Expert Senior Manager Product Management & Innovation

About Bain & Company

Bain & Company is consistently recognized as a leading global workplace. The firm has been ranked as the top consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list multiple times. Bain & Company focuses on building extraordinary teams by bringing together diverse backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills within a supportive and inclusive work environment. The firm aims to hire exceptional talent and foster an environment where individuals can thrive professionally and personally.

Role Overview

Bain & Company is seeking an Expert Senior Manager, Product Management & Innovation, to join its AI, Insights & Solutions (AIS) team in Riyadh, Riyadh. This full-time role involves working within a group of experts in analytics, engineering, product management, user research, and design. The focus is on creating human-centric solutions that leverage data and artificial intelligence to provide competitive advantages for clients. The Expert Senior Manager will lead the development of omnichannel solutions across various industries, define strategic visions, and advise on innovation and product strategy. The role requires independent leadership, including workplan ownership, cross-collaboration, team management, client engagement, and overseeing product definition and delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the integration of human-centered design into product strategy, aligning research with business and customer goals.
• Translate complex user insights, business needs, and technical feasibility into a clear product vision, roadmap, feature map, and development-ready backlog.
• Lead ideation, journey mapping, and service design workshops to align teams around user-centered solutions.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration to support prototyping and testing for continuous validation.
• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and clients in tackling business challenges and developing innovative product solutions.
• Utilize agile and product/CX best practices to guide execution and ensure outcomes.
• Own work planning and execution, ensuring high-quality contributions aligned with client goals.
• Lead the development and evolution of product roadmaps, ensuring alignment with broader strategic goals.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, non-technical language for stakeholders.
• Prioritize effectively across multiple workstreams and build a development-ready backlog.
• Cultivate a high-performing, collaborative team culture across Bain, clients, and other stakeholders.
• Mentor others and lead capability-building across AIS, Bain, and client teams in human-centered design, agile, technical fluency, and innovation-driven product management.
• Maintain a proactive mindset, adopting emerging tools and technologies, such as generative AI, to enhance productivity.

Required Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant Bachelor's degree.
• A minimum of 10 years of experience in product management, with deep expertise in agile methodologies, design thinking, and software development practices.
• Expert knowledge in the four lenses (feasibility, viability, desirability, strategy) with the ability to manage any lens as needed.
• Expertise in product managing software development, including hands-on experience in AI solutions.
• Expertise in business case building to identify, quantify, and frame the potential value of products/solutions.
• Experience using Gen-AI powered product management and product development tools (*, ProductBoard, Jira, Synthetic Users, VoiceOver, Loveable).
• Foundational knowledge of agentic AI architectures, common use cases, and end-to-end workflows.
• Expertise in design thinking principles and leading cross-functional teams through workshops to cultivate design thinking innovation processes.
• Ability to speak fluently about the technical aspects of products.
• Ability to rapidly absorb and interpret technical information, with a deep understanding of modern design and development principles.
• Deep experience in applying agile and scrum methodologies to lead and scale cross-functional teams.
• Experience in Lean Startup principles to drive experimentation, validate ideas, and inform product strategy.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technical approaches with colleagues and clients from other disciplines.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate effectively in complex, ambiguous situations.
• Experience leading multiple projects independently and growing and developing junior product managers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant Master’s degree in business, technology, or a related field.
• Commercial acumen and understanding of business models.
• Experience working in startups or other entrepreneurial environments.
• Top-tier consulting experience.
• Background in architecture, software development, or data pipelines.
• Experience in product managing the architecting and implementing of AI/tech solutions at an enterprise scale.
• Solid product management experience, with a history of managing ideation to launch of analytics or ML-driven software, solutions, or services.
• Experience in product managing the building and deploying ML pipelines into production.

Work Environment and Travel

This full-time position is based in Riyadh, Riyadh. The role requires a travel expectation of 40–50% to engage with clients and teams across various locations.