Product Owner, Data and AI

Job Description
What is the opportunity?
At RBC Insurance, we are transforming how Data and AI shaped the way we serve clients, advisors, and operations teams across our value chain. From data platforms to AI copilots from underwriting to claims, our Data and AI product team helps design and deliver the workflows and insights that drive impact across the business.

As a Product Owner, you will join a growing team of product professionals dedicated to building high-quality, scalable, and meaningful Data and AI solutions. This role is ideal for someone with a few years of relevant experience, ready to deepen their product craft, build confidence in execution, and learn how to shape outcomes through discovery, stakeholder alignment, and delivery excellence.

You will support squads end-to-end, contributing to discovery, owning and refining your backlog, and helping move ideas from concept to production. You will also gain hands-on exposure to modern data platforms and emerging LLM-based AI systems.

What will you do?

• Support product managers to understand business needs, shape problem statements, and translate ideas into clear user stories and delivery requirements.
• Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning, and other agile rituals in collaboration with a Scrum Master, ensuring priorities are clear and delivery is aligned to outcomes.
• Collaborate with technology, engineering, analytics, data science, governance and business stakeholders to define MVPs, manage trade-offs, and enable delivery.
• Participate to continuous discovery approach by setting workshops, user interviews, solution framing, and testing sessions.
• Contribute to initiative planning, roadmap maintenance, and cross squad coordination.
• Track and communicate delivery progress, risks, and outcomes across stakeholders.
• Work closely with analysts and engineers to support product performance tracking and usage insights.
• Help maintain and develop product artifacts and documentation in JIRA, Confluence, and team spaces.

What will you need to succeed?
Must have

• 3 to 6 years of relevant experience in product management, business analysis or a delivery role within a data heavy or digital product environment.
• Exposure to Data or AI product development, ideally with experience working on modern data platforms (i.e., Snowflake, Databricks, GCP), or applied ML/AI use cases.
• Strong foundation in Agile delivery, including backlog management, refinement and sprint planning.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to distill complex inputs into clear, actionable requirements.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and help clarify needs across business, technical and operational teams.
• Comfortable working across cross-functional squads and managing competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Exposure to LLMs, prompt engineering, or agentic AI systems.
• Experience supporting product discovery or continuous delivery in insurance, financial services, or B2B SaaS.
• Familiarity with modern data architecture, data governance, or data product principles.
• Experience using JIRA, Confluence, or similar tools to manage product workflows.
• Interest in progressing toward a full product management role overtime.

What's in it for you?

• A Total Rewards program that includes flexible benefits, work/life balance and career development programs and investment and retirement savings plans
• Competitive pay and high-earning potential
• All the tools, training, and team support you need to grow your business and career
• Flexible work/life balance options
• Sophisticated RBCI software tools to boost your productivity and grow your business

RBC Insurance is an organization that succeeds by bringing out the best in its people. You'll be part of a supportive, inclusive team that shares common values – including a fundamental respect for each other. At the heart of this is a commitment to diversity. RBC respects and responds to the many competing and evolving priorities in our lives – so you can focus on what you can do best – putting clients first

Job Skills
Agile Delivery, AI Platforms, Analytics, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian JIRA, Backlog Management, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Data Product Management, Large Language Models (LLMs), Problem Framing, Product Discovery, Product Management, Product Roadmap, Snowflake (Platform), Solution-Oriented, Stakeholder Engagement, User Story

Additional Job Details
Address:
MEADOWVALE BUSINESS PARK, 6880 FINANCIAL DR:MISSISSAUGA

City:
Mississauga

Country:
Canada

Work hours/week:
37.5

Employment Type:
Full time

Platform:
INSURANCE

Job Type:
Regular

Pay Type:
Salaried

Posted Date:

Application Deadline:

Note
:
Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
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*nclusion*
and Equal Opportunity Employment
At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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