Senior Analyst, Enterprise Innovation, Technology Solutions Group

About the role

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Who You’ll Work With

You’ll join our Technology Solutions Group. This team considers the full spectrum of people, tech, and process to help others at Bain achieve their goals. We aim to understand our partners in the business so well that our proposed architectures, apps, and automations really do improve their work lives. If you’re the sort of person who embraces change, who has an entrepreneurial spirit, and who friends and family still call for tech advice, this might be a great team for you.

Where You’ll Fit Within the Team

The Senior Analyst, Enterprise Innovation, sits within Tech Solutions and is responsible for leading smaller, less-ambiguous innovations end-to-end and supporting larger, more-ambiguous innovations, from ideation and incubation, prototype and funding, and finally to scaling and steady-state transition.

What You’ll Do

• Work with cross-functional stakeholders to help ensure solutions meet customer needs and business objectives.
• Leverage business acumen, an understanding of Bain business concepts, and an at-cause approach to learning new technologies to tactically execute rapid innovation sprints.
• Balance strategic thinking, hands-on execution, and the ability to lead the management of smaller innovation projects and support more senior team members with complex initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Opportunity Discovery (33%)
• Participate in early discovery phases of potential software opportunities.
• Aid in problem discovery and validation, market scan, and partnership evaluation.
• Contribute to solution ideation, PoC definition, and test and learn activities.
• Help translate business goals into product concepts using design thinking, lean start-up philosophy, and agile delivery methods.
• Solution Discovery & Product Design (33%)
• Assist innovation manager in software solution discovery (e.g., creation of low/no-code prototypes through third-party platforms), owning parts or workstreams of the process.
• Assess the needs of target users through research methodologies.
• Translate user needs into a product concept and wireframes with detailed requirements.
• Collaborate with the innovation sponsor, architecture, and engineering to define and assess options for software delivery approach.
• Collaborate with virtual teams operating across different time zones.
• Engage in tasks such as building proof-of-concept prototypes, creating minimum viable products.
• Support cross-functional teams to ensure smooth transition from pilot to full-scale production, including technical integration, security, scalable infrastructure, and operations.
• Product Development (33%)
• Support the innovation manager in leading a cross-functional technical team.
• Contribute to software development process utilizing internal resources or working with vendors.
• Collaborate with virtual teams operating across different time zones.
• Engage in tasks such as building proof-of-concept prototypes, creating minimum viable products.
• Support cross-functional teams to ensure smooth transition from pilot to full-scale production, including technical integration, security, scalable infrastructure, and operations.

About You

• Hybrid: This role follows a hybrid model, requiring in-office presence at least 1 day per week.
• Associate's/Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience: 2-4+ years of relevant professional experience; B2B early-stage product management experience building products from conception to launch.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment.
• Strong thought partner, successful in collaborating with peers to come up with the best answer.
• Self-starter, able to spot issues that need to be addressed and take action with comfort working independently and/or remotely from supervisors in a fast-paced environment.
• Able to understand the big picture and how the details fit into place.
• Curiousity and passion for bringing new ideas to life, able to navigate ambiguity and ask questions to drive clarity, willing to embrace change that sometimes comes with disruptive nature of new ideas.
• Able to effectively share information digestibly across stakeholder groups with excellent oral, written, and PowerPoint communication skills.
• Invest in building both business and technical acumen, or order to effectively position the value of a solution for a particular audience.
• Proven ability to work effectively in diverse and distributed teams, across all levels within Bain U.S.

Compensation Information

• Annual Discretionary Performance Bonus: This role may also be eligible for other elements of discretionary compensation.
• 401(k) Company Contribution: Bain & Company's comprehensive benefits and wellness program is designed to help employees achieve personal independence, protection and stability in the areas most important to you and your family. Bain pays 100% individual employee premiums for medical, dental and vision programs, offering one of the most comprehensive medical plans for employees without impacting your paycheck.
• Paid Time Off: Generous paid time off, including parental leave, sick leave and paid holidays.
• Life and Long-Term Disability Insurance: Paid Life and Long-Term Disability insurance.

Role

• Some local governments in the United States require a good-faith, reasonable salary range to be included in job postings for open roles. The estimated annualized compensation for this role is as follows:
• In Boston, MA, the good-faith, reasonable annualized full-time salary range for this role is between $108,250 - $130,000; placement within this range will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to experience, education, licensure/certifications, training and skill level.
• In Chicago, IL, the good-faith, reasonable annualized full-time salary range for this role is between $103,500-$124,250; placement within this range will vary based on several factors including, but not limited to experience, education, licensure/certifications, training and skill level.