Global Product Owner in London

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation— inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact. To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

The Product Owner is a senior leader within the People Digital Product Team, accountable for the design and delivery of technology solutions supporting transformation programs impacting BCG's People function. You will define and drive workstream plans, product roadmaps, influence the overall program plan, deliver and influence detailed requirements, and oversee the delivery of high-quality products to meet those requirements. You will ensure delivery of scalable, secure, and user-centric solutions that enhance employee experience and enable HR operations globally.

This role requires end-to-end ownership—from shaping direction through to execution—while influencing senior stakeholders and aligning global priorities across a complex, matrixed organization.

You will:

• Lead components of transformation programs, with responsibility for project planning and execution, product design and delivery, and stakeholder management.
• Lead end-to-end product lifecycle management, from ideation through delivery and continuous improvement.
• Lead an agile squad: gathering requirements, setting priorities, managing backlog, and ensuring high-quality delivery.
• Drive functional design decisions, ensuring consistency, scalability, and architecture alignment.
• Partner with senior stakeholders (Global CoE, HR leadership, Finance, Risk) to shape requirements, influence priorities, and drive adoption.
• Oversee relevant vendor relationships, ensuring value realization and alignment with long-term architecture.
• Shape global rollout and change management, including stakeholder engagement, communications, and training strategies.
• Act as a thought partner to HR and digital leadership, proactively shaping future capabilities and roadmap evolution.
• Ensure product alignment with BCG's data strategy, with clear ownership of data integrity, collaboration with data product owners, and handling of highly sensitive/confidential data.
• Manage upstream and downstream system dependencies, ensuring seamless end-to-end process and data flow across the ecosystem.
• Plan and deliver operational support (e.g. merit, benefits enrolment), ensuring product readiness and stability during peak periods.

YOU'RE GOOD AT

You are a forward thinker who leverages your experience to shape and drive change and innovation. To be successful, you need to have a consultative approach coupled with subject matter expertise across change management, project management and transformation. You need to be a problem solver and change driver – we don’t just fix the immediate ask, but take ambiguous issues, break them down to understand the root cause, and then design an approach and solution that not only adopts outside thinking, but also brings stakeholders along with us. You understand that providing great service means understanding and solving the real stakeholder problems and not just doing everything your stakeholders ask for. Building relationships will also be critical to your success – strong written and verbal communication skills are a must. You need to be able to effectively tailor your communications since we work across all levels of our organization, from C-level and senior leaders, to local teams doing the work.

Beyond being able to perform diligent, effective change and stakeholder management, balance will be crucial. You will need to listen, negotiate, and flex where needed; while also having the stamina and strength to stand your ground on matters that are important and for the greater good. You need to be outcome-focused with the ability to proactively take initiative, use good judgment to prioritize requests and be comfortable working with minimal direction. You will understand the big picture, even when the work gets granular, requiring strong organizational skills—an ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize them, and carry them out independently. This role does require you to "roll up your sleeves" and play an active role to make change happen.

What You'll Bring

You have a bachelor's degree and preferably an advanced degree. You have experience working in a global team, across cultures and time zones. You have experience in large program delivery and ideally you have first-hand experience of world-class professional services. Workday platform experience/certifications are recommended. You have excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without power. You are familiar with agile processes and willing to support others to make it real.

This role is part of the People Digital Product Portfolio. The Product Owner works closely with the Global HR Functions as well as Regional and Local HR Teams, HR Product Teams, other functions (e.g. Finance, Risk, etc), and the UX Centre of Excellence to drive design and implementation of new functionality.