Technical Program Manager - Generative AI

Job Description

What's the opportunity?We're looking for a Technical Program Manager who will work with Program Leads to drive the execution of complex AI initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring seamless coordination between technical development and business objectives.Your responsibilities include:

• Cross-functional alignment: Coordinate and maintain strategic alignment on priorities between multiple engineering teams, product managers, data scientists, and senior stakeholders to ensure unified execution toward common goals

• End-to-end program delivery: Manage the lifecycle of multiple AI product workstreams from initial conception through technical development, testing, and production deployment, ensuring quality deliverables and timely execution

• Strategic communication: Report comprehensive team updates, project milestones, and risk assessments on weekly and monthly cadences to leadership and stakeholders, providing clear visibility into program health and progress

• Program leadership: Serve as the primary point of contact and escalation pathway for all program-related inquiries, decisions, and strategic communications across the organization

• Innovation and efficiency: Leverage or develop internally facing AI-powered productivity tools and dashboards that streamline team communication, facilitate reporting processes, and enhance overall program visibility

You're our ideal candidate if you have:

• Exceptional communication abilities: Demonstrated strength in communicating complex technical concepts to diverse audiences including individual contributors, cross-functional teams, and C-level executives, with proven ability to facilitate productive discussions across all organizational levels

• Gen-AI technical fluency: Comprehensive understanding of generative AI capabilities, limitations, and high level implementation strategies, with the ability to engage in technical discussions and drive informed decision-making across multiple engineering teams

• Excellent organizational acumen: Outstanding organizational skills combined with advanced proficiency in modern productivity tools and project management platforms, enabling effective coordination and progress tracking in dynamic, fast-paced environments

• Technical versatility: Hands-on experience building internal tools with the assistance of Gen-AI powered IDE and low code environments, for the purpose of using technology to directly support program management deliverables and stakeholder reporting requirements

What's in it for you?Be part of an elite team working at the forefront of generative AI innovation in Capital Markets, where you'll shape the future of financial technology while advancing your career in one of the industry's most exciting and rapidly evolving domains.About RBC BorealisRBC Borealis is the driving force behind Royal Bank of Canada’s AI and data innovation. As part of Canada’s largest financial institution, we bring together a team of architects, engineers, scientists, and product experts on a mission to revolutionize finance through world-class research, solutions, and a resilient data platform. With locations across Toronto, Waterloo, Montreal, Calgary, and Vancouver, we’re at the forefront of AI research and platform development. With a focus on cutting-edge research in areas like time series forecasting, causal machine learning, and responsible AI, we are seamlessly integrating AI research and data engineering, to solve critical challenges in the financial industry. We are building intelligent, and scalable, data-driven solutions that will help communities thrive and drive innovation for our customers across the bank.