Risk AI Product Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager

The Risk AI Product Strategy & Portfolio Senior Manager (title on our career site AI Strategy & Portfolio Snr 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 Snr Manager/Director reports to the Global PA Product Strategy Lead (PSL), who is working 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 needn
• 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 eg. 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 portfolio outcomes
• Mediate trade-offs between GTM urgency, product innovation, and technical feasibility
• Facilitate portfolio review forums and escalation pathways
• Influence senior MDPs and stakeholders without direct authority, driving clarity of ownership and accountability
• Support the CPO, PA AI Leaders, and Helix Boards with investment decisions, ensuring transparency across the PM community and other PA key stakeholders
• Technical & Product Literacy
• 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

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