Business Analyst, AI

Bain Capital Overview:

With approximately $185 billion of assets under management, Bain Capital is one of the world’s leading private investment firms, creating lasting impact in our partnership with our investors, companies, and communities. Today we have over 1,880 employees in 24 offices on four continents.

We partner differently to help people and companies embrace possibility and realize potential.

Founded as a private partnership in 1984, we have fostered a culture of innovation, entrepreneurialism, and agility, empowering our people to define and own their career trajectories. Today, our partnership approach allows us to pursue strategic platform growth and creates a shared commitment to cross-platform collaboration. Our enduring relationships with leading experts and executives extend outside our firm to include partners, counterparties, and community organizations. By connecting deep and diverse expertise across our global networks, we unlock breakthrough insight and unseen opportunity.

Our purpose, values, and commitment to lasting impact start with our people.

Our people are the heart of our advantage. We are intellectually curious, asking incisive questions, respectfully challenging one another, and striving to succeed together. Actively participating in high-stakes problem-solving is how we’ve grown and will continue to grow because we know that our impact is greater together.

Position Overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and resourceful business analyst to join our team, driving AI initiatives across all Bain Capital businesses. This role will report to Jordi Diaz, Head of Data Science and AI. The business analyst will play an important role within an interdisciplinary team that is working across multiple business units to create value with AI, by creating new tools and streamlining business processes.

This position provides a pathway to advance in product management, offering the opportunity to work alongside our Product Managers and gain invaluable skills and experience through hands on training and apprenticeship.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in ideation workshops for AI initiatives by preparing materials, taking comprehensive notes, summarizing key takeaways, and documenting action items and subsequent action plans.
• Document various aspects of AI initiatives, including business use cases, stakeholder roles, value at stake, sources of value, methodology, data sources, solution design, and feature roadmap. Manage a centralized documentation platform to ensure information is clear, structured, consistent, and accessible to key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Product Managers leading AI products by interviewing users, processing feedback, solving problems, prioritizing features, crafting roadmaps, and managing relationships with beta-testers and power users.
• Facilitate relationships with diverse stakeholders involved in AI initiatives and resolve issues that require cross-team collaboration.
• Develop communications regarding AI initiatives in various formats, such as memos, PowerPoint presentations, and blog posts.
• Research existing and emerging AI tools in the marketplace and evaluate their potential applicability to Bain Capital.
  
  

Skills:

• Strong interest in AI and its applications at Bain Capital and its portfolio companies.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Exceptional ability to structure and organize large amounts of information in an easily accessible format.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Resourceful and entrepreneurial mindset to achieve goals in ambiguous situations.
• Outstanding note-taking skills with attention to detail.
• Familiarity with Notion (or similar tools) is highly desired but not required.
• Very strong PowerPoint skills and ability to prepare clear and well-structured presentations.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, data science, finance, business administration or related field. (technical degree preferred)
• 1+ years of experience as business analyst at a major management consulting firm.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  
  

Why Join Us:

• Opportunity to work with a dynamic team at the forefront of AI innovation in the private investment industry.
• Exposure to a diverse range of industries and business challenges.
• Build your career in supportive work environment with ample opportunities for professional development and growth.
• Focused mentorship and training aimed at developing your skills and expertise in product management.
  
  

Bain Capital is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.