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Job Description

The Bain Innovation Exchange is seeking three new team members in San Francisco. If interested, please apply to only one role. We can determine which position best fits your experience. Thank you!

Company Overview

Bain & Company is one of the world's leading management consulting firms, where bold thinking, inspired people and a passion for results come together for extraordinary impact. Bain helps transform the world's most important businesses into vigorous, agile organizations that anticipate the unpredictable, adapt rapidly to disruption and outcompete their opposition. We work with clients who do not hide from the future but want to define it, clients with high potential and high ambition, determined to adapt and become enduring winners.

Bain was founded in 1973 on the principle that consultants must measure their success in terms of their clients' financial results. Bain's clients have outperformed the stock market 4 to 1. With offices in all major cities, Bain has worked with over 4,000 major multinational and other corporations from every economic sector, in every region of the world. Bain was also recently ranked among Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in 2019.

BIE Overview

Bain has been building out its corporate innovation capabilities and services through its Bain Innovation Exchange (BIE). The BIE is a global community of change-makers, entrepreneurs, futurists, venture capitalists and innovation experts who connect with one another to push the boundaries of digital transformation and innovation. The BIE provides a platform for start-ups, corporate business leaders, investors, and thought leaders to establish mutually beneficial relationships as they work to unlock the full value of emerging digital technologies.

As BIE expands and seeks to provide disruptive innovation services, we are seeking for people that are passionate about innovation, a fast pace environment and an entrepreneurial mindset to pursue new opportunities and build new businesses.

Job Description:

The Team Leader will oversee all efforts to build and manage ecosystems partnerships with startups, venture capital firms, across the United States. Additionally, the team leader will manage bespoke and larger program visits to various Bain offices across the US on leading industry and digital innovators. Finally, the Team Leader will help design and bring new products to market that help our clients navigate innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee hiring and management for AMERS BIE positions
  • Management includes positions: Innovation Associates, Partnership Leads, Corporate Incubation Specialists, and Event Coordinators
  • Develop training processes for new personnel
• Build, manage and drive a vibrant ecosystem of partners (e.g., startups, VCs, etc.)
  • Play a top of funnel role in identifying startups and solutions that we may want to be working into not only our Digital solutions but also in our classic casework
  • Maintain relationships with the venture community as well as thought leaders and influencers that we may invite to our immersion sessions and/or ask to serve as experts in some of our casework
  • Manage the team that puts on our Executive Digital Immersion sessions as well as our bespoke immersion and Board treks
• Coordinate with BIE team members and Bain Partners to design transformational experiences for clients that involve not just the ecosystem but also Bain Partners
  • Identify Bain Partners to participate in workshops and weigh-in on the agenda
  • Include the right ADAPT lab (i.e., design, development) to support the workshop
  • Think holistically about sets of activities to make clients’ visits to the Bay Area a success
• Provide support to Partners and other members of the consulting staff on selling and serving activities
  • Help to develop proposal materials
• Support new product development and deployment efforts as needed
  • The team is new so it is important to play a thought leadership role in shaping the set of offerings and developing the ‘playbook’ to support successful client delivery
  • Develop business cases and implementation plans for new product roll-out
• Manage creation of innovation tools, databases, and other projects as needed
  • Develop architecture for Salesforce platform
  • Identify other necessary tools for BIE tech stack

Qualifications:

• BA or equivalent undergraduate degree required with strong academic credentials; graduate degree would be a bonus
• Ideal candidates will have 5-10 years professional experience, including at least two at venture capital firm, in corporate venture capital, a startup, corporate innovation,or in entrepreneurship
• Strong interpersonal skills as you will be interfacing across many areas and levels of Bain
• Experience working in a strategy consulting environment a plus (Bain alumni ideal)
• Ability to maintain a structured working style in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Experience managing teams of people across functional areas
• Willingness to be flexible to meet the needs of the practice and case teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills – ability to communicate with senior business executives both in person and over the phone
• Strong problem solving and analytical abilities
• Extensive network in Bay Area and broader AMERS venture community
• Digital and tech expertise either from venture capital or start-up experience
• Experience in compelling events/workshops