BCG Platinion | Senior AI Tech Consultant, Tech Advisory & Delivery

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) · New York, NY · Today

Information Technology$150k/yrFull-time

About the role

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.

BCG's Tech and Digital Advantage (TDA) practice focuses on helping clients deliver competitive advantage and business superior performance through data, technology, and digital. BCG Platinion sits within the TDA practice and is at the heart of the strategic impact we have with our clients. Our consultants and experts globally work across all industries and provide deep experience and expertise in a wide variety of topics including Tech Advisory and Delivery, Architecture, Enterprise Solutions and Packaged Software, Cybersecurity, and Technology Risk Management.

Our Tech Advisory and Delivery Chapter within BCG Platinion helps clients solve some of their most challenging problems through the development of superior IT concepts and tech solutions. The ideal candidate is both passionate as a consultant and technologist, and can bring their expertise to help develop customized, innovative client solutions.

Responsibilities

As a Senior AI Tech Consultant, you’ll be given end-to-end responsibility for an individual “module” within a BCG client engagement and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients’ problems. You’ll work on a variety of digital topics, applying generalist consulting skills to strategic digital & technology questions. Working together with clients to understand their issues, you’ll create strategies for change, win buy-in for your recommendations, and collaborate with fellow BCGers to transform client potential into performance.

Our consultants within the Tech & Digital Advantage (TDA) Chapter are an integral part of BCG’s core consulting team; we work side-by-side with all practice areas to create value and competitive advantage for our clients. You’ll help your clients answer questions such as:

“How will AI disrupt my business model?”
“How can businesses use data and analytics to create highly personalized outreach delivered through a seamless omnichannel experience?”
“How can I ship higher quality digital services to my customers faster by using agile?”

Requirements

At Platinion, we expect our consultants to be able to contribute and quickly get up to speed on a variety of topics to support the ever-changing demands of our clients. However, that broad ability to deliver needs to be grounded in deep technological knowledge in 2-3 of our primary areas of expertise such as:

Expertise supporting AI and digital transformation efforts by developing strategies around:
- AI and Agentic Platforms.
- Data and digital analytics platforms.
- Cloud infrastructure and technologies.
- Data management capabilities.
- Enterprise Tech Platforms.
- Business IT architecture.
- Software and product management (including Agile ways of working).
- Tech, Enterprise Architecture, and Data governance.
Experience with a wide breadth of tech / AI / digital offerings, including but not limited to:
- Developing roadmaps and current state assessments for IT and AI/Data organizations in large companies across various industries.
- Orchestrating technical program delivery across business stakeholders, complex vendor landscapes, and technology ecosystems.
- AI / LLM cost optimization and FinOps.
- IT Benchmarking and recommendations for IT cost take-out initiatives.
- Developing future state IT vendor landscape, vendor assessments/selections automation, tech cost benefits analysis, eCommerce, platform valuation, and design.
- Supporting IT functions during mergers and acquisitions, including the functional and technical transformation of an organization’s IT department.
- Communicating the differences and benefits between multiple cloud computer providers and strategies for migrating from on-premise architecture.
- Utilizing working knowledge and experience with GenAI and its potential use cases and client implications to deliver both practical and visionary solutions.
Experience supporting the design and delivery of AI-powered products within a functional and/or industry business domain, including:
- Defining and prioritizing AI product requirements and user stories grounded in domain-specific workflows.
- Translating business problems into AI-enabled product concepts and functional specifications.
- Supporting agile product delivery including sprint planning, backlog management, and iterative development.
- Contributing to product testing, quality assurance, and user acceptance activities.
- Supporting the configuration and integration of AI and generative AI tools into enterprise workflows.
- Supporting definition of product / solution architecture and data integration patterns.
- Assisting with data readiness activities including mapping, cleansing, and validation across source systems.
- Contributing to the design of agentic workflows and automation use cases within a functional domain.
- Supporting vendor evaluations and platform assessments for AI product tooling.
- Assisting with change management, training, and adoption activities to embed AI products into business operations.
- Optimizing business and IT processes within complex and heavily matrixed organizations and effectively communicating a path forward for clients and internal stakeholders.
- Delivering data and digital platforms using techniques such as Agile, DevSecOps, and Cloud native architectures.

Skills

Specific AI Product Domain Expertise Topics (preferred)

FP&A & FinOps:
- Support the design and delivery of AI-powered products and subject matter depth in one or multiple core finance processes, including FP&A, financial close and reporting, procure to pay, order to cash, etc., with understanding of underlying finance systems (e.g. ERP, CLM, EPM, etc.) and data (e.g., GL, Orders, Invoices, Contracts, Plan/Forecast, etc.).
- Experience deploying AI use cases ranging from operational quick wins (e.g., AI chat enabled reporting insights) to strategic transformation (e.g., AI order-to-cash automation).
Supply Chain / S&OP(E):
- Support the design and delivery of AI-powered products and subject matter depth in one or multiple key supply chain processes including demand planning, inventory optimization, procurement, logistics, and fulfillment, with understanding of underlying systems (e.g., ERP, MES, APS) and data (e.g., BOM, Orders, Inventory, etc.).
- Experience deploying AI use cases ranging from operational quick wins (e.g., stockout detection) to strategic transformation (e.g., Agentic S&OP transformation).
Go-To-Market (GTM):
- Support the design and delivery of AI-powered products and subject matter depth in one or multiple key GTM processes including marketing, sales, customer success, and revenue operations, with understanding of underlying systems (e.g., CRM, CMS, CPQ, SPM) and data (e.g., Customer, Lead/Opportunity, Order/configuration, Territory/Quota, etc.).
- Experience deploying AI use cases from operational quick wins (e.g., lead scoring, outreach automation) to strategic transformation (e.g., AI-native revenue operations).

Written communication
- Effectively codifying messaging and data into presentable materials and being comfortable delivering communications output in an efficient manner – accuracy and speed are critical to success of fast-paced, high-profile projects.
- Synthesizing wide-ranging conversations, artifacts, and best practices into clear, action-oriented recommendations.
- Assisting with business development through writing proposals, scoping projects.
- Contributing to our thought leadership through written publications and speaking at events and conferences.
Presentation and Facilitation
- Presenting materials, case updates, and escalations to client and internal teams.
- Facilitating working sessions and workshops with both client and internal teams.
- Building relationships with key clients.

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Master's degree in information technology, computer science, economics, supply chain, logistics or system engineering, business management/administration, or relevant field.
2+ years of practical experience in IT/AI consulting, product management, professional software development, product and program implementation.
Hands-on experience with SQL, Python, or similar.
Preferred experience with at least one of the following:
- AI product management.
- AI platforms (e.g., AWS Agentcore, Azure Foundry, n8n, Aera, Palantir, Agentforce etc.).
- Data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, etc.).
- Planning platforms (e.g., Anaplan, Kinaxis, OMP, etc.).
- SAP / Oracle.
- Salesforce.
Exceptional learning and ramp-up skills, especially on IT topics such as data and digital platforms.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
Outstanding ability to work creatively, autonomously, analytically, in a fast-paced problem-solving environment with a focus on customer and results.
GenAI tool fluency (e.g., demonstrated use of GenAI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of responses.
Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role may involve up to 80% travel to client sites and BCG offices. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.

Benefits

At BCG, we care about our people, and offer best-in-class benefits to support you personally and professionally including:

An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, offering a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands-on applications.
A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem-solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment.
Comprehensive benefit program that includes:
- Full cost of medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their