BCG Platinion | Senior AI Tech Consultant, Cybersecurity

What You’ll Do

As a Cybersecurity Senior AI Tech Consultant, you’ll be given end-to-end responsibility for an individual 'module' within a BCG client engagement and begin to develop specialized knowledge to help you solve our clients' problems. You'll work on a variety of cybersecurity and digital risk topics, applying generalist consulting skills to strategic cybersecurity & digital risk questions. We are looking for someone who can address our clients’ strategic, organizational, managerial, and operational issues using the most advanced cybersecurity methodologies, tools, and techniques.

• Technical experts. They are critical thinkers and have extensive cybersecurity expertise that drives innovative solutions.
• Business-minded storytellers. They leverage their deep-technical understanding of cybersecurity challenges and translate that into implications across the business value chain.
• Innovators. They understand and leverage cutting‑edge cybersecurity approaches and tactics to create customized solutions for clients.
• Change agents. They know how to make change happen across an organization. They can align and onboard teams to implement new cybersecurity process and toolsets. They embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to optimize their cybersecurity practices.
• Collaborative. They are interdisciplinary team players who seek alignment and establish relationships ranging from cross‑functional stakeholder groups to existing security teams.

You’re Good At

• Understanding the role technology plays in enabling businesses to execute their strategies and decomposing the cybersecurity implications of this relationship.
• Analyzing cybersecurity, requirements, and best practices into meaningful set of recommendations tailored to a client’s unique environment and circumstances.
• Communicating complex and technical concepts in a concise and business value‑centric written form.
• Implementing cybersecurity transformation and culture change initiatives.
• Conducting cybersecurity assessments including gap analysis and roadmap development in multiple contexts, including organizations, product development, and cloud security.
• Developing cybersecurity strategies, policies, processes, and procedures to protect clients’ internal infrastructure and their customers.
• Understanding data protection, data security, and privacy drivers that influence organizations today.
• Developing cybersecurity business strategies for technology product vendors that are integrated in the organizations overall business strategy and increase revenue and profits.
• Working with leadership teams, including facilitating board and senior management cybersecurity awareness workshops.
• Embedding product security and DevSecOps practices into the software development lifecycles, system designs, and IT architectures.
• Utilizing cyber risk quantification to reduce uncertainty around cyber risk and improve executive decision making.
• Creating and facilitating table‑top exercises.
• Delivering operational resilience through incident response, business continuity, and disaster recovery planning.

What You’ll Bring

• 2+ years of practical experience in cybersecurity consulting or cybersecurity management (with teams of five persons or more) in a variety of sectors and contexts.
• BS in cybersecurity, information systems, mathematics, natural sciences, business management, or similar degree.
• Hands‑on experience with, or extensive knowledge of some of the following:
  • Developing cybersecurity strategies or policies.
  • Quantifying and managing cybersecurity risk.
  • Designing, transforming, implementing, and running cybersecurity programs.
  • Assessing cybersecurity risks in AI platforms.
  • Integrating security into applications and systems.
  • Implementing cloud security.
  • Managing cybersecurity risk arising from third parties and the supply chain.
  • Designing / implementing identity and access management.
  • Developing and upskilling a cybersecurity workforce.
  • Delivering cybersecurity culture change, awareness, and training.
  • Designing continuous monitoring programs incorporating SIEM tools, APT hunting, implementing UBA, etc.
  • Designing / implementing vulnerability management, including conducting vulnerability assessments.
  • Performing penetration testing, incident management, BCP, and/or DRP.
• Broad knowledge of cybersecurity technologies throughout organizational and acquisition lifecycle.
• Working knowledge of at least two different cybersecurity frameworks:
  • NIST Cybersecurity Framework.
  • C2M2
  • NIST SP 800-53 and companion publications.
  • ISO/IEC 27000 family of standards, etc.
  • Cloud Security Alliance CCM.
• Team‑oriented attitude.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills.
• Results‑orientated mindset.
• Confidence and persuasiveness.
• Business‑fluent written and spoken English language skills.
• Willingness to travel around the globe to work with clients and BCG teams. At times, this role involves significant travel to client sites. The amount of travel will depend on client needs and nature of projects.
• Gen AI tool fluency (e.g., proven usage of GenAI such as ChatGPT, Claude) and validation of response.

Benefits

• An opportunity to work organically across disciplines and across BCG, we offer a unified and unrivaled opportunity that combines strategic thinking with hands‑on applications.
• A unique experience to work alongside a team of passionate and driven problem‑solvers with a mission to deliver innovative and valuable digital solutions in a supportive environment. We offer multiple career paths for the world’s best talent to have a real impact on business and society. As part of our team, you will benefit from the breadth and diversity of what we are doing today and where we are headed next. We count on your authenticity, exceptional work, and strong integrity. In return we are committed to supporting you in discovering the most fulfilling career journey possible—and unlocking your potential to advance the world.

Total compensation for this role includes base salary, annual discretionary performance bonus, contributions to BCG’s retirement program, and a market‑leading benefits package.

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