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As Director, Product Strategy & Roadmap, you will decide what ships and when, ground those decisions in user value and adoption evidence, and own the product experience and analytics that make the platform usable and valuable at scale.\nYou will bring rigour to prioritization, fluency in agentic AI, and the credibility to partner with engineering on how the roadmap gets built - without owning the technical implementation.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nRoadmap ownership: Maintaining and communicating a rolling 12-month roadmap with clear, evidence-based prioritization rationale\n\nStakeholder intake: Capturing, assessing, and prioritizing feature requests from business lines, users, and leadership against a consistent value bar\n\nUser experience: Owning the end-to-end product experience across the platform - how users discover, adopt, build with, and get value from it - including the self-service builder, templates, and connector catalog as part of a coherent whole.\n\nProduct analytics: Building and maintaining adoption dashboards, usage telemetry, and value-realization measurement to drive decisions\n\nDelivery partnership: Partnering with engineering on acceptance criteria, backlog, and delivery quality, staying engaged to protect the user outcome\n\nResponsible AI in practice: Embedding the safety, governance, and transparency standards set by the AI Group's Safety and Responsible AI function into the roadmap and release gates\n\nMarket awareness: Conducting competitive and market analysis to inform platform direction\n\nYou're our ideal candidate if you:\nHave 8+ years of product management experience, including 3+ in AI/ML products or enterprise platforms\n\nHave a strong product-experience and design sensibility - able to shape how users discover, adopt, and succeed with a product, not only what features it has.\n\nHave a deep working understanding of agentic AI: LLMs, tool-use, MCP connectors, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration\n\nHave owned and delivered a product roadmap with measurable adoption outcomes\n\nAre strongly analytical - able to define and track adoption metrics, build dashboards, and interpret telemetry\n\nHave the technical fluency to partner with engineers on architecture decisions without writing code\n\nHave agile delivery expertise: backlog grooming and acceptance-criteria definition\n\nHave financial services awareness, or the ability to develop it quickly - understanding banking end-users (advisors, analysts, operations staff) and their workflow needs\n\nNice to have:\nBachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, HCI, or a related discipline\n\nProduct management certification (AIPM, Pragmatic Institute, CSPO, or SAFe)\n\nExperience building developer platforms, APIs, or self-service builder tools\n\nFamiliarity with AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, OSFI E-23, or equivalent)\n\nExperience with prompt engineering, model evaluation, or fine-tuning in production\n\nBackground at a fintech, regtech, or major bank digital team\n\nWhat's in it for you:\nDrive AI transformation at one of Canada's largest and most respected financial institutions, with exposure to senior leadership across RBC\n\nBe part of a newly formed, high-impact function within RBC's AI Group alongside experienced transformation leaders\n\nA comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock options where applicable\n\nLeaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities\n\nAbility to make a difference and lasting impact from a local-to-global scale\n\nAbout the AI Group:\nRBC's AI Group is the AI accelerator for RBC, with a focus on driving the shift from early-stage AI projects to scaled, client outcomes that amplify the impact of RBC's people. In addition to helping scale the biggest AI opportunities at RBC, the AI Group is responsible for advancing research into emerging use cases across generative and agentic AI, while maintaining expertise in security, responsible AI and regulatory expectations.\nInclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment:\nRBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veterans status, Aboriginal/Native American status or any other legally-protected factors. Disability-related accommodations during the application process are available upon request.\n Job Skills\nBig Data Analytics, Client Counseling, Coaching Others, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Industry Knowledge, Machine Learning (ML), Results-Oriented, Software Engineering, Software Product DesignAdditional Job Details\nAddress:\nRBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTOCity:\nTorontoCountry:\nCanadaWork hours/week:\n37.5Employment Type:\nFull timePlatform:\nTECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONSJob Type:\nRegularPay Type:\nSalariedPosted Date:\n2026-08-18Application Deadline:\n2026-10-16Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above\nOur Employment Opportunities\nAt RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. 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