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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.

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 (NCC growth) 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 (PIC, PAAF, triage).
• 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

• AI product architecture
• Scalability
• Data governance
• Product lifecycle management
• Governance frameworks
• Stage-gate portfolio processes
• Commercial tracking tools (PIC, PAAF, triage)
• Dashboard building
• Report building

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.