Principal Technical Product Manager, Evaluations & Governance

Opportunity

Product Strategy and Roadmap

• Own end-to-end product strategy and a multi-year roadmap for evaluations and governance.
• Prioritize and sequence the portfolio against business risk, regulatory needs, and platform adoption.
• Lead discovery and requirements definition with engineering, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Evaluate build, buy, and partner options for evaluation and governance tooling.

Delivery Partnership

• Partner with engineering and architecture leadership on feasibility, sequencing, and trade-offs.
• Work with project management to turn prioritized requirements into a funded and scheduled program of work.
• Stay engaged through delivery, resolving scope questions and replanning trade-offs.

Stakeholder and Business Engagement

• Represent the capability area to risk, audit, compliance, architecture, governance, and vendor stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary product voice to senior leadership on the health and trajectory of the capability area.
• Partner with adjacent product and engineering leaders so requirements are considered early.

Launch, Value, and People Leadership

• Define launch value messaging, target user personas, success metrics, and business-case inputs.
• Build, mentor, and lead product managers focused on evaluations and governance.
• Foster consistent discovery, prioritization, iterative delivery, user understanding, and data-backed decision-making.

Required Qualifications

• At least 10 years of product management experience, including several years in risk, compliance, safety, or governance-oriented technology.
• Experience delivering production AI/ML systems in an enterprise environment is required.
• Hands-on LLM API integration and direct ownership of AI testing, evaluation, or monitoring for quality and risk are required.
• Regulated-industry experience with audit and regulatory review exposure is required.
• Technical fluency in system design, APIs, data pipelines, vector databases, RAG architecture, and observability is required.
• A technical university degree or equivalent experience is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing product managers is preferred.
• Experience translating regulatory or audit requirements into automated processes or tooling is preferred.
• Experience with AI safety, model risk management, automated AI evaluation, observability platforms, or AI-specific regulatory frameworks is preferred.
• Experience establishing a new function in a scaling organization is preferred.

About the AI Group

Rewards and Culture

• RBC offers a comprehensive total rewards program with bonuses and flexible benefits.
• The role includes development support, challenging work, and flexible work-life balance options.
• RBC describes the team as collaborative, progressive, and high-performing.

Job Details

• The listed work location is RBC WaterPark Place in Toronto, Canada.
• The role is listed as full time, regular, and salaried with 37.5 work hours per week.