BCG X PA AI Strategy & Portfolio Director

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Boston | London

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The AI Strategy & Portfolio Sr 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.

The AI Strategy & Portfolio Sr Manager/Director reports to the Global PA Product Strategy Lead (PSL), who works directly with BCG Chief Product Officer and key stakeholders from the Practice Areas (PAs) and from X. 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.

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.

The scope of the role will evolve as the organization matures. This position requires a startup mindset and the ability to continuously adapt and refine roles as needed, and involves—without being limited to— the following:

• 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

• 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 e.g. legal & RAI
• Support governance boards and strategy boards 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 cycles

• Align Offer, Topic, and Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads around shared…