BCG X AI Factory Staffing Senior Specialist

Who We Are

Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.

To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures-and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.

What You'll Do

We're looking for an experienced staffing professional to join BCG as an AI Factory (AIF) Staffing Senior Specialist. In this role, you'll apply deep knowledge of talent profiles and business needs to recommend key recruiting and staffing decisions across multiple disciplines, collaborating with BCG's AI Factory team, Talent Management, CDAs, and the wider staffing team to assign talent to Applied AI build work and new practice-area business efforts. You'll provide strategic staffing recommendations grounded in talent skill sets, teaming insights, and commercial priorities, and maintain a clear view of how employees are deployed so you can proactively solve resourcing needs for forecasted projects.

Staffing & resourcing

• Optimize deployment of BCG resources across the AI Factory's resource pools (e.g., CT, AIF, BCG X, Platinion), balancing business needs with each person's Career Development objectives and long-term goals
• Orchestrate resourcing across regions and practice areas for the AI Factory, balancing speed, capability fit, cost, and sustainability
• Maintain an acute awareness of the business environment and project priorities; communicate project opportunities to individuals and engage senior stakeholders and team leadership on staffing decisions
• Identify talent pools and source high-quality active and passive candidates; build pipelines to fill current and future roles
• Support and coordinate internal initiatives and networks that strengthen the talent pipeline

Relationships & advisory

• Be the go-to person for BCG talent involved in AI Factory work: understand development needs and staffing preferences, and discuss upcoming project opportunities
• Advise on staffing choices that balance business needs with individual preferences wherever possible
• Communicate staffing decisions and the rationale behind them; apply and enforce staffing policies and expectations
• Own the staffing process end-to-end, collaborating with fellow staffers to reach the best overall solution
• Create visibility into current and planned resource allocation, applying a diversity, fairness, and equity lens across people with different backgrounds and experiences
• Maintain accurate tools, reporting, and trackers covering project assignments, training, and time off; contribute to ongoing improvement of staffing processes and systems

Cross-functional collaboration

• Partner with the wider staffing and HR team to keep staff data accurate e.g., project assignments, training, recruiting, and time off
• Provide input to BCG HR and relevant stakeholders on employee matters as needed
• Work with talent team and finance on reporting of assigned resources, including timesheet reviews, case extensions, and staying current on new business wins

You're Good At

• Performing successfully in a fast-paced, global, intellectually intense, service-oriented environment, in keeping with BCG's values and culture
• Communicating with confidence and building positive, productive working relationships across all organizational levels, inside and outside BCG
• Proactively solving problems and influencing multiple stakeholders with a new point of view, while staying flexible as new information or constraints emerge
• Operating with high integrity, tact, and a positive attitude, and maintaining absolute confidentiality
• Resolving conflict, delivering difficult messages, and addressing people-related issues with excellent judgment, including knowing when to escalate
• Bringing strong administrative and organizational skills, with meticulous attention to detail across complex staffing processes
• Working as an active, autonomous team player who is comfortable managing ambiguity and self-motivated

What You'll Bring

• Typically 4-6 years of experience in professional or technology services, ideally in staffing, talent management, workforce planning, people, or recruiting functions
• Bachelor's degree strongly preferred, or equivalent relevant work experience
• Strong understanding of BCG's staffing processes, people and CD model, and matrix ways of working (prior BCG experience strongly preferred)
• Experience coordinating staffing (ideally across regions and/or portfolios)
• Interest in AI, digital, and technology-enabled transformation topics
• Strong analytical, organizational, and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; English fluency required
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, along with proficiency using AI tools in day-to-day work

Who You'll Work With

You'll join the AI Factory People & Staffing team, collaborating closely with local BCG staffing, HR and Recruiting teams on talent and pipeline strategy. You'll build relationships across BCG's consulting and BST talent, Global staffers, the CDC, Finance, and the AI Factory leadership team.

Additional info

This role supports Project Helix, a BCG-wide initiative to design and scale AI-native workflows and offers across practice areas for BCG's agentic transformation. Teams are drawn from across BCG's business units to work on each practice area's top priorities with the goal of reducing time-to-output from weeks for a case team to hours with agentic tools. As part of this team, you'll help ensure the right people are staffed to Project Helix work as it scales.

This role is posted in London, however, we also want to encourage candidates in Europe to apply, who believe they have strong alignments to this role.

Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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