We are an ever-growing global team of the world’s most remarkable entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, venture architects, product experts and investors. Our ventures create a strategic advantage for the most important global companies.

 

This is BCG Digital Ventures. Adventure awaits you…

 

 

 

We have entered a decade of disruption of large corporate business models, driven by a step change in the power of technology and the audacity and speed of start-ups. To be fit for the future, visionary companies will deliberately re-imagine themselves by injecting or attacking established models with new ideas fuelled by technology.

 

Our Venture Architect Team consists of world-class business leaders, corporate strategists, product specialists and designers. Together, we are helping corporations own the next horizon of innovation.

 

 

• Demonstrate leadership across all stages of the BCG Digital Ventures business model, including innovation, product development, incubation and commercialization

 

• Lead a cross-functional team of senior professionals to build and launch new ventures, products and services on behalf of clients, adhering to strict deadlines and integrating all perspectives into a strong product brief
• Define the business model options and case for new ventures, products and services
• Develop the economic model and business plan for new ventures, products and services
• Assess internal capabilities and capacities to develop a sourcing strategy
• Quantify business value and funding models
• Define the commercial launch and go-to-market strategy
• Create the framing report (an overview and explanation of the project scope, objective and hypothesis) for new initiatives
• Collaborate with the Strategic Design and Product Development leads, as well as clients, to define a minimum viable business build (or product / service)

 

• Plan and deliver new ventures, products and services
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure that product development and delivery is aligned with the launch and value scheme of new ventures, products and services
• Mobilize new venture models by defining the target state, commercial partnership construct and success criteria
• Align target state outcomes and success criteria to develop a clear understanding of how value will be created
• Adopt a lean start-up approach to building a minimum viable business and go-to-market strategy
• Outline key team roles and responsibilities across work streams
• Identify required partners for regulatory requirements or support needs
• Define the investment business case and outline key performance, measurement and reporting frameworks
• Explore and define commercial partnership options with the client, considering alternate fee arrangements as appropriate
• Work with Product and Partnership managers to identify, negotiate and secure eco-system partners to accelerate business build and launch (leveraging strategic alliances to make the best technologies available to the world)
• Oversee newly established venture teams to execute the organizational staffing, product or service development and business build efforts
• Work with Strategic Design and Product Development leads, as well as clients, to align feature prioritization with go-to-market testing

 

• Lead the execution of agreed go-to-market plans
• Facilitate the build and testing of operational processes, systems and reporting capabilities
• Lead the preparation and negotiation of contractual agreements with suppliers, partners and regulatory bodies
• Implement an early feedback loop to enable continuous feedback, learning and iteration for ventures, products and services
• Monitor and report key business and customer success measures to clients, including regulatory reporting, celebrating successes and balancing opportunities for improvement
• Review service-level outcomes across support partners, ensuring accountability and providing feedback for change where required
• Ensure the venture team is consistently synthesizing customer and market feedback to recommend opportunities for change or improvement in subsequent releases
• Mobilize follow-on release plans with consideration to both the run and change aspects of the venture, balancing value creation with quality of product and service
• Foster an environment of innovation and customer centricity, institutionalizing agile innovation practices and a customer insight to action culture
• Scale new ventures, products or services to achieve outsized returns and profound customer and market impacts
• Execute alternate fee arrangements to ensure a celebrated outcome that secures client advocacy and referral business

 

• Engage directly with the client and new venture business units to identify continual support opportunities for BCG Digital Ventures
• Help strike the balance between clients’ needs and business requirements
• Ensure all perspectives are appropriately represented

 

• Contribute to business development ahead of, as well as throughout, client engagements
• Create intellectual property, points of view and industry/ topic platforms
• Contribute to the development of thought leadership across a range of emerging business, technology and design topics
• Design and facilitate co-creation sessions with multi-disciplinary client teams

 

 

• Considerable experience with strategy development, business planning and future visioning, as well as quantitative and economic modeling (preferred)
• Design or product development expertise
• A background in product prototyping and testing
• A bachelor’s degree (business, psychology, economics, strategy or equivalent from a top-tier institution preferred)
• A master’s degree (postgraduate, MBA or equivalent study) strongly preferred
• Experience in a high-pressure start-up environment with exposure to multidisciplinary teams and/or involvement with a top-tier consulting firm