Lead, Product Management & Innovation

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

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.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You’ll join our Product Management & Innovation experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions team. This team is part of Bain’s digital capabilities practice, which includes experts in analytics, engineering, product management, and design. In this multidisciplinary environment, you'll leverage deep technical expertise with business acumen to help clients tackle their most transformative challenges. You’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Together, we create human-centric solutions that harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to drive competitive advantage for our clients. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.

WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

As a Product Management & Innovation Lead based in São Paulo, you’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to lead the development of omnichannel solutions across a wide range of industries and challenges. You’ll help drive the strategic vision with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, feasible, and client-aligned experiences, products, and businesses.

You bring a passion for designing and developing customer-centric innovative solutions, a strong foundation in product development, technical aptitude, and a collaborative mindset. With a focus on driving innovation, you’ll work closely with engineering, design, and strategy teams to explore emerging technologies, validate new ideas, and guide agile development from research and planning through execution.

You’ll combine human-centered design, product management, and technical fluency to turn insights into products that deliver measurable results for users and businesses.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Apply human-centered design to product strategy and innovation

• Use human-centered design to uncover user needs and pain points through research and translate those insights into product direction.
• Align user and research insights with business and customer goals to help shape the product vision.
• Lead and participate in ideation sessions, journey mapping, and service design workshops to co-create solutions with users and stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely with design and research teams on prototyping and testing, ensuring continuous validation while balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities.

Drive delivery of proofs of concept (POCs), minimum viable products (MVPs), and products

• Partner closely with Bain teams and clients to understand business challenges and translate needs into solutions that deliver measurable impact.
• Translate business needs into product and technical requirements, partnering with engineering and design teams to align on scope, feasibility, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead insight generation across user, technical, and business dimensions and use those insights to develop product requirements, user stories, and backlog priorities.
• Apply product management best practices to manage delivery, optimize roadmaps, and run effective agile ceremonies.
• Support work and sprint planning, sequencing user stories and helping maintain delivery momentum across agile cycles.
• Problem-solve development challenges by clarifying requirements, helping negotiate scope, and making informed trade-off decisions.
• Engage directly with clients throughout the build to validate direction, identify emerging needs, and co-develop solutions that meet business and user expectations.
• Communicate product progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to client stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate effectively across design, engineering, QA, and client teams to maintain continuity and quality throughout delivery.
• Support end-to-end testing, including UAT, usability testing, and acceptance criteria validation.

Contribute to product planning, roadmap definition, and execution

• Use your product management expertise to guide decision-making and translate complex technical concepts into clear, non-technical language for clients and cross-functional teams.
• Leverage business, user, and technical insights to identify, size, and prioritize product roadmap opportunities.
• Articulate trade-offs across user needs, business value, technical feasibility, and delivery requirements.
• Help define measures of product success, including KPIs related to user adoption and business impact.
• Support change management and implementation planning to help client organizations adopt and sustain new digital products and processes.

Contribute to building an inspired team

• Play an active role on integrated teams comprising consultants, engineers, designers, researchers, and client counterparts.
• Help coordinate across workstreams, resolve ambiguity, sequence priorities, and maintain momentum in complex, fast-moving environments.
• Adapt quickly to client organizations, building credibility and influence through collaboration, consistent engagement, and high-quality delivery.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive culture across AIS, Bain, and client teams, contributing to shared ownership of results.

Build capabilities across AIS, Bain, and client teams

• Continue building your skills in human-centered design, agile methodologies, technical fluency, and innovation-driven product management.
• Contribute to internal initiatives and intellectual property within Product Management & Innovation.
• Capture and share learnings from client work to strengthen institutional knowledge within AIS and Bain communities.
• Maintain a curious and proactive mindset, adopting emerging tools and technologies, including generative AI, to boost productivity and enhance team outcomes.

ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Design, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience delivering innovation in consulting, technology, industry, or startup environments.
• Experience using insights to guide product decisions that balance business value, technical feasibility, user needs, and business goals.
• Experience managing software product development, with exposure to AI solutions.
• Experience effectively using generative AI-powered product development tools.
• Experience with design thinking principles and leading or facilitating workshops that support innovation.
• Ability to explain the technical aspects of products you have worked on clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to rapidly absorb and interpret technical information, with an understanding of modern design and development principles.
• Experience with agile project management methodologies, including Scrum.
• Familiarity with Lean Startup methodology and its principles.
• Experience supporting the architecture and implementation of AI or technology solutions is a plus.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to discuss solution approaches and technical concepts with colleagues and clients from different disciplines.
• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate effectively in complex and ambiguous situations.
• Passion for delivering high-impact client results in fast-paced, evolving environments.
• Curiosity, proactivity, and critical thinking.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with people at all levels and across offices and regions.
• Spanish language proficiency is highly preferred.

WORKING LOCATION AND TRAVEL

This position is based in São Paulo.

This role requires a minimum of three days per week working together in person, either at a client location or at your Bain home office.

Travel is required. This position requires regional travel away from your home office/primary working location. Travel frequency and destinations will vary based on project needs, approximately 50% of the time.

