Senior Manager, TSG Product Management

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WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

You’ll join our Technology Services Group team in GBS Warsaw. This team supports Bain’s global business through technology products and services that help our teams work more effectively and deliver impact for clients. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across functions, geographies, and seniority levels, partnering closely with product owners, engineering teams, senior stakeholders, vendors, Legal, Risk, Procurement, and other technology teams.

WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM

As Senior Manager, TSG Cybersecurity Product Management, you’ll set the overall strategic vision for one or more complex products, including short- and long-term product goals. You’ll ensure the product team is working effectively together, using strong business acumen to interpret input from stakeholders across diverse functional backgrounds and translate it into clear priorities, roadmaps, and outcomes.

You’ll also be responsible for the day-to-day management, professional development, and coaching of direct reports, helping shape team capacity, skills, and ways of working as product needs evolve.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

•    You’ll create a high-level product vision and roadmap, using firm and TSG priorities as a guide and applying strong judgment to balance business needs, technical considerations, and changing priorities.

•    You’ll build buy-in for the product suite with senior stakeholders, incorporating their input and continuously re-evaluating priorities as conditions shift.

•    You’ll communicate the product vision and strategy clearly to product owners and their teams, making sure responsibilities are well understood and progress stays aligned with priorities.

•    You’ll define and track KPIs and other success measures to evaluate progress against the product vision and business objectives.

•    You’ll work with other Product Managers to identify integration points and help create a seamless user experience across Bain.

•    You’ll evaluate trade-offs, remove roadblocks, and make critical decisions that reflect both business and technical needs.

•    For vendor-supported products, you’ll make well-researched vendor recommendations and coordinate with senior leadership, TSG, Legal, and Procurement teams throughout the process.

•    For internally developed products, you’ll actively participate in relevant Agile ceremonies.

•    For some products, you may actively manage product budgets, including professional development and licensing costs, while tracking spend against approved amounts.

•    You’ll directly manage a team of 1–2 individuals, supporting their professional development through coaching, development planning, training recommendations, and performance review input.

•    You’ll partner with your supervisor on capacity planning, helping inform recommendations on team shape, size, skill development, and outsourcing opportunities.

ABOUT YOU

•    Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.

•    8–10+ years of relevant experience in product management, technology, or a related field.

•    Experience setting direction and prioritizing work across a software product area; specifically focused on networking, cloud, and endpoint protection. 

•    Experience owning outcomes across complex, multi-team initiatives with broad business impact.

•    Service security experience is strongly preferred, including an understanding of how security considerations influence product decisions, vendor management, risk mitigation, and service delivery.

•    Experience leading cross-functional collaboration to drive alignment and execution.

•    Experience working in Agile environments, with an in-depth understanding of Agile methodologies.

•    Ability to create and present business cases to senior stakeholders, facilitate discussion, and drive toward consensus.

•    Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate complex requirements for engineering teams and articulate direction to leadership.

•    Experience evaluating vendors, making strategic recommendations, managing existing vendor relationships, holding vendors accountable for deliverables, and escalating issues appropriately.

•    Ability to define, measure, and track progress against business objectives.

•    Strong people management skills, including coaching, development, and effectively leveraging team members’ expertise.

•    Ability to navigate difficult situations while maintaining strong relationships.

WORKING MODEL

This role is based in GBS Warsaw and follows a hybrid working model, with a minimum expectation of two days per week in the office. Working model details will be confirmed as part of the recruiting process.