Global Product Director
- London, United Kingdom
Posted 6 days ago
About the role
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.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
What You'll Do
As a Global Product Director – AI Innovation, you will lead BCG’s Global AI Innovation agenda through the
CT Zero to One squad. You will guide the team in rapidly turning high-potential AI ideas into working
prototypes, using focused sprints to test concepts, gather evidence, and determine what has the potential
to become an enterprise-ready product.
You will provide senior product leadership from early opportunity identification through prototype delivery
and validation. Working in an environment where requirements are often still emerging, you will create
clarity around the problem to solve, set priorities, and mobilize multidisciplinary teams to build and learn
quickly. You will ensure promising innovations move beyond experimentation with a clear path toward
enterprise readiness and scaled product ownership.
Responsibilities include:
Set the global product direction for AI Innovation, translating emerging opportunities and BCG
- Lead the CT Zero to One team, creating the conditions for multidisciplinary teams to move from
- Frame opportunities and define clear hypotheses, user needs, success measures, and decision
- Guide rapid prototype development and experimentation, using evidence and user feedback to
- Drive promising prototypes toward enterprise readiness, identifying the product, technology, risk,
- Partner across Consulting Practice Areas, AI and technology, product, engineering, and design to
- Establish repeatable zero-to-one ways of working that increase the speed and quality of innovation
YOU’RE GOOD AT
Setting a clear product vision and direction for Global AI Innovation, translating emerging
- Leading the CT Zero to One squad, rapidly turning business needs and emerging AI capabilities into
- Moving from idea to working prototype within a small number of focused sprints, creating clear
- Making disciplined decisions about what to explore, build, advance, pivot, or stop, balancing user
- Driving promising prototypes toward enterprise readiness, identifying what is required to
- Influencing senior leadership and aligning global product, business, AI, technology, engineering,
- Leading multidisciplinary teams through ambiguity, providing clear direction while empowering
- Managing a dynamic pipeline of AI innovation opportunities, balancing emerging demand,
- Communicating complex AI, technology, and product topics clearly, building alignment and driving
- Strengthening zero-to-one innovation practices, creating repeatable ways of working that
What You'll Bring
- 10–12+ years of relevant experience, including significant product leadership across AI, data, or
- Demonstrated success taking emerging ideas from early discovery and experimentation through
- Strong understanding of AI and GenAI capabilities, data platforms, and the technical foundations
- Ability to frame highly ambiguous problems, make evidence-based trade-offs, and translate
- Proven success influencing senior leaders and aligning global, cross-functional teams around
- Experience leading and developing multidisciplinary teams while creating clarity, accountability,
- Strong customer orientation and business judgment, connecting user needs, technology
These expectations retain the experience precedent of the source JDs while aligning the leadership
scope to MSD3 expectations for deep expertise, complex problem solving, broad business impact,
influence, collaboration, and people leadership.
Who You'll Work With
- BCG Global Consulting Practice Areas (Functional & Industry) and Data teams: the Data Product
development teams
- BCG IT, Knowledge Team and PA Specific data teams: business intelligence and analytics,
- BCG Leadership: Heads of IT, Consulting / Practice Areas, Knowledge Function, and Enterprise
- The Data Governance network: Data Owners, Stewards, and Data Governance Directors
- Data Layer Team – Collaborating closely with data engineers, lead enterprise architects, data
products and infrastructure.
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.