Royal Bank of Canada

Senior Manager Digital Product Design - Design Systems

Royal Bank of Canada$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of design experience, including 3-5 years in leadership roles
  • Proficiency with design systems and collaboration with engineering teams
  • Expertise in design and prototyping tools like Figma
  • Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and system design principles
  • Analytical and systematic thinker comfortable with ambiguity
  • Project management skills focused on resource planning and delivery
  • Experience in coaching and mentoring design team members

Responsibilities

  • Lead product design direction for a scalable mobile native design system
  • Formulate and validate design hypotheses via iterative MVP releases
  • Promote Agile methodologies and test-and-learn practices
  • Facilitate stakeholder presentations and workshops on product objectives
  • Empower team members by delegating authority and removing obstacles
  • Establish regular check-in cadences to support team autonomy
  • Provide leadership development and mentorship through consistent feedback

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Support for professional development through coaching opportunities
  • Ability to make a significant, positive impact
  • Collaborative and high-performing work environment
  • World-class training program in financial services
  • Challenging work opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Description

As a leader of the Design System team, you will make decisions to empower your team to make work efficient, effective, and enjoyable. You will provide thought leadership in order to set up a high-performing product design team and operationalize and organize the team within an Agile framework in a scrum or lean UX model. You will optimize the effectiveness of the design team over time within a collaborative, cross-functional, matrixed enterprise environment.

What will you do?
  • Provide product design direction & oversight of a mobile native design system product at scale
  • Formulate and validate design hypotheses through iterative releases of MVP to align objectives with the needs of internal design and engineering teams
  • Align to Agile methodology and promote a test-and-learn approach to build, deliver, and refine the right products for the right audiences in the right ways
  • Facilitate demos, presentations, workshops, and stakeholder sessions with all partners, including business, product, technology, risk, legal, etc. around product objectives and priorities
  • Empower a team to succeed with a shared vision; delegating authority, and removing obstacles that hinder progress
  • Establish a cadence for regular check-ins and empower your team to manage the day-to-day tasks, checking in often enough to ensure they are on track to deliver value against our business objectives without micro-managing
  • Provide career, leadership development, coaching, and guidance through recurring team and one-on-one check-ins. Manage, mentor, motivate, lead, and inspire the team to constantly deliver excellence in performance and in behaviors aligned with the Leadership Model


What do you need to succeed? Must-have:
  • At least 10 years of experience as a designer with a minimum of 3-5 years experience leading teams and complex digital projects
  • Experience with design systems and working closely with engineering partners
  • Highly skilled in modern design, and prototyping tools such as Figma
  • Familiarity of HTML/CSS, JavaScript with a solid understanding of system design
  • A systematic thinker who seeks patterns and is comfortable with ambiguity
  • Project management skills to plan, and analyze resources in order to meet delivery requirements
  • Experience coaching and mentoring team members


Nice to have:
  • Industry experience with Financial Institutions
  • Comfortable with various front-end technology platforms


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • A world-class training program in financial services
  • Opportunities to do challenging work

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Job Skills
Commercial Acumen, Content Strategy Development, Decision Making, Product Development Methodology, Product Services, User Experience (UX) Design, User Experience (UX) Research, User Interface (UI) 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:

PERSONAL & COMMERCIAL BANKING

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-15

Application Deadline:

2026-07-29
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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