Research Director

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

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What You'll Do

BCG seeks an experienced and forward-thinking Research Director to join its global editorial team. The Research Director will be instrumental in initiating and leading original research projects that primarily support the firm’s global marketing campaigns focused on CEO challenges, AI, and other topics of importance to business leaders.

As Research Director, you will play a number of critical roles:

• Conceptualize, design, and execute impactful research projects that are aligned with BCG’s strategic content aims regarding priority topics.
• Lead research projects, coordinate resources, and oversee project life cycles from inception to publication.
• Collaborate closely with BCG’s global thought leaders, the BCG Institute, external experts, and senior executives across the Marketing & Communications function to ensure research relevance and impact.
• Partner in producing insightful, evidence-based reports, articles, and multimedia content that resonate with executive audiences globally.
• Contribute to building BCG’s authority and thought leadership in critical business and management topics.

Strong communication and teaming skills are critical. The Research Director will cultivate relationships across priority-topic campaigns, marketing functions, and the business, acting as an adviser, influencer, and problem solver. This role demands a strategic communicator who excels at distilling complex concepts into clear messages that advance BCG’s global campaign narratives.

Sharp editorial sensibilities are also essential. The Research Director will collaborate with others to distill insights from surveys and other research tools and to turn those insights into narratives that BCG’s most important audiences need to hear. Deep familiarity with data visualization and in bringing stories to life through data are also important.

The Research Director’s organizational home is the BCG Content Studio, a part of BCG’s Marketing & Communications organization.

YOU’RE GOOD AT

• Partnering in driving BCG’s positioning as a leading voice in strategic business topics related to CEO challenges, AI, and cost management.
• Identifying strategic research opportunities that are aligned with top-priority global marketing initiatives.
• Leading end-to-end management of research projects, ensuring timely execution and delivery of high-quality insights.
• Designing and coordinating cross-functional research projects, providing guidance and mentorship throughout the research process.
• Building relationships with internal stakeholders across functions and at all organizational levels and with external research partners, industry experts, and academics.
• Communicating clearly and effectively, with a focus on engaging with internal stakeholders (including senior leadership and practice area experts) to align research objectives.
• Ensuring rigorous,…