Royal Bank of Canada

Director, Product Strategy & Roadmap

Royal Bank of Canada$125K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product management experience, with 3+ years specifically in AI/ML products or enterprise platforms.
  • Strong product-experience and design sensibility to enhance user discovery and product success.
  • Deep understanding of agentic AI technologies and concepts like LLMs and multi-agent orchestration.
  • Proven track record in delivering product roadmaps achieving measurable adoption outcomes.
  • Analytical skills to define adoption metrics and build insightful dashboards.
  • Technical fluency to collaborate effectively with engineers on architectural decisions without coding.
  • Agile delivery expertise in backlog management and defining acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and communicate a clear 12-month product roadmap with prioritization rationale.
  • Capture and prioritize feature requests from various stakeholders based on user value.
  • Own the entire product experience, ensuring user accessibility and value from various platform components.
  • Build and manage analytics to drive product decisions based on adoption and usage data.
  • Collaborate with engineering on acceptance criteria and delivery quality to protect user outcomes.
  • Integrate safety and governance standards into the product development process.
  • Conduct competitive analysis to inform the platform's strategic direction.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead AI transformation at a major Canadian financial institution.
  • Involvement in a high-impact function within RBC's AI Group.
  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program, including bonuses and flexible benefits.
  • Supportive leadership focused on professional development.
  • Chance to make a significant impact at both local and global scales.
Full Job Description
Job Description

What's the opportunity?

We're looking for a product leader to own the roadmap for RBC's internal agentic AI platform end-to-end - from intake and prioritization through delivery and measurement. 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.

You 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.

Your responsibilities will include:
  • Roadmap ownership: Maintaining and communicating a rolling 12-month roadmap with clear, evidence-based prioritization rationale
  • Stakeholder intake: Capturing, assessing, and prioritizing feature requests from business lines, users, and leadership against a consistent value bar
  • User 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.
  • Product analytics: Building and maintaining adoption dashboards, usage telemetry, and value-realization measurement to drive decisions
  • Delivery partnership: Partnering with engineering on acceptance criteria, backlog, and delivery quality, staying engaged to protect the user outcome
  • Responsible 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
  • Market awareness: Conducting competitive and market analysis to inform platform direction


You're our ideal candidate if you:
  • Have 8+ years of product management experience, including 3+ in AI/ML products or enterprise platforms
  • Have 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.
  • Have a deep working understanding of agentic AI: LLMs, tool-use, MCP connectors, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration
  • Have owned and delivered a product roadmap with measurable adoption outcomes
  • Are strongly analytical - able to define and track adoption metrics, build dashboards, and interpret telemetry
  • Have the technical fluency to partner with engineers on architecture decisions without writing code
  • Have agile delivery expertise: backlog grooming and acceptance-criteria definition
  • Have financial services awareness, or the ability to develop it quickly - understanding banking end-users (advisors, analysts, operations staff) and their workflow needs


Nice to have:
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, HCI, or a related discipline
  • Product management certification (AIPM, Pragmatic Institute, CSPO, or SAFe)
  • Experience building developer platforms, APIs, or self-service builder tools
  • Familiarity with AI governance frameworks (NIST AI RMF, OSFI E-23, or equivalent)
  • Experience with prompt engineering, model evaluation, or fine-tuning in production
  • Background at a fintech, regtech, or major bank digital team


What's in it for you:
  • Drive AI transformation at one of Canada's largest and most respected financial institutions, with exposure to senior leadership across RBC
  • Be part of a newly formed, high-impact function within RBC's AI Group alongside experienced transformation leaders
  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock options where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact from a local-to-global scale


About the AI Group:

RBC'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.

Job Skills
Big Data Analytics, Client Counseling, Coaching Others, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Industry Knowledge, Machine Learning (ML), Results-Oriented, Software Engineering, Software Product Design

Additional Job Details

Address:

RBC WATERPARK PLACE, 88 QUEENS QUAY W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-08-18

Application Deadline:

2026-09-10
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.

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