BCG X Global PA AI Strategy & Portfolio Manager

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The AI Strategy & Portfolio Manager supports the prioritization, execution, and governance of a portfolio of agentic assets, supporting stakeholders across PA offers/topics and ensuring complementarity with PA offers powered by BCG X (moonshots), many of which include AI assets. This role helps translate business priorities into actionable portfolio inputs, building toward independently shaping AI product decisions that create value at the PA, BU, and firm level.

The AI Strategy & Portfolio Manager reports to the Global PA AI Strategy & Portfolio Director, who is working directly with 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 and as the individual builds experience. This position requires adaptability and involves, without being limited to the following:

• Support the definition of portfolio vision and strategic guardrails for agentic assets in your remit, maintaining alignment with the Senior Manager/Director and PA key stakeholders (PA AI leader and Product Managers/DPMs)
• Support establishment and enforcement of 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 potential synergies and consolidation opportunities across products/offers/Pas
• Balance the portfolio across maturity, innovation, and reuse potential
• Advise and support buy-or-build recommendations and help prepare funding and prioritization trade-off materials
• Maintain transparency & provide insights on portfolio performance, risks, and ROI with all relevant stakeholders

• Support budget prioritization and contribute to 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 board sessions and decision-making
• Together with the PSL and the relevant DPMs, contribute to effective assets' performance metrics and dashboards
• Navigate billable economics (NCC growth) and internal investment mechanisms
• Use quantitative insights - adoption, usage, ROI, client pull, and reuse potential - to support evidence-based portfolio refresh recommendations

• Support alignment across Offer, Topic, and Sector Managers, Product Managers, and Tech Leads around shared portfolio outcomes
• Help identify trade-offs between GTM urgency, product innovation, and technical…