Expert Associate Consultant, Tech Insights Group

Bain & Company; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking talented students for its Tech Insights Group in London. You will engage with leading software and technology companies, supporting due diligence and value creation engagements for private equity clients.

The role combines research, product strategy input, and technology architecture insights. You will collaborate with globally distributed experts, contribute to investment theses, and develop your technology and commercial acumen through formal and informal training

Qualifications

• Undergraduate/Master’s degree in a relevant field (i.e., computer science, data science, statistics, information systems, engineering, business management).
• We are looking for candidates in their penultimate year of study, or those with less than two years of full-time work experience.
• Professional fluency in English required
• Fluency in French/German is a plus

Responsibilities

• Perform primary and secondary research: collect and analyze data from various sources to test or further our understanding of business or market.
• Product strategy and roadmap assessments: contribute to the assessment of product capabilities, positioning, and roadmap viability.
• Technology strategy and roadmap assessments: assess architectures, technical debt, hosting and security.
• Develop and communicate insights and recommendations to the case team, technology leaders, and PE investors

Skills

Passion for software

Analytical mindset

Strong communication

Teamwork

Entrepreneurial mindset

Client service orientation

Education

Undergraduate/Master’s degree in CS/Data science/Statistics/IS/Engineering/Business management

Penultimate year or <2 years of experience

Job description

What Makes Us a Great Place To Work

We are proud to be consistently recognised as one of the world's best places to work. Bain has ranked as the top consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list every year since the rankings began in 2009, and has earned the #1 overall spot seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don't happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.

What Makes Us a Great Place To Work

We are proud to be consistently recognised as one of the world's best places to work. Bain has ranked as the top consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list every year since the rankings began in 2009, and has earned the #1 overall spot seven times. Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don't happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.

Who You’ll Work With

Tech Insights Group (TIG) at Bain & Company is a rapidly growing global team of world-class consultants and technologists. We work with leading Private Equity (PE) investors and their tech-enabled portfolio companies to act as technical advisors in investment processes. We conduct product and technology due diligence engagements and value creation assignments, leveraging our extensive expertise in software and understanding of commercial environments specific to tech-enabled businesses. We deliver our projects by combining a team of consultants with CPOs and CTOs of leading global technology and software companies with decades of both advising and operating experience. The team has completed 400+ product and technology diligences and value creation engagements worldwide.

Over the past 4 years, we supported our clients on some of the most visible technology investments in the US and Europe, including several of the Top 2024 and Top 2025 software deals. We conduct engagements spanning enterprise applications, vertical applications (HCIT, FinTech, EdTech), infrastructure software, cloud software, and tech enabled services (IT services, e-Commerce, AdTech). We also help funds understand GenAI disruption potential and opportunities to inform their investment thesis. Bain's Tech Insights practice is a place where agile minds work powerfully and nimbly together, thriving on spirited discussion.

The Tech Insights Group operates within the Expert Client Delivery (ECD) team, a global capability area designed to provide support to clients across Europe and beyond through a single, globally organized team. TIG enhances our Private Equity Group (PEG) and General Consulting (GC) capabilities by offering specialized technical expertise to support our clients at every stage of the investment lifecycle from deal generation and due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning.

What You’ll Do

You will get deep exposure and access to the leading software and tech enabled companies globally, typically 10-20 companies each year. On cases, you will work closely with our global experts comprising former CTOs and CPOs of leading global technology and software companies, leading private equity investor clients, and our general consulting and commercial diligence teams. This is a particularly exciting time to join the team – we have ambitious growth plans and you will be contributing to scaling a growing global capability within Bain & Company.

• Perform primary and secondary research: collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data across a variety of sources to test or further our understanding of the business or market
• Product strategy and roadmap assessments: contribute to the assessment of product capabilities, positioning, and roadmap completeness and viability
• Technology strategy and roadmap assessments: contribute to the assessment of architectures (current and future), technical debt, and related areas such as hosting and security
• Develop and communicate insights and recommendations to the case team members, technology leaders, and PE investors

About You

• Undergraduate/Master’s degree from a top tier university in a relevant field (i.e., computer science, data science, statistics, information systems, engineering, business management).
• We are looking for candidates in their penultimate year of study, or those with less than two years of full-time work experience

• Passion for software
  • Demonstrate a passion for software as well as the tech industry more broadly (e.g., digital transformation, disruptive business models)
  • Ability to absorb and interpret technical information
• Client service orientation and EQ
  • Passion for delivering high-impact client results
  • Strong interpersonal skills and emotional agility
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills
  • Analytical and data-driven mindset
  • Inquisitive mindset and eager to learn
  • Aptitude for creative, quantitative, and qualitative problem solving.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and teamwork
• Entrepreneurial, curious, creative, and innovative thinking
• Strong belief in agile continuous improvement principles
• Strong alignment with Bain operating principles
• Strong teamwork ethos and ability to work with team members with diverse skills and backgrounds in an inclusive fashion
• Language requirements
• Professional fluency in English required
• Fluency in French/ German is a plus

YOUR CAREER

Throughout your career at Bain you will participate in world class formal and informal training programmes in order to ensure you continuously develop your skills. In addition, you will be assigned a mentor to help guide you through your career and will develop a network of your peers across teams and offices. Working alongside an outstanding group of individuals, you will develop and enhance your own technology expertise, commercial acumen, and analytical capabilities. Whether your long-term goal is to grow with us, join a PE/VC firm, work in the tech/software industry, or to start the next great technology company, you will build a fantastic foundation by joining our multi-talented and highly motivated team.