Job Description

Senior Manager, Product Strategy – Public Cloud

What is the opportunity?

This is an exciting opportunity to shape the Cloud Platform at RBC, building on leading-edge technologies, cloud-native development and innovative data services. As a Product Strategist, you will be part of a product-focused Public Cloud platform team, working with our user community across the enterprise to anticipate and define platform needs and features and gain feedback, as we build exciting new features in the cloud computing world.

What will you do?

• Contribute to the Cloud Product team vision and strategy, and help organize the Go To Market roadmap to realize our goals, and continue the market leadership

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Owner to align and support initiatives, including with Development (roadmap planning & execution), Customer Engagement (client pipeline and engagements), Marketing (campaigns, lead generation), Customer Success (adoption, customer health)

• Build and maintain a library of Strategy artifacts, including strategic framework presentations, opportunity assessments, and product battle cards

• Help provide product support to the user community either by directly responding to inquiries or developing support material

• Drive key business outcomes, measure, report on and leverage key performance indicators, using dashboards and reports to help measure operational metrics and prioritize work

• Collaborate with the Program Operations team and Product Managers to develop content for communications and reporting

What do you need to succeed? Must-have

• Excellent technical understanding of public and private cloud technologies

• Experience with modern enterprise software development

• Understanding of cloud-native architectures

• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling, Kubernetes, IaC approach in provisioning and managing IT infrastructure

• Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex information and illustrate the business value we provide to our stakeholders

• Commitment to learn, especially on technical details of technologies

• Ability to understand business needs and propose viable solutions that address them, regardless of whether or not the solutions are technical in nature

• Familiar with common agile development methodologies like Scrum and Kanban

Nice-to-have

• Agile Product Owner or Product Management experience

• Working experience in working in a technology or banking-related field

• Experience building cloud native applications or previous software development experience

• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, Mural and/or Lucidchart

• Experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible

• Experience with database technologies such Microsoft SQL Server, Postgres, MongoDB

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge of designing the best cloud platform and enabling our developers to be extremely productive. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• 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

• Flexible work/life balance options

• Opportunities to do challenging work

• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

RBC requires as a condition of employment that all successful candidates in the United States and Canada be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to their start date, and may require proof of the same. Reasonable accommodation is available where required by law.

RBC exige, à titre de condition d'emploi, que tous les candidats retenus aux États-Unis ou au Canada soient entièrement vaccinés contre la COVID-19 avant leur date d'entrée en fonction. Il est possible qu'ils aient à présenter une preuve vaccinale. Des mesures raisonnables d'adaptation sont offertes lorsque la loi l'exige

Job Summary

Designs new products or changes to existing products. Applies extensive, in-depth knowledge, skills, and practices to perform complex assignments