Senior Director, Customer Practice Digital Solutions (CXT)

Bain & Company; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bain & Company is seeking a Senior Director, Product Management to lead the strategy, roadmap, commercialization, and evolution of AI-enabled products within our Customer Experience Transformation (CXT) portfolio.

You will partner with senior Bain leaders to define vision, prioritize investments, guide development, drive adoption, and deliver measurable client impact across multi-disciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of product management experience leading strategy and PM for enterprise software or AI-enabled products.
• Proven success in roadmapping from concept through commercialization and ongoing PM.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled product development and agile methods.
• Experience collaborating with senior executives across business, commercial, and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, commercialization, and lifecycle of AI-enabled products within CXT.
• Translate business strategy into product priorities, MVPs, launch plans, and long-term roadmaps.
• Make build/buy/partner decisions in collaboration with the GSL.
• Define product requirements with technical, commercial, and client-facing teams.
• Drive discovery with Partners, case teams, clients, and stakeholders for high-value opportunities.
• Develop business cases, product narratives, and commercialization plans.
• Define and monitor product success metrics including adoption and impact.
• Lead ongoing enhancements based on user feedback, market developments, and AI advances.
• Foster disciplined product management across the CXT portfolio and integration into client offerings.

Skills

Product strategy

Roadmapping

AI-enabled products

Enterprise software

Stakeholder management

Executive engagement

Product leadership

Agile methodologies

Commercial thinking

Client-facing

Job description

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor's Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record 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.

WHERE YOU'LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

As the Senior Director, Product Management, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, commercialization, and ongoing evolution of Bain's priority AI-enabled products within our Customer Experience Transformation (CXT) solution. You will shape a scalable product portfolio that helps clients unlock customer-led growth through innovative AI-powered capabilities.

Working across product, commercial, and technical teams, you'll translate strategic priorities into successful products that deliver measurable client impact. You'll partner with senior leaders across Bain to define product vision, prioritize investments, guide product development, drive adoption, and continuously improve products based on market feedback and real-world usage.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

You will serve as the senior product leader for CXT's priority AI-enabled product portfolio, ensuring products solve meaningful client challenges while supporting Bain's long-term growth strategy.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, commercialization, and lifecycle management for priority AI-enabled products within CXT.
• Translate business strategy into clear product priorities, MVPs, launch plans, and long-term product roadmaps.
• Make build/buy/partner decisions in collaboration with the GSL
• Partner with technical, commercial, and client-facing teams to define product requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
• Drive product discovery with Partners, case teams, clients, and internal stakeholders to identify high-value opportunities.
• Develop business cases, product narratives, demonstrations, enablement materials, and commercialization plans.
• Define and monitor product success metrics, including adoption, usage, commercial performance, and client impact.
• Lead ongoing product enhancement through user feedback, market developments, competitive insights, and emerging AI capabilities.
• Foster strong product management discipline across the CXT portfolio while ensuring products integrate into a cohesive client offering.

Lead the Evolution of CVCP

You will help establish Customer Value Creation Potential (CVCP) as the strategic entry point into Bain's Customer Experience Transformation offering by:

• Defining the product roadmap for outside-in and inside-out diagnostic capabilities.
• Translating client and case-team needs into repeatable product requirements.
• Standardizing scalable product components while identifying areas requiring industry or client customization.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure required data and analytical capabilities are available.
• Supporting commercialization through demonstrations, delivery guidance, and client-ready materials.
• Continuously improving the product based on adoption, lighthouse engagements, and client feedback.

Shape Athena and Engagement Acceleration

You will drive the commercialization and ongoing development of Athena and related engagement acceleration products by:

• Defining commercialization priorities across markets and industries.
• Developing repeatable deployment models, use cases, and playbooks.
• Positioning Athena as a differentiated accelerator that helps clients rapidly move from ideas to measurable value.
• Collaborating with product, technical, and commercial teams to prioritize enhancements.
• Refining the product portfolio through deployment insights and evolving market needs.

Build Bain's Synthetic Customers Capability

• You will help establish Bain's Synthetic Customers capability as a differentiated AI-powered offering by:
• Defining the long-term product vision and roadmap.
• Prioritizing client use cases across customer experience, marketing, loyalty, proposition, and brand.
• Translating client and case-team requirements into scalable product features.
• Leveraging Bain's proprietary data assets to create differentiated client value.
• Building compelling commercial narratives and evolving the product through continuous market learning.

ABOUT YOU

We're looking for someone who brings strategic product leadership together with strong commercial instincts and the ability to influence across a complex stakeholder environment.

You will likely have:

• 8-10 years of product management experience, with experience leading product strategy and product management for enterprise software, AI-enabled products, or digital platforms.
• Demonstrated success developing product roadmaps from concept through commercialization and ongoing product management.
• Strong understanding of AI-enabled product development and agile product management principles.
• Experience working with senior executive stakeholders across business, commercial, and technical functions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Strong client-facing credibility including client c-suite (CTO/CDAO level) and experience supporting executive-level discussions.
• Experience translating business problems into clear product requirements.
• Proven ability to manage multiple strategic priorities in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• Passion for innovation, customer-centric product development, and delivering measurable business value.