Expert Senior Associate Consultant, Tech Insights Group

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WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

Tech Insights Practice Overview

Technology Insights Group (TIG) (TIG) at Bain & Company is a rapidly growing global team of world-class technologists. We work with leading Private Equity (PE) investors and their tech-enabled portfolio companies to act as technical advisors in investment processes. We conduct product and technology due diligence engagements and value creation assignments, leveraging our extensive expertise in software and understanding of commercial environments specific to tech-enabled businesses. The Global Technology Insights Group team consists of technology savvy consultants and former CTOs and CPOs of leading global technology and software companies with decades of both advising and operating experience. The team has completed 400+ product and technology diligences and value creation engagements worldwide. 

Over the past 2 years, we supported our clients on some of the most visible technology investments in the US and Europe, including several of the Top 2022 and Top 2023 software deals. We conduct engagements spanning enterprise applications, vertical applications (HCIT, FinTech, EdTech), infrastructure software, cloud software, and tech enabled services (IT services, e-Commerce, AdTech).  Bain’s Tech Insights practice is a place where agile minds work powerfully and nimbly together, thriving on spirited discussion.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Joining Technology Insights Group (TIG) is an exciting opportunity to build a new and critical capability at Bain. You will work closely with the global Tech leadership and the regional private equity (PE) teams. 

At Bain, you will leverage your technology and consulting experience in actively contributing to projects, assessing key aspects of leading software companies for PE investors. 

You will help our clients strategically approach how technology will shape their businesses and solve some of the most challenging issues they face. Working alongside an outstanding group of individuals, you will develop and enhance your own technology expertise, commercial acumen, and analytical capabilities. Additionally, you will gain direct exposure to CEOs, Executives, and Private Equity professionals. Whether your long-term goal is to grow with us, join a PE/VC firm, or to start the next great technology company, you will build a fantastic foundation by joining our multi-talented and highly motivated team.

Responsibilities in Detail:

• Lead technology due diligence and value creation workstreams and analyses on behalf of PE investors targeting software businesses. 
• Actively contribute across the entire client engagement, from formulating the project scope to building and presenting the final report.  
• Drive and support the primary and secondary research efforts of the team; collect and analyze quantitative and qualitative data across a variety of sources. 
• Conduct hypothesis-led problem solving, communicate complex ideas, and approach problems strategically. 
• Effectively develop and communicate recommendations and insights to the project team, PE investors, and technology leaders. 
• Help to build and scale a new business, act as thought partner to Tech leadership on our growth and strategy. 
• Enhance Bain’s Tech DD’s brand through external reputation building and marketing efforts. 
• Invest in special initiatives and projects that help us scale the practice (ops/systems). 

ABOUT YOU

The Expert Senior Associate Consultant, Technology Due Diligence role requires passion for transformation, an entrepreneurial spirit, empathy, and technical aptitude. The following are highly valued: 

Passion for software 

• Demonstrate a passion for software as well as the tech industry more broadly (e.g., digital transformation, disruptive business models). 
• Ability to rapidly absorb and interpret technical information.  
• Inquisitive mindset and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment. 

Client service orientation and EQ 

• Passion for delivering high-impact client results in a fast-paced, evolving environment.  
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional agility, ability to interface across any level at Bain and client organizations. 
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills. 

Entrepreneurial mindset and teamwork  

• Desire to join a rapidly growing startup within a leading strategy consulting firm 
• Entrepreneurial, curious, creative, and innovative thinking. 
• Strong alignment with Bain operating principles. 
• Strong teamwork ethos and ability to work with team members with diverse skills and backgrounds in an inclusive fashion. 

Strong analytical capabilities and background 

• Analytical and data-driven mindset. 
• Aptitude for creative, quantitative, and qualitative problem solving. 
• Undergraduate degree from a top tier university in a relevant field (i.e., computer science, engineering, business management, information systems). 

ABOUT US

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future.  

Across 64 cities in 39 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a gold rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 2% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.