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About the Role

The AI Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager leads the prioritization, execution, and governance of a portfolio of agentic assets, primarily from a cross-PA perspective. This role translates business priorities into an actionable AI product portfolio that creates value at PA, BU, and firm levels. The role's scope will evolve and requires adaptability to refine approaches as needed.

Responsibilities

• Define the portfolio vision and strategic guardrails for all agentic assets.
• Establish and enforce governance standards, including stage-gate criteria for build, scale, pivot, and sunset decisions.
• 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 and provide insights on portfolio performance, risks, and ROI.
• Support budget prioritization and contribute to annual planning for the portfolio.
• Evaluate commercial value, cost-to-build, differentiation, and client impact to guide investment decisions.
• Mediate trade-offs between go-to-market urgency, product innovation, tech feasibility/scalability and other guardrails.
• Support governance boards and strategy boards sessions and decision-making.
• Design and maintain effective assets’ performance metrics and dashboards.
• Navigate billable economics and internal investment mechanisms.
• Base prioritization on quantitative insights and drive evidence-based portfolio refresh cycles.
• Align Offer, Topic, and Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads around shared portfolio outcomes.
• Facilitate portfolio review forums and escalation pathways.
• Build relationships with senior MDPs and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Support the PSL and PA AI Leaders with investment decisions.
• 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.
• Leverage commercial tracking tools.
• Build dashboards and reports independently.
• 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.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of relevant experience, ideally combining a consulting or professional services background with hands-on product management expertise.
• Relevant domain expertise for the portfolio.
• Demonstrated experience contributing to the management of a portfolio of products/AI-powered offers, with growing 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.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment in complex, matrixed, global organizations.
• 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.
• 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.
• Promotes growth mindset across team and demonstrates resilience under pressure.
• Self-starting and proactive - able to operate with autonomy and drive initiatives forward without waiting for direction.
• 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.

Skills

• Product Management
• AI Product Architecture
• Data Governance
• Scalability
• Commercialization
• Investment Case Design
• Portfolio Management
• Stage-gate Processes
• Stakeholder Management
• Business Acumen
• Communication Skills

Experience Level

• 8-10 years of relevant experience

Education Level

• MBA or similar Master's degree preferred

About the Company

• Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities.
• BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963.
• Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
• Organizations must blend digital and human capabilities to succeed.
• Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change.
• BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose.
• We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

Equal Opportunity

• Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
• BCG is an E - Verify Employer.