Global Product Senior Manager

Locations: Boston | London | Atlanta

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What You'll Do

Join the Data Layer Team, a global portfolio transforming our organization into a data-driven enterprise! The Data Layer Team builds essential data platforms, products, and capabilities to empower our clients and colleagues with high-quality, actionable insights. Our focus is on creating scalable data solutions and advancing our data infrastructure to drive informed decision-making across the company.

As the Global Product Senior Manager- Data Enablement within BCG’s Data Layer Team, you will collaborate with business stakeholders and use case product owners (e.g., BCG Q, Practice Areas), data owners, and engineering teams to translate business and user requirements into a clear data product vision and roadmap.

You will work with various Gen AI use cases and applications, including:

• BCG Q – an internal GenAI expert assistant that enhances client case work by providing answers, recommendations, and activating specialized tools to improve productivity and effectiveness.
• Practice Area GenAI applications – developed by functional practice areas to support various capabilities (e.g., outside-in rapid cost diagnostics).
• Data catalog – a centralized library that provides consulting teams with access to critical tools and data assets across BCG

These tools require ingestion of multiple data sources, and your role will be to strategize the selection of eligible datasets and identify the best sources for each GenAI use case. You will ensure that these use cases and applications are equipped with the necessary data pipelines to maximize their impact on business and users.

You will play a key role in use case ideation and product vision refinement, while also managing the continuous maintenance and enhancement of data asset quality, accuracy, and stability to support evolving use cases.

In this role, you will work closely with the BCG Q team, various Practice Areas (PAs), and data owners to define end-to-end solutions that align with business needs, drive adoption, maximize user value, and optimize user experience.

You will lead and mentor a team of product analysts who will analyze detailed data requirements and feasibility, bridging the gap between business stakeholders and the data engineering/development team.

Detailed responsibilities include:

• Deliver business results and customer value
  • Lead a Data Product squad to continuously develop and enhance data-driven AI offerings
  • Deliver outcomes that support specific and measurable KPIs
  • Own and prioritize the backlog for GenAI data solutions, ensuring alignment with business needs and strategic objectives
• Serve as the voice of customer or end-user
  • Translate business needs into user stories, engaging end users for continuous feedback
  • Engaging in continuous data discovery exercises to understand most valuable data assets that satisfy customer needs
  • Balance customer value, technical feasibility, and business impact when making prioritization decisions
  • Work with product teams to integrate GenAI-enhanced offerings into BCG systems and workflows
• Enable the organization’s new way of working
  • Champion agile principles, ensuring that squads adopt an iterative and user-focused approach
  • Promote collaboration across squads, stakeholders, and leadership teams, fostering alignment in BCG’s data and GenAI strategies
  • Foster a squad culture aligned with BCG digital transformation goals
• Support and enable the Squad to effectively deliver
  • Work closely with data engineers, lead architects, data stewards, data product analysts, and QA engineers to ensure the successful development and deployment of GenAI-enabled data solutions
  • Actively manage Product Analysts engagements across Practice Areas (PAs) to ensure alignment and adoption of GenAI-enabled offerings for Consulting Teams (CTs)
  • Engage with Data Layer Product Portfolio Lead (PPL) and Data Layer Technical Area Lead (TAL) to align on resourcing needs and secure necessary functional expertise
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration to resolve dependencies and remove blockers, ensuring smooth execution

YOU'RE GOOD AT 

• Being user-focused – Deeply understanding and translating business needs into GenAI-enabled solutions, ensuring offerings address real user challenges
• Communicating with transparency – Clearly and openly engaging with stakeholders at all levels, ensuring alignment, visibility, and trust across teams
• Bringing a data-driven approach to decision-making – Leveraging qualitative and quantitative insights to prioritize initiatives, measure impact, and refine solutions
• Facilitating data discovery sessions – Engaging business stakeholders to capture business context, user intent, and data solution objectives, ensuring a well-informed product vision
• Breaking down complex challenges – Applying critical reasoning and creative problem-solving to analyze problem statements and design effective, scalable solutions
• Managing and guiding Data Product Analysts – Leading and supporting Data Product Analysts to ensure effective data prioritization is perform based on use case requirements
• Collaborating with development teams – Ensuring prioritized data sources align with GenAI solution requirements, business objectives, and technical feasibility
• Defining and tracking KPIs – Establishing measurable success metrics to drive squad performance and ensure data products align with OKRs
• Driving innovation – Continuously identifying opportunities to enhance and expand GenAI-enabled data offerings, keeping solutions at the forefront of technological advancements

What You'll Bring

• 8-10+ years of relevant experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, or Scrum Master in a data-driven or AI-focused environment
• Proven experience in AI, GenAI, or data product development, preferably with a focus on GenAI-powered user-facing applications
• Strong background in enterprise software development, data engineering, or AI-driven transformation initiatives
• Experience in agile methodologies, with Agile or Scrum certifications (e.g., Professional Scrum Product Owner (Scrum.org) or Certified Product Owner (Scrum Alliance) preferred)
• Understanding of enterprise data governance, AI model integration, and scalable data architecture
• Familiarity with AI/ML technologies, including GenAI models (e.g., OpenAI GPT, RAG, fine-tuning models, or machine learning frameworks)
• Strategic mindset, with the ability to translate business needs into tangible, high-impact data solutions
• Highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented, with a track record of delivering high-quality AI/data products
• Strong communications and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with JIRA, Confluence or similar tool a plus
• Experience in consulting a plus

Who You'll Work With

• BCG Global Consulting Practice Areas (Functional & Industry) and Data Teams – Partnering with business leaders to transform prioritized offerings into GenAI-enabled solutions, collaborating with teams such as the Data Product Portfolio, Data Governance CoE, Master Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Data Product Development
• Data Layer Product Portfolio Lead (PPL) – Aligning on strategic priorities, roadmap development, and execution
• Data Layer Technical Area Lead (TAL) – Partnering to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, and alignment with BCG’s data and AI infrastructure
• Data Layer Team – Actively managing Data Product Analyst, and working alongside data engineers, lead architects, data stewards, and QA engineers
• Product Teams – Collaborating with product team members to integrate required data sources into GenAI-enhanced offerings
• Agile Coaches – Embedding agile principles into daily work, leveraging coaching support to drive an iterative and user-focused approach to GenAI use case development
• Product Owners – Aligning on priorities, dependencies, and best practices, ensuring consistency and coordination
• Data Product Consumers (Internal Customers) – Translating their voice and needs into user stories, ensuring their requirements are reflected in the backlog, and actively engaging them for feedback and validation
  
  

Additional info

YOUR TRAVEL

• Occasionally working at other BCG offices.
• Working in the Office: This is a hybrid role - roughly half time in the office

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