Expert Senior Manager, Product Management & Innovation (AI)

Location: Dubai, UAE or Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; travel expectation: 40–50%

Company

Bain & Company is a consulting firm whose AI, Insights & Solutions team develops data- and AI-powered solutions with clients across industries.

What you will do

• Lead human-centered design strategy, product innovation, ideation, journey mapping, and service design workshops.
• Define product visions, roadmaps, feature maps, development-ready backlogs, user stories, mockups, architecture, and acceptance criteria.
• Set strategy and lead delivery of proofs of concept, minimum viable products, and software products, including AI-enabled solutions.
• Guide prototyping, testing, agile execution, and continuous validation while balancing desirability, feasibility, viability, and strategic alignment.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams and clients, manage workplans and stakeholders, frame product tradeoffs, and deliver insight-based strategies with measurable impact.
• Mentor product managers and build capabilities in human-centered design, agile, technical fluency, innovation, and emerging tools such as generative AI.

Requirements

• Relevant bachelor’s degree.
• At least 10 years of product management experience, including deep expertise in agile methodologies, design thinking, and software development practices.
• Expertise across feasibility, viability, desirability, and strategy, with the ability to manage any lens as needed.
• Expertise in product-managing software development and hands-on experience with AI solutions, including foundational knowledge of agentic AI architectures, orchestration, tool use, and evaluation.
• Expertise in business-case development and in identifying, quantifying, and framing product or solution value.
• Experience using generative-AI-powered product management and development tools, including ProductBoard, Jira, Synthetic Users, VoiceOver, and Loveable.
• Strong design thinking, agile, Scrum, Lean Startup, technical communication, interpersonal, prioritization, and independent working skills.
• Experience leading multiple projects independently, developing junior product managers, and collaborating with engineers, designers, researchers, clients, and multi-office teams.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.

Nice to have

• Relevant master’s degree in business, technology, or a related field.
• Commercial acumen, understanding of business models, startup or entrepreneurial experience, and top-tier consulting experience.
• Background in architecture, software development, or data pipelines.
• Experience product-managing enterprise-scale AI or technology solutions, analytics or ML-driven products from ideation to launch, and ML pipelines deployed into production.
• Additional fluency in Arabic.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment.
• Work in integrated teams with consultants, clients, engineers, designers, researchers, and product specialists.
• Fast-paced, experimentation- and data-driven environment focused on high-impact client solutions.
• Opportunity to build institutional knowledge and product and innovation capabilities across AIS and Bain.