Senior Analyst, Product Management
Description & Requirements
Company profile
Bain & Company is one of the top management consulting firms in the world that helps the world's most ambitious changemakers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes.
We are over 1,000 business professionals, serving functions in operations, HR, finance, legal, tech, marketing, research, and data analytics, who support our offices globally. Our mantra of “shared innovation, seamless execution,” underpinned by a passion for results, teamwork, and creativity, helps us stay at the top of our game operationally.
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.
About the role
The Senior Analyst, Product Management is a member of the Next Generation Software Solutions (NGSS) team, whose mission is to drive better and faster results for Bain consultants and clients through AI-powered digital products that are embedded in Bain's consulting solutions. The NGSS team partners closely with Industry and Capability Practices to bring Bain's IP to life through the development and growth of tools, technologies, services, and support capabilities.
In this role, the Senior Analyst understands how software fits into the consulting strategy and supports the product team and the Practice to deliver product outcomes that drive commercial objectives. The Senior Analyst may also contribute to projects and support broader initiatives.
This role sits within our retail merchandising product portfolio, a suite of agentic AI products deployed with some of the world's largest retailers. Examples include a pricing and promotions product that helps consulting teams and clients analyze historical promotions and apply predictive models to optimize future promotional effectiveness, and a buying and sourcing product that supports supplier negotiations.
The role sits at the intersection of product, data, and engineering, and requires strong comfort with quantitative data, data models, and analytical use cases. You will work directly with a Senior Product Manager who is also staffed to the portfolio, alongside engineering and data science teams.
Key responsibilities
Product strategy, planning, and operations
- Understand the broader Bain vision, relevant consulting solution(s), and software-enabled consulting strategy
- Understand the product strategy, roadmap, product priorities, and OKRs to guide the development team and make well-informed recommendations and product decisions
- Understand product positioning, budgeting, pricing, and go-to-market strategy
Discovery and delivery execution
- Independently contribute to the development and execution of the backlog by researching and creating user stories, defining requirements and acceptance criteria, testing new AI-powered product ideas, bug fixes and enhancements, and communicating key information about product releases
- Own product features end to end, translating user and client needs into clear specifications covering UI components, calculations, data structures, and data flows
- Support the product by answering questions from users and client-facing teams, and troubleshooting issues, attempting to find the root cause and escalating when required
- Use AI tools to accelerate discovery and delivery work, such as prototyping features, drafting requirements, or exploring solutions before committing engineering time
Product mindset and customer insights
- Knowledgeable of product management and software development best practices
- Have deep understanding and empathy for users, and develop knowledge of the industry and competitive landscape
- Track, analyze, and organize key metrics and user feedback, summarizing findings for the Senior Product Manager, development team, and business stakeholders
- Understand how to assess desirability and viability, partner with engineering to assess feasibility, identify trade-offs, and make recommendations on how to balance technical and business requirements
Collaboration and influence
- Build strong relationships and collaborate closely with cross-functional team members, including designers, engineers, analytics, and client-facing teams, to continuously deliver value throughout agile development processes
- Participate in departmental and organizational initiatives
Qualifications
- Experience working on software products, for example as a business analyst or in an entry-level product role
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a quantitative field such as computer science, engineering, or science, or in business with a quantitative focus, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, and time management skills
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Demonstrated passion for learning, curiosity, and ability to quickly grasp new technologies, tools, and concepts
- Foundational data skills and technical acumen, including hands-on experience with data querying and analysis tools such as SQL, Python, or Databricks
- Practical experience in gathering, interpreting, and validating user needs, as well as defining, documenting, and validating requirements, particularly for data and analytics features
- Proficiency in agile methodologies, for example Scrum, using tools such as Jira
- Proficiency using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude to support day-to-day work, and experience building wireframes, prototypes, or functional software using AI tools such as Codex, Claude Code, Replit, or v0
- Demonstrated basic presentation and storytelling skills through PowerPoint and other visualization tools
- Strong thought partnership, collaboration, and ability to slice bigger requirements into smaller, more manageable pieces
- Fluent in English
Nice to have
- Experience in pricing and promotions analytics, retail buying and supplier negotiations, or related retail and commercial domains