Global Product Director
Boston Consulting Group · Gurgaon, India · 2mo ago
Who We Are
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What You'll Do
The People Digital Product Portfolio is the largest & most dynamic product portfolio within BCG’s Digital Products Organization. We enable the global technology for BCG’s entire HR & People Function including Recruiting; Talent Management (Staffing, Mobility, & Career Development); L&D and Teaming; and Core HR (including Workday & Compensation). Over the past two years, the HR Product Portfolio has more than doubled in size, and there is more growth to come.
With this growth comes amazing new leadership opportunities, including the Product Owner for a new squad focused on delivering Data & Analytics for Learning@BCG. This product owner role will be responsible for a new data product, consolidating Learning completions and other HR data about Learners to support both reporting, analytics and agentic personalization.
Initially, this role will be part of a larger Learning Transformation project. Long-term this role will be part of a growing suite of data products and analytics, focused on enabling our HR functions.
As the Product Owner, you will represent the voice of the customer, manage stakeholder alignment, and oversee the squad's backlog to deliver impactful results. You will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical requirements, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and high data quality.
Yourresponsibilitiesinclude:
- Deliverbusinessresults and customervalue
- Drive incremental delivery of features for the Learning Data Product, ensuring timely customer value creation.
- Monitor product performance metrics and adjuststrategiesbasedoninsights.
- Support Learning reporting, analytics in thelong-term.
- Prioritizeimpactfulworktomeetmeasurable Key Resultsforthesquad.
- Managethesquad’sbudget and collaboratewithleadershiponfundingneeds.
- Serve as thevoiceofthecustomerorend-user
- Gather and translateuserneedsintoactionableuserstoriesforData & Analytics.
- Engagestakeholderstoalignexpectations and enhance trust.
- Conductongoingdiscoveryactivitiestoidentifypainpoints and opportunities.
- Balance customervalue, cost, and executionspeed in decision-making.
- Set anoverallvisiontodirect and informthesquad’swork
- Bring a strongsenseofownershiptotheproductsquad and engagedeeply in understandingthecurrent and future needsofthefunction.
- Alignsquadactivitieswithbroaderproduct and organizationalgoals.
- Translateobjectivesinto a roadmapwithcleargoals.
- Foster collaborationwithotherProductOwnerstoensureorganizationalalignment.
- Overseewhatisdeliveredbythesquad and when
- Applydesign-thinkingtounderstandsystemuserengagement and solveproblemseffectively.
- Maintain a prioritized backlog ofuserstorieswithcleardelivery timelines.
- Define acceptancecriteriaensuring output meetsbusinessneeds.
- Support and enablethesquadtogetitswork done
- Collaboratewiththesquadtoremoveimpediments and clarifyrequirements.
- Partner withChapter Leads forresourcing and technicalexpertise.
- Provide performance feedbacktosquadmembers and cross-functionalteammembers.
What You'll Bring
- 13+ years of overall professional experience, with 7+ years in a Product Owner or equivalent HR technology/product delivery role
- Experience in managing data-drivenproducts and analyticssolutions.
- Strong communication and stakeholdermanagementskills, particularlywith HR leadership.
- Agile productmanagementexpertise, withprovenexperience in leading Agile teams.
Working knowledge of Snowflake and SQL sufficient to engage with technical teams and interpret data workflows.
- A data-drivenmindset, leveraginginsightsforstrategicdecision-making.
- Knowledge ofintegrations, including API and data ingestionworkflowsis a plus.
- Experience in consulting, learningproductsor HR is a plus.
Who You'll Work With
- Squadmembers, astheirProductOwner and guide.
- Internalcustomers,tounderstandandtranslatetheirneedsintouserstories.
- ProductTeam andPortfolioLeaders,forvision,roadmap, andbudgetalignment.
- TechnicalArea Leaders,forarchitecturalalignment.
- Scrum Leads,toaddressoperationalchallengesandmaintainAgileworkflows.
- OtherProductOwners,forbestpracticesharingandcross-teamalignment.
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