Royal Bank of Canada

Director, Media & Analytics, RBCx

Royal Bank of Canada$120K — $150K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years in marketing analytics or performance media.
  • Hands-on proficiency with SQL, Python, and tag management systems.
  • Experience managing multi-brand paid media with budget accountability.
  • Strong knowledge of attribution and experimental design methodologies.
  • Familiar with AI/ML marketing applications like predictive modeling and automated bidding.
  • Exceptional communication skills for technical and executive audiences.
  • Preferred experience in the financial services or regulated industries.

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategic framework for marketing measurement across digital channels.
  • Develop measurement infrastructure for actionable insights and tracking solutions.
  • Establish budget allocation frameworks linking capital deployment to ROI.
  • Design a continuous testing roadmap for campaign optimization.
  • Define methodologies to evaluate marketing impact rigorously.
  • Lead the strategic approach to A/B and multivariate testing for customer conversion.
  • Model a test-and-learn culture, translating insights into business strategies.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to make a lasting impact.
  • Work within a dynamic, collaborative, and high-performing team.
  • Engage in challenging work that fosters growth.
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As Director, Media and Analytics, you will own our measurement infrastructure and paid media strategy across the RBCx practice. You'll oversee a unified team of analysts and media specialists, driving data-driven decisions from campaign strategy through real-time optimization. This role demands hands-on technical expertise combined with strategic capital deployment accountability.

This role works in the office 3 to 4 days a week.

What will you do?

Marketing Performance & Capital Deployment
  • Own the strategic framework for how our brands measure and optimize marketing effectiveness across all digital channels (paid search, social, programmatic, video, affiliate)
  • Develop measurement infrastructure strategy-tagging architecture, data pipelines, tracking solutions (GTM, server-side tagging), and platform health across our toolsets-that enables real-time, actionable insights
  • Establish data-driven budget allocation frameworks that tie capital deployment to measurable outcomes and ROI
  • Design the continuous testing and experimentation roadmap covering creative performance, audience targeting, bidding strategies, landing page effectiveness, and regional media mix
  • Define rigorous evaluation methodologies (geo-lift, brand lift, holdout experiments, MMM) to quantify marketing impact and inform strategic investments
  • Build strategic connectivity with RBC's advanced analytics and data engineering functions to leverage enterprise capabilities


Optimization & Experimentation
  • Lead the strategic approach to A/B testing, multivariate experiments, and audience segmentation that drives conversion improvement and customer lifetime value
  • Partner with product, engineering, and marketing teams to embed optimization into product development and campaign execution
  • Establish experimentation standards, statistical rigor, and best practices that ensure confidence in decision-making
  • Translate experiment insights into business strategy and competitive advantage
  • Streamline reporting workflows and adopt emerging tools (RBC Lumina, LLMs, modern data stack solutions) to accelerate time-to-insight
  • Model a test-and-learn culture and translate complex analytics into business-ready narratives for relevant teams and stakeholders


Team Leadership
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5-7 managers and senior managers; set clear expectations, drive career growth, and build a high-performance culture

  • Contribute to documentation, quality control, and enablement materials for BI assets and reporting


What do you need to succeed?

Required Qualifications
  • 8-12 years in marketing analytics, performance media, or combined discipline
  • Hands-on proficiency: SQL, Python, tag management systems, API integrations
  • Proven experience managing multi-brand paid media at scale with budget accountability
  • Strong expertise in attribution, incrementality testing, statistical significance, and experimental design
  • Experience with AI/ML applications in marketing (predictive modeling, propensity scoring, automated bidding)
  • Exceptional communication across technical and executive audiences
  • Financial services or regulated industry experience is preferred


What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities to do challenging work


Job Skills
API Integration, Business Storytelling, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Driven Strategy, Evaluation Methodology, Executive Presenting, Experimental Analysis, Financial Services, Landing Page Optimization, Marketing Analytics, Multivariate Testing, People Leadership, Python (Programming Language), Stakeholder Management, Structured Query Language (SQL), Tag Management Systems

Additional Job Details

Address:

20 KING ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-09

Application Deadline:

2026-07-25
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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