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About the Role

As a Product Management & Innovation Lead, you will work on integrated teams alongside general consultants and clients to lead the development of omnichannel solutions across a wide range of industries. You will drive strategic vision with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, feasible, and client-aligned experiences, products, and businesses, with a focus on driving innovation and exploring emerging technologies.

Responsibilities

Apply Human-Centered Design Principles to Drive User-Centric Innovation
Use deep expertise in human-centered design to uncover user needs and pain points through research.
Align research insights with business and customer goals to shape the product vision.
Lead and take part in ideation, journey mapping, and service design workshops to co-create with users and stakeholders.
Collaborate on prototyping and testing to ensure continuous validation while applying a strategic lens to balance user needs, reliable tech solutions, business needs and alignment.
Support the Delivery of Proof of Concepts (POCs) and Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and Product that Drive Results
Partner closely with Bain teams and clients to understand business challenges and deliver on business needs and drive results.
Use expertise to recommend and drive insights-based solutions that lead to measurable impact for users and the business.
Lead insight generation across user, technical, and business dimensions.
Lead the development of product requirements documents, user stories and help with backlog prioritization by leveraging insight across user, technical and business dimensions.
Apply product management best practices to manage delivery, optimize roadmaps, and run effective agile ceremonies.
Foster effective alignment and collaboration across stakeholders while managing day-to-day work planning and delivery excellence.
Contribute to Product Planning, Roadmap Definition, and Execution
Use product management expertise to guide decision-making and effectively translate complex technical concepts into clear and non-technical language for clients and cross-functional teams.
Leverage business and user insights to help define, size and prioritize product roadmap opportunities, articulating associated tradeoffs.
Contribute to Building an Inspired Team
Play an active role in fostering a positive and collaborative case team culture across AIS, clients, and other stakeholders.
Adapt quickly to client environments, building trust influence through collaboration and consistent engagement.
Support Building Capabilities of AIS, Bain and Client Teams
Continue building skills in human-centered design, agile, technical fluency (e.g., how products are built and scaled), and innovation-driven product management.
Contribute to internal initiatives and intellectual property in Product Management and Innovation.
Capture and share learnings from client work to strengthen institutional knowledge within AIS and Bain communities.
Maintain a curious and proactive mindset; adopting emerging tools and technologies, such as generative AI, to boost productivity and enhance team outcomes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Design or related field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of experience delivering innovation in consulting, tech, industries or startups
Top Tier consulting experience
Product Management experience, including assisting in the development and launch of software, enterprise solutions, services, mobile/web apps or other products
Background in architecture/software dev/data pipelines, a plus
Experienced defining requirements & product flow and implementing AI/tech solutions, a plus
Familiarity with using insights to guide product decisions that consider business value, technical feasibility user needs and business goals, with the ability to assess and lead technical feasibility
Basic proficiency in product managing software development, with some exposure to AI solutions
Experience using Gen-AI powered product development tools effectively (i.e Synthetic Users, V0, Loveable, etc.)
Experience and/or knowledge of design thinking principles and leading or facilitating workshops to cultivate design thinking innovation process
Able to explain the technical aspects of the products worked on
Ability to rapidly absorb and interpret technical information, with a basic understanding of modern design and development principles
Awareness of agile project management methodology, incl. familiarity with Scrum
Awareness of Lean Startup methodology
Experience supporting the architecture and implementation of AI/tech solutions at a smaller scale, a plus
Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss approaches and technicalities of solutions with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate effectively in complex, ambiguous situations, passion for delivering high-impact client results in fast-paced, evolving environments
Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams

Skills

Human-Centered Design
Product Development
Technical Aptitude
Collaborative Mindset
Innovation
Agile Development
Prototyping
Testing
Product Management
Roadmap Optimization
Agile Ceremonies
Stakeholder Alignment
Technical Concept Translation
Generative AI
Design Thinking
Scrum
Lean Startup

Location

New York
San Francisco

Work Type

Permanent Full-Time
Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Design or related field (or equivalent experience)

Salary/Compensations

$197,300

Benefits

Annual discretionary performance bonus
401(k) plan with an annual employer contribution based on years of service
Bain pays 100% individual employee premiums for medical, dental and vision programs
Generous paid time off, including parental leave, sick leave and paid holidays
Fully vested 401(k) company contribution
Paid Life and Long-Term Disability insurance

About the Company

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world’s best places to work.
We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times.
Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don’t happen by chance.
They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment.
We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.
Vector is Bain’s integrated digital and analytics capability, bringing together Enterprise Technology and AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) to deliver cutting-edge innovation.
You’ll join our Product Management & Innovation experts within the AIS team, which includes a group of experts in analytics, engineering, product management, user researchers and design.
Together, we create human-centric solutions that leverage the power of data and artificial intelligence to drive competitive advantage for our clients.