Global L&D Innovation Director

As the Global L&D Innovation Director, you will lead the innovation engine within BCG's Global Learning & Development Strategy & Transformation Office. Reporting to the Global L&D Strategy & Transformation Senior Director, you will run a ringfenced innovation team focused on identifying, prototyping, and PoC testing the next generation of online learning experiences for BCG. You will be a critical leader in making that roadmap real, helping stand up the innovation team and tech squad, pilot adaptive learning, develop agentic learning prototypes to scale new products and experiences over time. You will lead work across three connected domains. Innovation portfolio management - shaping the intake, prioritization, sequencing, governance, and delivery discipline for a portfolio of high-priority L&D innovation initiatives. Experimentation and product development - leading the development and validation of new audience-facing learning experiences, products, formats, and AI-enabled solutions. Implementation and scaling - partnering across L&D, Talent, IT/Product, and business stakeholders to move successful pilots into durable products, programs, platforms, or operating routines. 10+ years of experience in innovation, product management, digital transformation, learning transformation, talent/capability building, strategy execution, or enterprise program leadership. Experience leading teams in complex, global, matrixed environments, with a strong track record of coaching, developing, and mobilizing talent. Demonstrated ability to move work from ideation through design, build, pilot and value proof. Experience in designing innovation with scale in mind, anticipating the technical, integration, and operating requirements needed to move successful pilots into production and enable a smooth handover to Product and IT. Strong technology literacy, including comfort working with AI-enabled tools, digital products, workflow automation, learning platforms, or data-enabled solutions. Experience managing a portfolio of initiatives with competing priorities, limited resources, and senior stakeholder visibility. Strong stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence senior leaders, align cross-functional partners, and manage tradeoffs with sound judgment. Experience working with agile, product-led, design-thinking, test-and-learn, or rapid prototyping approaches. Strong problem-solving and structured thinking, with the ability to bring clarity to ambiguous or fast-changing topics. Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate technical or conceptual ideas into clear business and learning implications. Comfort operating at both strategic and executional levels - you can set direction and personally help get the work done. Experience in L&D, talent, capability building, HR transformation, or professional services is preferred, but not required for candidates with strong innovation, product, or transformation experience. Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred. You will report to the Global L&D Strategy & Transformation Senior Director and lead the innovation team within the Global L&D Strategy & Transformation Office. Your direct leadership scope will include the ringfenced innovation team responsible for developing and validating new learning experiences, products, formats, AI-enabled workflows, and agentic/adaptive prototypes. Learning Architecture and Curriculum teams to ensure successful pilots can be embedded into learning journeys and sustained beyond the innovation team. Learning Product and Operations teams to transition proven solutions into scalable delivery models, platforms, processes, and operating routines. Together, you will help BCG build a faster, more adaptive, more technology-enabled learning ecosystem - one that strengthens our world-class apprenticeship and faculty-led learning while creating scalable, personalized, data-informed learning experiences for the future. Running a high-quality innovation portfolio - You bring structure to fast-moving work. You can manage intake, prioritization, resourcing, stage gates, decision rights, dependencies, risks, and handoffs without slowing the team down. Leading agile, multidisciplinary teams - You know how to lead teams that may include a mix of learning designers, product owners, technologists, data and analytics colleagues, AI specialists, vendors, and business SMEs. Collaborating across a complex ecosystem - You can operate in a global, matrixed environment and build strong partnerships with L&D Business Partners, Learning Architecture, Product and Operations, Talent, HR, IT, Product, and senior business stakeholders. Managing stakeholders with confidence and judgment - You know how to shape demand, negotiate tradeoffs, communicate progress, surface decisions, and keep stakeholders aligned across seniority levels and functions. You think ahead about change management, communications, enablement, measurement, and integration into existing workflows. For this role, you will generally be expected to work from a BCG office or in person with clients on a regular basis (typically around 50% of working time), depending on business needs and in line with local policies and practices.