market urgency, product innovation, tech feasibility/scalability and other guardrails eg. legal & RA.
- Support governance boards and strategy board sessions and decision-making.
- Together with the PSL and the relevant DPMs, design and maintain effective assets’ performance metrics and dashboards.
- Navigate billable economics (NCC growth) and internal investment mechanisms.
- Base prioritization on quantitative insights - adoption, usage, ROI, client pull, and reuse potential - and drive evidence-based portfolio refresh cycle.
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Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Align Offer, Topic, and Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads around shared portfolio outcomes.
- Mediate trade-offs between GTM urgency, product innovation, and technical feasibility.
- Facilitate portfolio review forums and escalation pathways.
- Influence senior MDPs and stakeholders without direct authority, driving clarity of ownership and accountability.
- Support the CPO, PA AI Leaders, and Helix Boards with investment decisions, ensuring transparency across the PM community and other PA key stakeholders.
Technical & Product Literacy
- Understand core elements of product/platform architecture and dependencies across systems.
- Understand scalability, integration, and technical debt at the portfolio level.
- Engage credibly on product architecture, system dependencies, scalability, and technical debt at the portfolio level.
- Ensure alignment with AI Factory and data governance standards.
- Promote reusability and modularity across PA agentic assets.
Change Leadership & Innovation
- Champion the shift toward truly agentic offers across PAs.
- Coach Product Managers and business stakeholders on governance discipline, investment case design, marketing and commercialization.
- Foster a culture of transparency, cross-topic reuse, and responsible innovation.
- Scan for emerging technologies and market shifts to enhance portfolio competitiveness.
Qualifications
Experience & Expertise
- 10+ years of relevant experience, ideally combining a consulting or professional services background with hands-on product management expertise.
- Relevant domain expertise for the portfolio.
- Proven track record of owning and managing a portfolio of products/AI-powered offers, with direct accountability for investment decisions and performance outcomes.
- Solid understanding of product lifecycle management - from ideation and build through scale, pivot, and sunset.
- Familiarity with BCG or a peer consulting firm: PA structures, offer management, and client economics.
- Experience with governance frameworks and stage-gate portfolio processes.
- Sufficient technical literacy to engage credibly on AI product architecture, scalability, and data governance.
- MBA or similar Master's degree preferred.
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Leadership & Interpersonal Skills
- Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment in complex, matrixed, global organization.
- Strong business acumen: able to assess commercial value, build investment cases, and navigate both billable and internal funding mechanisms.
- Good judgment and the ability to connect as a trusted peer across all levels - Managing Directors and Partners, consulting staff, and BST colleagues.
- Comfortable bringing structure, discipline, and clarity to fast-moving, ambiguous transformation efforts.
- Able to manage competing priorities and multiple workstreams without losing focus on strategic outcomes.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to articulate complex trade-offs to senior audiences.
Ways of Working
- Self-starting and proactive - able to operate with autonomy and drive initiatives forward without waiting for directions.
- Open to new ideas, evolving priorities, and iterative ways of working in a rapidly changing environment.
- High integrity, positive attitude, and sound discretion when handling sensitive information.
Who You'll Work With
The Cost AI Portfolio Strategy Lead works at the intersection of strategy, product, and technology across a broad stakeholder landscape, including and not limited to:
- Chief Product Officer (CPO)
- Global PA Product Strategy Lead (PSL)
- PA Leadership especially PA AI leaders, GPMD, VBD, Offer/Topic leaders
- Domain Product Managers (sitting in Vantage)
- Offer/Topic/Sector management teams sitting in the PAs
- AI Factory Lead
- AI Factory delivery teams
- Other AI Portfolio Strategy roles and BCG X commercial activation roles
- Marketplace Product Lead
- BCG/X enabling functions (Finance, HR, Legal, IT, Marketing)
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