Please submit your 

WHAT MAKES US A GREAT PLACE TO WORK

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.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You’ll join our Product Management & Innovation experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions team. This team is part of Bain’s digital capabilities practice, which includes experts in analytics, engineering, product management, and design. In this multidisciplinary environment, you'll leverage deep technical expertise with business acumen to help clients tackle their most transformative challenges. You’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Together, we create human-centric solutions that harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to drive competitive advantage for our clients. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.

WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

As a Product Management & Innovation Lead based in São Paulo, you’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to lead the development of omnichannel solutions across a wide range of industries and challenges. You’ll help drive the strategic vision with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, feasible, and client-aligned experiences, products, and businesses.

You bring a passion for designing and developing customer-centric innovative solutions, a strong foundation in product development, technical aptitude, and a collaborative mindset. With a focus on driving innovation, you’ll work closely with engineering, design, and strategy teams to explore emerging technologies, validate new ideas, and guide agile development from research and planning through execution.

You’ll combine human-centered design, product management, and technical fluency to turn insights into products that deliver measurable results for users and businesses.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Apply human-centered design to product strategy and innovation

• Use human-centered design to uncover user needs and pain points through research and translate those insights into product direction.

• Align user and research insights with business and customer goals to help shape the product vision.

• Lead and participate in ideation sessions, journey mapping, and service design workshops to co-create solutions with users and stakeholders.

• Collaborate closely with design and research teams on prototyping and testing, ensuring continuous validation while balancing user needs, technical feasibility, and business priorities.

Drive delivery of proofs of concept (POCs), minimum viable products (MVPs), and products

• Partner closely with Bain teams and clients to understand business challenges and translate needs into solutions that deliver measurable impact.

• Translate business needs into product and technical requirements, partnering with engineering and design teams to align on scope, feasibility, and acceptance criteria.

• Lead insight generation across user, technical, and business dimensions and use those insights to develop product requirements, user stories, and backlog priorities.

• Apply product management best practices to manage delivery, optimize roadmaps, and run effective agile ceremonies.

• Support work and sprint planning, sequencing user stories and helping maintain delivery momentum across agile cycles.

• Problem-solve development challenges by clarifying requirements, helping negotiate scope, and making informed trade-off decisions.

• Engage directly with clients throughout the build to validate direction, identify emerging needs, and co-develop solutions that meet business and user expectations.

• Communicate product progress, risks, trade-offs, and decisions clearly to client stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

• Coordinate effectively across design, engineering, QA, and client teams to maintain continuity and quality throughout delivery.

• Support end-to-end testing, including UAT, usability testing, and acceptance criteria validation.

Contribute to product planning, roadmap definition, and execution

• Use your product management expertise to guide decision-making and translate complex technical concepts into clear, non-technical language for clients and cross-functional teams.

• Leverage business, user, and technical insights to identify, size, and prioritize product roadmap opportunities.

• Articulate trade-offs across user needs, business value, technical feasibility, and delivery requirements.

• Help define measures of product success, including KPIs related to user adoption and business impact.

• Support change management and implementation planning to help client organizations adopt and sustain new digital products and processes.

Contribute to building an inspired team

• Play an active role on integrated teams comprising consultants, engineers, designers, researchers, and client counterparts.

• Help coordinate across workstreams, resolve ambiguity, sequence priorities, and maintain momentum in complex, fast-moving environments.

• Adapt quickly to client organizations, building credibility and influence through collaboration, consistent engagement, and high-quality delivery.

• Foster a collaborative and inclusive culture across AIS, Bain, and client teams, contributing to shared ownership of results.

Build capabilities across AIS, Bain, and client teams

• Continue building your skills in human-centered design, agile methodologies, technical fluency, and innovation-driven product management.

• Contribute to internal initiatives and intellectual property within Product Management & Innovation.

• Capture and share learnings from client work to strengthen institutional knowledge within AIS and Bain communities.

• Maintain a curious and proactive mindset, adopting emerging tools and technologies, including generative AI, to boost productivity and enhance team outcomes.

ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Design, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience delivering innovation in consulting, technology, industry, or startup environments.

• Experience using insights to guide product decisions that balance business value, technical feasibility, user needs, and business goals.

• Experience managing software product development, with exposure to AI solutions.

• Experience effectively using generative AI-powered product development tools.

• Experience with design thinking principles and leading or facilitating workshops that support innovation.

• Ability to explain the technical aspects of products you have worked on clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Ability to rapidly absorb and interpret technical information, with an understanding of modern design and development principles.

• Experience with agile project management methodologies, including Scrum.

• Familiarity with Lean Startup methodology and its principles.

• Experience supporting the architecture and implementation of AI or technology solutions is a plus.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to discuss solution approaches and technical concepts with colleagues and clients from different disciplines.

• Ability to work independently, manage priorities, and collaborate effectively in complex and ambiguous situations.

• Passion for delivering high-impact client results in fast-paced, evolving environments.

• Curiosity, proactivity, and critical thinking.

• Ability to collaborate effectively with people at all levels and across offices and regions.

• Spanish language proficiency is highly preferred.

WORKING LOCATION AND TRAVEL

This position is based in São Paulo.

This role requires a minimum of three days per week working together in person, either at a client location or at your Bain home office.

Travel is required. This position requires regional travel away from your home office/primary working location. Travel frequency and destinations will vary based on project needs, approximately 50% of the time. 

Please submit your CV in English to be considered.