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What is the opportunity?
RBC Insurance is seeking an experienced and visionary Director of Product, specializing in Data and Martech, to lead our ambitious efforts in leveraging technology and data analytics to revolutionize our product offerings. This role is perfectly suited for a former CTO or senior technology leader from a startup environment who possesses a deep passion for product innovation. The Director will be at the forefront of driving the strategic vision for integrating advanced data capabilities and marketing technologies into our product suite. This role requires working internally as well as with various vendors / suppliers.
What will you do?
Contributes to the product vision, strategy and overall roadmap of the products being developed.
Responsible for a suite of projects and has product accountability.
Be open-minded and look beyond your stack to solve complex problems
Be open-minded and look beyond existing technology to solve complex problems
Capable for the vetting of product and service architecture and distribution through the digital channels strategy/roadmap, for multiple lines of businesses / channels, while also identifying emerging opportunities and target state technology.
Build the state of the art, highly scalable digital solutions as a strong visionary, business technical lead and contributor across the digital and data team
Develop software components as a hands-on contributor when necessary
Build digital assets and drive scalable vendor solutions and enhancements
Detail potential competitive threats from digital enterprises that are generally considered outside of the traditional realm of competition
Identify, analyze, and scope digital acquisition targets with an understanding of integration requirements
Collaborate with stakeholders involved in digital strategy and digital innovation to develop an IT investment roadmap
Coordinate a strategic plan for leveraging integrated business architecture as part of future state vision
Provide guidance leadership across Insurance technical community in identifying and capitalizing on transformation opportunities
Must have:
10+ years of experience oscillating between business and technology in modern development stacks including common cloud platforms. Can get to details of the technical issues faced by developers and find ways to de-bottleneck development by creating spike solutions, proof of concept development while articulating the ins and outs of the solutions in business language
Strong computer science knowledge – language agnostic, object oriented skills and can be hands on as well as drive small dev teams of 6 to 8 people, can run proof of concept development independently. Strong architecture experience and able to design solutions based on business requirements with available technologies; able to articulate and refine business requirements
Have solid understanding of Finance data, Business management, and technology trends & innovations in the financial services industry
Understanding of IT and Architecture Standards, Methodologies
Strong engineering experience, and able to ensure the speed and quality of deliverables by the team. Strong Agile experience and able to guide the team in delivery process.
Familiar with business casing, business process modelling and API orchestration. Experience with BPMN and DMN and workflow engines such as Camunda. Familiar with Dev Ops, CI/CD, Cloud deployment, and basic infrastructural knowledge to be able to demonstrate and build paths forwards with technology partners.
Has developed interfaces - has worked with third party libraries and integrated those into the solution using event driven architecture
Nice to Have technology experience:
Data Management, Analytics, and Infrastructure:
Data Warehousing: Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake
Customer Data Platforms: Segment, Salesforce Data Cloud, Adobe CDP etc.
Analytics Platforms: Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Amplitude, Mixpanel
Business Intelligence Tools: Tableau, Power BI, Metabase, Looker
Experimentation and A/B Testing: Optimizely, VWO, Google Optimize
Martech:
Marketing Automation: HubSpot, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
CRM Tools: Salesforce, Intercom
Email Marketing Tools: Salesforce, Mailchimp, SendGrid, Litmus
SEO and Content Marketing Tools: SEMRush, Pagespeed Analytics, Google Search Console, Wordpress
CMS: Wordpress, Contentful, Adobe CMS
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.
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Agile Product Development, Communication, Customer Service, Customer Success, Decision Making, Leadership, Long Term Planning, Problem Solving, Teamwork, Time ManagementAdditional Job Details
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