Director, AI Platform Strategy & Roadmap

RBC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Stock options

Flexible benefits

Job summary

RBC is seeking a Director of Product Strategy & Roadmap to own the end-to-end roadmap for RBC's internal agentic AI platform. You will decide what ships and when, grounding decisions in user value and adoption evidence, and own the product experience and analytics that scale usability.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in product management, including 3+ in AI/ML, with strong design sensibility and the ability to partner with engineering on architecture without coding.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including 3+ in AI/ML products or enterprise platforms.
• Strong product experience and design sensibility shaping how users discover, adopt and succeed with a product.
• Deep working understanding of agentic AI: LLMs, tool-use, MCP connectors, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Owned and delivered a product roadmap with measurable adoption outcomes.
• Analytical: define and track adoption metrics, build dashboards, interpret telemetry.
• Technical fluency to partner with engineers on architecture decisions without coding.
• Agile delivery expertise: backlog grooming and acceptance criteria.
• Financial services awareness or ability to develop it quickly—understanding banking workflows

Responsibilities

• Roadmap ownership: maintain a rolling 12-month roadmap with evidence-based prioritization.
• Stakeholder intake: capture, assess, and prioritize feature requests against a value bar.
• Own end-to-end product experience across the platform, including self-service builder, templates, and connector catalog.
• Build and maintain adoption dashboards, usage telemetry, and value realization metrics.
• Partner with engineering on acceptance criteria, backlog, and delivery quality.
• Embed AI safety, governance, and transparency standards into the roadmap and release gates.
• Conduct competitive and market analysis to inform platform direction

Skills

Roadmap ownership

Stakeholder management

AI/ML product

Analytics & dashboards

User experience design

Technical collaboration

Agile delivery

Financial services awareness

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering/Business

PM certification (AIPM/Pragmatic/CSPO/SAFe)

Job description

RBC is seeking a Director of Product Strategy & Roadmap to own the end-to-end roadmap for RBC's internal agentic AI platform. You will decide what ships and when, grounding decisions in user value and adoption evidence, and own the product experience and analytics that scale usability.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in product management, including 3+ in AI/ML, with strong design sensibility and the ability to partner with engineering on architecture without coding.