Data Scientist, 新卒/New Graduate 2028, BCG X, Japan

## 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. ## We Are BCG X We're a diverse team of more than 3,000 tech experts united by a drive to make a difference. Working across industries and disciplines, we combine our experience and expertise to tackle the biggest challenges faced by society today. We go beyond what was once thought possible, creating new and innovative solutions to the world's most complex problems. Leveraging BCG's global network and partnerships with leading organizations, BCG X provides a stable ecosystem for talent to build game-changing businesses, products, and services from the ground up, all while growing their career. Together, we strive to create solutions that will positively impact the lives of millions. ## What You'll Do BCG X is a team of technology and digital design experts at Boston Consulting Group, a global strategy consulting firm. We are responsible for business and product building leveraging technology and data. We combine the insights of strategic consulting with advanced expertise in AI, software engineering, product development, and UX design to support client transformation from concept development to implementation and scaling. ### Role In this position, you will act as a data science expert, facing diverse industry clients and leading enterprise-wide transformation based on data for important management issues directly under CxOs. You will not stop at model development; you will consistently promote from issue definition, hypothesis design, and analysis design to model construction, business implementation, and organizational/process establishment, committing to the creation of business impact that leads to sustainable competitive advantage. ### Specific Duties * Collaborate with diverse experts such as strategic consultants, product managers, engineers, and designers to structure management issues and design analytics strategies with a view to business implementation and user value creation. * Conduct advanced analysis and model development using machine learning, mathematical optimization, and statistical modeling. * Promote business transformation and new business creation projects leveraging Generative AI/LLM. * Design and implement AI agents and data products, as well as scale deployment. * Build scalable architecture including MLOps and data foundation design. * Lead the execution of decision-making and transformation actions by sublimating analysis results into implications at the management level. ### Project Examples * Launch of new digital businesses leveraging Generative AI * Advanced optimization of supply chains * Advanced financial risk modeling * Advanced marketing and price optimization * Design and execution of enterprise-wide AI transformation ## What You'll Bring ### Mandatory Requirements * This position is targeted at fresh graduates who do not have full-time work experience or are currently enrolled in graduate school. Please apply to the Mid-Career Data Scientist position if you have work experience. * Expected to complete a Master's or Doctoral degree in a related field between September 2027 and August 2028. * Those expected to graduate from undergraduate studies are not eligible. * Python development experience. * Modeling experience using machine learning. * Experience in research or internships in related fields. * English proficiency (at least conversational level). * If you wish to apply and are expected to graduate from graduate school before September 2027, please contact the recruitment office ([email protected]). ### Desired Skills/Personality * Ability to apply advanced analytics methods to real business, promoting from concept to implementation and result creation. * Orientation to capture issues from both analytics and business perspectives and influence upstream decision-making. * Ability to structure ambiguous and complex management issues and set essential questions. * Ability to define issues and priorities independently and proactively promote projects. * Ability to demonstrate expertise in a cross-functional team and engage others. * Ability to structure and articulate complex analysis results in a way that is understandable to management and non-experts. * Curiosity about the latest technologies and architecture and the ability to learn continuously. ## Career Development Opportunities and Experience Gained ### Career Development Opportunities and Experience Gained * Grow from an analyst to a data scientist who drives decision-making. * Data Scientists at BCG X face management issues directly under CxOs, consistently engaging from data analysis to deriving implications and strategy formulation, and deeply influencing decision-making. * A major attraction is the ability to connect analytics results to corporate and business strategy and drive upstream decision-making with data. * You can grow into an entity that moves management with data as a weapon, rather than just being an analyst. ### Experience Gained * Involvement in the management agenda through direct dialogue with CxOs. * Experience working on diverse themes and data across industries. * Acquisition of upstream design capabilities to connect analysis results to strategy and business plans. * Participation in the design of data utilization organizations and business process transformation. * Experience launching AI products and data-driven businesses. ### Technical Growth Opportunities * BCG X places importance on the balance between catching up with cutting-edge technology and implementation opportunities. * Challenges to implement cutting-edge themes such as Generative AI, Agentic AI, and Physical AI into real business. * Exploration and application expansion of element technologies such as LLM. * Support for participation in external training and conferences. * A culture of rapidly verifying promising technologies and reflecting them into projects and products. ## Nice to Have * Experience developing applications leveraging LLM. * Experience in mathematical optimization or operations research. * Experience in natural language processing, image recognition, or speech recognition. * Experience in marketing analytics or BI/DWH. * Experience in software development or DevOps. * English proficiency (business level or above). ## Additional Info ### Application Method Please submit your Resume and the following content in the Resume field of your Profile. The format is free. * Technical Skills * Overview of major and research * If available, activity results related to the applied position (internships, etc.) * Note: Since only one file can be uploaded, if you submit multiple documents, please upload them combined into one file and click Apply. * For those with Kanji names, please enter your name in Kanji in the first/last name fields. * For education history, please enter in Kanji if Kanji representation is available. * If you cannot click the Apply button, please check that a resume/CV is uploaded by selecting "Type of Attachment" as "resume" from the Profile tab. ### Selection Process * Document screening * Technical test * Multiple interviews ### Work Location * Tokyo Office ### Work Hours * Flexible time system ### Benefits * As per company regulations ### Welfare Benefits * Social insurance complete * Retirement bonus system ### Training System * Various trainings (Domestic/Overseas) * Knowledge sharing programs (Domestic/Overseas) * Overseas office dispatch system, etc. ### Holidays/Vacation * Two days off per week (Saturday/Sunday) * Public holidays * Year-end/New Year vacation * Annual paid leave * Summer vacation * Bereavement vacation * Other special vacations (maternity/paternity leave, childcare leave, etc.) 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. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify. 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. BCG is an E - Verify Employer. Click here for more information on E-Verify.